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Testing a new generation of soldiers
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Marilyn Sharp, principal investigator for U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (left), observes volunteers as they perform a test at Newman Fitness Center on Fort Stewart June 8. The tests are designed to determine whether a new recruit is qualified for specific military occupations. - photo by Photo by Cailtin Kenney
The U.S. Army is working to determine who is best-qualified for its most physically demanding jobs, and Fort Stewart soldiers have volunteered to help researchers design tests for future recruits. “What’s going on is we are trying to develop a physical screening test for high-physical-demanding occupations in the Army,” Jack Myers said, a lead planner for the Soldier 2020 program at Training and Doctrine Command. Currently, the only way to know which occupations are available to recruits is from the score they receive after taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, test.
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