{"id":21447,"date":"2018-11-23T14:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/11\/23\/changes-are-coming-for-the-pentagons-tape-test-and-body-composition-policies\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:47:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:47:33","slug":"changes-are-coming-for-the-pentagons-tape-test-and-body-composition-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2018\/11\/23\/changes-are-coming-for-the-pentagons-tape-test-and-body-composition-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes are coming for the Pentagon\u2019s \u2018tape test\u2019 and body composition policies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon expects to have a decision on changes to the dreaded \u201ctape test\u201d by next summer, potentially overhauling one of the main ways it evaluates service members&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/02\/05\/deploy-or-get-out-new-pentagon-plan-could-boot-thousands-of-non-deployable-troops\/\" target=_blank> fitness<\/a> and body composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than a year the Defense Department has been working with the services on potential changes that could be made to the force-wide policy that dictates how military calculates service members&#8217; body fat composition, which for a generation has mainly involved a tape test that relies on several key measurements of body size and height-weight proportions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tape test has been widely criticized as a method that is inaccurate and unfairly penalizes people with certain body types. Failure to meet the services&#8217; body composition standards can result in involuntary separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That policy is formally known as Department of Defense Instruction 1308.3, \u201cDoD Physical Fitness and Body Fat Programs Procedures.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe department is actively working closely with the services on this issue and we expect to have results we can discuss in late spring or early summer,&#8221; said Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. Carla Gleason. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/10\/11\/more-doctor-visits-more-money-obese-soldiers-may-be-too-expensive-to-keep-army-study-suggests\/\" target=_blank>Body composition <\/a>standards are an important issue for the department, but currently all of the discussions are pre-decisional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2018\/02\/05\/goodbye-tape-test-sweeping-dod-fitness-review-underway\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ARM-fitness.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Goodbye, tape test? 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For example, earlier this year the Army introduced its first new fitness test in 40 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Military Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/02\/05\/goodbye-tape-test-sweeping-dod-fitness-review-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported<\/a> that the Defense Department was considering overhauls for its fitness tests, concerned military personnel wrote in, wondering if the test would account for things such as injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the months since, DoD has refined its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2018\/10\/09\/air-force-eyes-1600-airmen-for-possible-deploy-or-get-out-separation\/\" target=\"_blank\">deployability <\/a>policy to provide exemptions for certain combat injured forces but that review does not give long-term exemptions to personnel who were injured outside of combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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