The Navy intends to carry out the Pentagon’s mandate that all troops take two fitness tests per year, said the service’s top petty officer.
Sailors, rejoice! The much-despised yellow (er, “gold”) Navy PT uniform is going the way of bell-bottom trousers. Starting in October, sailors can purchase the Optional Physical Training Uniform at ...
The Navy's recruiting slogan is on the back of the service's new PT shirt. (Mark D. Faram/Staff) The days of the Navy’s bright yellow physical training uniform shirt and shorts — in service for about ...
The Navy has released a series of updates to the uniform policy and new uniform initiatives, which include the news that sailors will have access to a new physical training uniform and safety boots ...
150508-N-ME988-165 GREAT LAKES, Ill. (May 8, 2015) Hospitalman Shawnee Van Damme, left, an assistant command fitness leader at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC), provides ...
Navy PT is often done with the limited space on a ship's deck. A recent report found that the service has more overweight troops than the other branches. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ben ...
The Navy is giving sailors three more months to complete mandatory physical fitness tests in 2023. The window for the formerly twice-a-year test, now just once annually, opens Navy-wide on Feb. 1 and ...
The Navy has announced that it will resume its biannual physical fitness assessment, or PFA, program in July after a break of more than a year due to COVID-19. The service has not conducted a PFA ...
A Navy hospital corpsman suffered a “heat-related incident” while taking part in unit physical training on July 16, a report from the Navy Safety Center reads. (Sgt. Melanye Martinez/Marine Corps) A ...
Naval experts on Wednesday confirmed wreckage found recently in the South Pacific by noted undersea explorer Robert Ballard must be that of John F. Kennedy’s famed World War II torpedo boat PT 109.