The Pentagon is shifting from height and weight tables and replacing them with a waist-to-height ratio methodology.

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The U.S. military has officially moved away from long-standing height-and-weight tables and the traditional tape test in favor of a waist-to-height ratio as the primary body composition standard for ...

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