In the eight months since the U.S. Army launched the Occupational Physical Assessment Test, recruiting officials now see the test as a critical tool that was missing from the way the service predicts ...

December is the month when you’re supposed to be getting out of shape. But if you plan to either join the Army or reclassify from a “soft” military occupational specialty, like water treatment ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (March 8, 2016) – Maj. Gen. Anthony C. Funkhouser, commanding general, U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, discusses the occupational physical fitness test during a senior ...

WASHINGTON — The Army began administering the Occupational Physical Assessment Test to all recruits to assess their fitness for military occupational specialties last week. The OPAT also will be used ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 1, 2016) -- The Army currently uses the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, as a predictor of a future Soldier's ability to meet the academic ...

The U.S. Army has launched a new physical fitness test designed to determine if new recruits and soldiers can meet the physical demands of certain jobs such as infantry and armor specialties. The ...