Last updated: September 9, 2026
The Army Fitness Test (AFT), formerly the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), became the Army's test of record on June 1, 2025. This page covers the current event list, the pass/fail structure confirmed by the Army, and how an AFT score relates (or doesn't) to body composition standards today.
Does My AFT Score Affect My WHtR?
No, not since July 2026. Army Directive 2026-13 fully decoupled fitness test performance from body composition assessment. A high AFT score does not exempt a Soldier from a waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) check, and a WHtR result has no bearing on AFT scoring. The two are evaluated completely independently. Soldiers must pass each on its own terms. If you're checking where you stand on body composition, use the Army WHtR Calculator directly; nothing on this page substitutes for that.
Rollout Timeline
The AFT name change and initial rollout began June 1, 2025, when it replaced the ACFT as the test of record. The updated scoring standards described on this page (the 350-point combat / 300-point combat enabling structure) took effect for Soldiers in combat military occupational specialties on January 1, 2026 for the active component, and June 1, 2026 for the Army Reserve and National Guard. If you tested before your component's effective date, your record may still reflect an earlier scoring structure; check with your unit for which standard applies to your most recent test.
The Five AFT Events
The AFT consists of five events, performed in sequence. This is one fewer than the prior ACFT: the Standing Power Throw was dropped when the test was updated. (For the test before both, see the history of the Army PFT.)
- 3-Repetition Maximum Deadlift (MDL): Three continuous repetitions of a trap-bar deadlift, measuring lower-body strength and power.
- Hand-Release Push-Up (HRP): Upper-body muscular endurance: lower to the ground, release hands to the sides, push back up.
- Sprint-Drag-Carry (SDC): Five 50-meter shuttles combining a sprint, sled drag, lateral shuffle, loaded carry, and sprint. See the sprint-drag-carry guide for lane setup and pacing.
- Plank (PLK): A timed forearm plank measuring core strength and stability.
- 2-Mile Run (2MR): Aerobic capacity and cardiovascular endurance, run on a track or approved course. See the Army 2-mile run standards.
Soldiers with an approved permanent profile that prohibits running may be eligible for an alternate aerobic event (walk, bike, swim, or row). Alternate events are scored Go/No-Go rather than on the 0–100 point scale used for the other events.
AFT Passing Standards
Every Soldier must score at least 60 points in every event: no exceptions, no averaging one event's strength against another's weakness. Beyond that floor, the total-score requirement depends on MOS category:
- Combat specialties: a sex-neutral, age-normed standard requiring a total of at least 350 points.
- Combat Enabling specialties (support, logistics, cyber, medical, administrative, and similar roles): a sex- and age-normed standard requiring a total of at least 300 points.
With five events at a maximum of 100 points each, the maximum possible total is 500. Which category applies to you (Combat or Combat Enabling) is determined by your military occupational specialty (MOS), not by personal choice, so confirm your category with your unit if you're unsure before using the calculator above.
A Note on the Calculator Above
This calculator converts raw performance into points using the Army's own AFT Scoring Scales (approved 15 May 2025, effective 1 June 2025). Enter what you actually lifted, ran and held, along with your age and MOS category, and it returns your points for each event plus your total.
Those tables list a required performance for every point value from 100 down to 0, separately for each of the ten age groups. They print two columns per age group: one for males and for every Soldier in a combat specialty (the combat standard is sex-neutral, so it uses this same column), and one for females in combat-enabling specialties. The calculator awards the highest point value whose printed performance you meet or beat. Some point rows are blank in the published tables. A deadlift, for instance, moves in ten-pound steps, so not every point value has a weight against it. A result landing between two printed rows earns the lower row's points, exactly as a grader would score it.
One caveat worth stating plainly: your official score of record is the one entered in DTMS. This tool reproduces the published tables so you can see where you stand before a record test, not to replace that record.
Training Safely for the AFT
Improving your AFT score is a training problem, not a weight-cutting problem: nothing about AFT performance is improved by rapid weight loss, dehydration, or crash dieting, and those approaches will actively hurt your deadlift, sprint-drag-carry, and run times. Sustainable strength training, adequate protein and recovery, and consistent practice of each event's specific movement pattern are what actually move your score.
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