Army MOS Physical Requirements

The 24 Army combat specialties

Army Directive 2026-07 lists these specialties in its enclosure 2. The list covers officers and warrant officers as well as enlisted Soldiers, and the directive added Army Diver and the two Explosive Ordnance Disposal specialties to it.

Source: Army Directive 2026-07, enclosure 2 (titles as printed). "Added 2026" marks the three specialties its para 4b(2) added.

If your MOS or area of concentration (AOC, the officer equivalent) is not on this list, you test on the general standard. The Army AFT standards page has the points tables for both standards.

What the combat standard asks

The combat standard uses the same five events as the general standard: the 3-repetition maximum deadlift, hand-release push-ups, the sprint-drag-carry, the plank and the 2-mile run. Each event still needs 60 points. The difference is the total, 350 instead of 300, and the table: the Army scores every Soldier in a combat specialty on the column the scoring tables mark M|C, the one men use, for their age group.

Soldiers in combat specialties have had to meet the combat standard since 1 January 2026 in the Regular Army, the Active Guard Reserve and the Reserve Components on active duty orders of more than 60 days, and since 1 June 2026 in the rest of the Reserve Components. The Army can reclassify or reassign a Soldier in a combat specialty who meets the general standard but not the combat standard.

The only 70 in Army fitness policy is for Soldiers in a combat specialty with a permanent profile: they must average 70 points across the events their profile allows.

The Combat Field Test for combat specialties

Army Directive 2026-07 created the Combat Field Test for Soldiers in the 24 combat specialties. It has no points. You complete seven events in a row, in uniform and boots, and pass or fail on your total time: 30 minutes or less, the same standard for every age and sex.

• 1. 1-mile run
• 2. 30 dead-stop push-ups
• 3. 100-meter sprint
• 4. 16 lifts of a 40-pound sandbag onto a 65-inch platform
• 5. 50-meter carry of two 5-gallon water cans (40 pounds each)
• 6. 50-meter movement drill: 25-meter high crawl and 25-meter 3 to 5 second rush
• 7. Second 1-mile run

Source: Army Directive 2026-07 para 4a(3).

Regular Army Soldiers, the Active Guard Reserve and Reserve Soldiers on active duty orders of 365 days or more take one Combat Field Test and one AFT for record each year. Other Reserve Component Soldiers in combat specialties alternate, one test per calendar year. The Combat Field Test does not replace the AFT.

For the first year after the directive, a failed Combat Field Test brings no administrative action. After that, a Soldier who fails gets flagged, goes into reconditioning and must retest within 90 days (180 days for Reserve Component Soldiers who are not on long active duty orders). Failing the retest starts reclassification. Enlisted Soldiers who fail two in a row can be separated, and officers eliminated, if they cannot or will not move to another specialty.

Special operations entry tests

Some Army jobs add a fitness test before selection. The 75th Ranger Regiment gives a pre-RASP fitness test before its Ranger Assessment and Selection Program; the Army Ranger RASP page lists its events.