Now The Mail on Sunday can reveal that troops taking an important new fitness test won’t be able to fail it. Three years ago, statistics released under Freedom of Information rules revealed more than 2,400 forces personnel had failed their annual fitness test, including 7.5 per cent of the Army. Figures also showed that almost 10,000 forces personnel had a body mass index of more than 30, officially classing them as obese. An Army spokesman said: ‘Soldiers have to meet demanding fitness requirements and that is not going to change. ‘Anyone failing to meet the Army’s high fitness standards will, as before, have to undertake remedial training.

Source: Daily Mail September 30, 2018 00:28 UTC