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Army scraps height-and-weight tables in favor of waist-to-height assessment

The Army scrapped its height-and-weight tables and tape test in favor of a semiannual waist-to-height measurement, the ...

Army abandons height and weight table for new body composition measure

U.S. Army soldiers will no longer be judged based on a height and weight table, rather on a waist to height ratio as a measure of body composition, according to officials in a statement Tuesday. If a ...