The Navy is nixing the postpartum “wellness” physical fitness assessment, or PFA, that new mothers in the fleet had been taking in recent years after giving birth, per the recommendation of the Navy ...

Sailors with a physical fitness assessment failure on their record will receive a clean slate that will allow them to remain in the service, under a new Navy policy unveiled Thursday. The shift is ...

The Navy has a new message for tens of thousands of sailors who’ve struggled to work on their fitness: The service rolled out a sweeping grace policy for physically unsat sailors Dec. 21, announcing ...

Sailors are getting new incentives to stay in shape. The Navy announced June 20 that those sailors who perform in the top tier of the service’s bi-annual physical readiness test will be exempt from ...

Fitness amnesty is here — but it comes with strings attached. Sailors facing separation for three physical fitness assessment failures in four years, and those who are one failure away from separation ...

The Navy announced several changes June 20 to its Physical Readiness Program in NAVADMIN 141/17, including an incentive for Sailors to validate one physical readiness test (PRT) each year based on ...

The Navy’s single 2021 Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) Cycle starts July 1 and will continue until the end of the calendar year. Navy personnel officials confirmed the resumption of testing while ...