The Army's Fitness Test Might Be Revamped Yet Again for Gender-Neutral and Job-Specific Standards...

"Army officials interviewed by Military.com said that differentiating based on jobs quickly gets complicated and test developers who had tried to create such standards before the ACFT was put into use couldn't figure out critical logistics, including whether to grade a soldier based on their job title on paper or responsibilities within a unit. For example, someone in combat arms might be in a recruiting position or a non-combat arms soldier might be assigned to a cavalry unit.

Army planners are already in the early phases of developing separate job standards, but only for combat arms troops, while the rest of the force would likely keep the existing scoring standards. Military.com was first to report in October that the service is testing a completely separate gender-neutral fitness test, but exclusively for expert soldier, infantryman and field medical badges."