The Navy officer-led NASA Crew-8 mission successfully blasted off Sunday. The Navy departed from two annual PFA cycles in July 2021. Sailors previously completed the so-called wellness physical fitness assessment six to nine months after giving birth. The sea service continues to test the possibilities of placing mobile missile cells aboard littoral combat ships. Obesity is often cited as one of the significant challenges to military recruiting. The first- and second-place winning pilots likely crashed at the National Air Race Championships, possibly because of a blind spot, glare or loss of focus. DoD is weighing the use of calculators on the ASVAB. No two services can agree on where to measure a service member’s waist when deploying the hated, but hard-to-eliminate tape test. This was the first Minuteman III test conducted from an airborne control center on a Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft since August. The newest branch of the armed forces is betting a more holistic approach to health can be smarter than the usual focus on annual testing. Load More