The Army Fitness Test (AFT): scoring, the combat standard and the 24 MOS

The five AFT events

Army Directive 2025-06 lists five events:

1. 3-repetition maximum deadlift (MDL), scored by the heaviest successful weight in pounds.
2. Hand-release push-up (HRP), scored by correct repetitions in two minutes.
3. Sprint-drag-carry (SDC), a timed shuttle; faster is better.
4. Plank (PLK), scored by time held in the correct position; longer is better.
5. 2-mile run (2MR), timed; faster is better.

Each event is worth 0 to 100 points, so the total runs from 0 to 500. The ACFT’s standing power throw is gone: the Army’s AFT page says it was removed because of its technical nature and injury risk.

How the scoring tables work

All scores come from one document, the AFT scoring scales file named “AFT_Scoring_Scales_250601,” approved May 15, 2025, and effective June 1, 2025. ATP 7-22.01 (March 12, 2026), the Army’s testing manual, tells graders to convert raw scores with the tables posted on the Army’s AFT site.

Each table is organized the same way:

• Age bands across the top: 17–21, 22–26, 27–31 and so on in five-year steps to 57–61, then “Over 62.”
• Two columns per band: “M|C” for male soldiers and for anyone held to the combat standard, and “F” for female soldiers under the general standard.
• Points down the side, from 100 at the top to 0. Each row shows the raw value you must reach for those points.

Three reading rules matter most:

1. Between two rows, you earn the lower row. Each row is a threshold, so nothing is interpolated between rows. In the 22–26 M|C column, a 15:00 2-mile earns 93 points, because 94 needs 14:54.
2. “---” means no raw value earns that score. In the 22–26 M|C deadlift column, 200 lb earns 71 and 210 lb earns 73; no weight earns 72. A 205 lb deadlift therefore earns 71.
3. Reaching the row counts. A time or weight exactly equal to a row earns that row’s points.

A calculator that rounds a 15:00 run up to 94, or gives a 205 lb deadlift 72 points, is not reading the table as printed. Our Army AFT calculator applies these three rules to every row.

General standard vs combat standard

Army Directive 2025-06 created two standards:

• General standard: scored by sex and age (M|C or F column for your age band). You need at least 60 points in every event. The Army’s AFT page describes this as a total score of 300.
• Combat standard: sex-neutral and age-normed, so everyone uses the M|C column for their age band. You need at least 60 points in every event and a total of at least 350.

The combat standard became the standard for record on January 1, 2026, for the Regular Army, the Active Guard Reserve and Reserve Component soldiers on active-duty orders for more than 60 days, and on June 1, 2026, for other Reserve Component soldiers. The directive says no adverse administrative action was to be taken before those dates; the Army’s AFT page gives January 1, 2026, as the date administrative action could begin.

The Army’s AFT page adds that the combat standard applies to every soldier holding a combat specialty, whatever the assignment. Army Directive 2026-07 adds that evaluation reports will show both pass/fail and the actual points earned on the record AFT, and the AFT page says 120 promotion points remain the maximum for the AFT in semi-centralized promotions, under a revised points table. Passing is not the only number that follows you.

The 24 combat specialties

Army Directive 2025-06 listed 21 combat AOCs and MOSs. Army Directive 2026-07 (April 17, 2026) designated three more, 12D, 89D and 89E, as combat specialties required to meet the AFT combat standard. Its enclosure lists all 24:

The Army’s AFT page (frequently asked questions and timeline) and ATP 7-22.01 still show the original 21. Where they conflict, Army Directive 2026-07 says it controls.

A worked example: one set of results, three ways

Take a 24-year-old (age band 22–26) with these raw results: deadlift 200 lb, 30 hand-release push-ups, sprint-drag-carry 2:00, plank 2:00, 2-mile run 15:00.

• Male soldier, general standard: 382 on the M|C column. Every event is 60 or more, so he passes. The same scores also meet the combat standard (each event 60 or more, total 350 or more).
• Female soldier, general standard: 450 on the F column, a pass.
• Female soldier in a combat specialty: the combat standard uses the M|C column for everyone, so she scores 382, the same as the male soldier, and passes the combat standard.

The combat line is tight at the margin. On the same 22–26 M|C column, 190 lb, 26 push-ups, a 2:05 sprint-drag-carry, a 1:58 plank and an 18:23 run earn 70 points each: 350, a pass. One second slower on the run, 18:24, earns 69 and a total of 349, which fails the combat standard even though every event is above 60.

