The Navy is nixing the postpartum “wellness” physical fitness assessment, or PFA, that new mothers in the fleet had been taking in recent years after giving birth, per the recommendation of the Navy ...

The Navy intends to carry out the Pentagon’s mandate that all troops take two fitness tests per year, said the service’s top petty officer.

The Navy will conduct a single physical fitness assessment cycle for calendar year 2024 – just like it did in 2023. Historically, two cycles are conducted each calendar year, but that changed in March ...

The Navy physical fitness assessment includes a body composition assessment (BCA) and physical readiness test (PRT). It is conducted twice each year for active-duty and reserve sailors. It also is ...

A new software program that tracks Navy sailors’ physical fitness tests arrived just in time for this year’s testing season, according to the Navy. A delayed software delivery pushed the Physical ...

Boatswain's Mate Seaman Apprentice Esau Arellano, assigned to the guided-missile destroyer Ralph Johnson, keeps physically fit while underway on Aug. 4 in the Arabian Gulf. (MC3 Anthony Collier/Navy) ...

The Navy is giving sailors three more months to complete mandatory physical fitness tests in 2023. The window for the formerly twice-a-year test, now just once annually, opens Navy-wide on Feb. 1 and ...

SAN DIEGO (May 30, 2013) Sailors assigned to Southwest Regional Maintenance Center perform the two-minute push-up test as part of the fiscal 2013 cycle one Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA). The PFA ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jim McNally was hoping to keep it a secret. After nearly four decades as a physical education ...

Sailors assigned to Navy Recruiting District Philadelphia participate in the Navy’s bi-annual physical readiness test at Naval Supply Activity Philadelphia Fitness Center on Oct. 24, 2019. US Navy ...

Jim McNally was hoping to keep it a secret. After nearly four decades as a physical education instructor and boxing coach at the Naval Academy, McNally was hoping to ride off into the sunset without ...