Army National Guard Sees Challenges In New Fitness Test.

Army National Guard commanders “worry whether America’s 330,000 citizen soldiers will have the time and the drive to master the new, more grueling Army fitness test,” despite efforts to hire nearly 5,000 trainers and buy “roughly $40 million in workout equipment in the next seven months to help its soldiers meet new physical fitness standards.” Army National Guard Lt. Col. Brian Dean, who is responsible for implementing the new test across the Guard, said that for “people who are in those parts of their life where they’re still kinda struggling to make the right time for fitness and do fitness in the right ways – this will feel significant.” Many Guard members “are often focused on their full-time jobs and other commitments.” https://apnews.com/77aac5b315be4e74822279b65c6ecf05