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Senate Subcommittee Seeks Details on DOD Review of Close-Combat Physical Standards
Summary
Senators asked service leaders how they are meeting a Defense Department review to adopt uniform, occupation-driven physical standards for close-combat specialties; services said they are developing or have finalized tests for affected occupations and will deliver analyses to the department.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee questioned military personnel leaders on June 1 about a Defense Department-ordered review to standardize physical and combat-related fitness requirements for close-combat occupations, a review the committee said should reflect operational demands rather than representational targets.
“Secretary [of Defense] ordered a 60-day review of military combat armed standards to ensure that everyone who filled these roles was held to the same equal standard,” Chairman Tommy Tuberville told the witnesses and…
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