The Army Fitness Test (AFT) is the official physical fitness test of record for all U.S. Army soldiers. Its purpose is to assess readiness for the physical demands of combat and combat-support operations. The five events — lower-body/grip strength (MDL), upper-body muscular endurance (HRP), anaerobic power and multi-task work capacity (SDC), core endurance (PLK), and aerobic endurance (2MR) — were selected as the capacities the Army has determined matter most for deployable readiness.
The tiered pass thresholds reflect the Army's explicit judgment that soldiers holding a combat MOS (21 designated specialties) face elevated physical demands and must meet a correspondingly higher standard (350 points, 70 per event) than soldiers in combat-enabling specialties (300 points, 60 per event). The per-event minimum prevents gaming the total score through extreme strength in one domain compensating for critical weakness in another.
Use the AFT for: Army promotion consideration, retention eligibility, MOS classification, body fat standard exemption (scores 465+), and official readiness determination.
Not appropriate for: general fitness benchmarking (the AFT is calibrated to Army operational readiness, not civilian wellness), cross-service comparison (each service calibrates to its own operational demands), or interchangeably with ACFT scores (ACFT scores recorded before May 31, 2025 remain valid for promotion consideration only through September 30, 2025).
publishingAuthority: U.S. Army · effective 1 June 2025
This scorer implements scoreset_us_army_aft — a U.S. Army-published Score Set on the FITDAT v1.0 Data Specification. It uses five Tests from the FITDAT open library (test_hex_bar_deadlift_3rm, test_hand_release_pushup_max, test_sprint_drag_carry, test_plank_hold, test_2_mile_run) scored against 30 Army-published StandardSets (5 events × 10 age brackets × 3 population standards). The tiered composite logic — 300/350 total minimums with the 60-per-event floor — is declared in the Score Set document itself, not hardcoded into this app. ScoreMyAFT.com is the dedicated home for this Score Set; the broader test directory lives at scoremyfitness.com, which also hosts the ScoreMyCFT companion scorer for the Combat Field Test.