What 60, 80 and 100 points take

These raw values come straight from the 250601 tables for the two youngest age bands. “---” means the table has no row at exactly 80; the note under the table gives the nearest rows.

Where 80 shows “---”: on the M|C deadlift column in both bands, 240 lb earns 79 and 250 lb earns 81; on the 22–26 M|C run, 17:18 earns 79 and 17:08 earns 81; on the 22–26 F deadlift, 150 lb earns 78 and 160 lb earns 82. The plank rows are the same for both columns. The full chart for every age band is on the AFT calculator page.

How age changes the 60-point line

The tables are age-normed under both standards, so the 60-point minimum eases in older bands. For the 2-mile run and the deadlift:

The 17–21 run line (19:57) is slower than the 22–26 line (19:45): the youngest band is not always the hardest. The combat standard keeps the age bands; only the sex column is fixed at M|C.

What changed from the ACFT

The ACFT tables (dated March 23, 2022, and valid until May 31, 2025) had six events, separate male and female columns, and no combat standard. Comparing the two documents row by row shows why an old calculator can give a wrong answer today:

Army Directive 2025-06 kept ACFT record tests taken before May 31, 2025, valid under the policies in force then, but every record test since June 1, 2025, has been an AFT. Some rows got harder and some easier, so the only safe approach is to score against the 250601 tables, not to adjust an ACFT score.

Record tests, the Combat Field Test and body composition

How often. Under Army Directive 2025-06, soldiers in the Regular Army, the Active Guard Reserve and Reserve Components on active-duty orders for more than 60 days must pass two record AFTs per calendar year, at least 4 months apart, and pass a record AFT within 90 days of a failure. Other Reserve Component soldiers test once per calendar year, at least 8 months apart, with a retest within 180 days of a failure.

After a failure. The Army’s AFT page adds that a soldier who first fails the new standard for record must retest within 90 days (Regular Army, Active Guard Reserve and Reserve soldiers on 60-day orders) or within 180 days (other National Guard and Reserve soldiers). It also says commanders may set the combat standard as a training goal for their units but can’t make it a pass/fail requirement for soldiers outside the designated specialties.

Permanent profiles and alternate aerobic events. Under Army Directive 2025-06, a soldier with a permanent profile takes every event the profile doesn’t prohibit and must earn a “GO” on the alternate aerobic event if one is taken in place of the run. Soldiers in combat specialties must also average 70 points or more on the events they can take: 280 points over four events, 210 over three, 140 over two, or 70 for one. For semi-centralized promotions, they receive 70 points for a GO on the alternate event and for each event the profile prohibits. The GO times are on page 9 of the scoring scales:

A time at or under the listed maximum is a GO. A 5-km row is also on the page; the calculator holds every band for all four alternate events.

The Combat Field Test (CFT). Army Directive 2026-07 added a separate, pass-or-fail test for the 24 combat specialties: seven events in sequence (a 1-mile run, 30 dead-stop push-ups, a 100-meter sprint, 16 sandbag lifts of 40 pounds onto a 65-inch platform, a 50-meter carry of two 40-pound water cans, a 50-meter movement drill, and a second 1-mile run), with no points. The Army’s AFT page says all seven must be done in 30 minutes or less, that diagnostic testing began April 17, 2026, and that testing for record begins April 17, 2027. The CFT doesn’t replace the AFT: soldiers in combat specialties in the Regular Army, Active Guard Reserve and on orders of 365 days or more take one record CFT and one record AFT each year, and other Reserve Component soldiers in those specialties alternate between them year by year.

Body composition. Army Directive 2026-13 (July 1, 2026) made the waist-to-height ratio the only body composition standard: less than 0.55, measured at least twice a year. The height and weight screening tables were discontinued, and the tape test and other body fat methods can’t be used to challenge a ratio. The directive also states that no AFT score exempts a soldier from the standard, and it rescinds Army Directive 2025-17 (Army Body Fat Standard for Army Fitness Test Score). The waist-to-height calculator checks a ratio against the Army rule.

Score yourself in six steps

This is general information, not legal, tax, financial or medical advice. Your test administrator scores the record test with the current table.

1. Pick your column. Combat specialty (one of the 24 codes above): M|C, whatever your sex. Otherwise: M|C if male, F if female.
2. Pick your age band. Use the band for your age on test day; 62 and older use “Over 62.”
3. Score each event. Find the highest row whose raw value you met or beat. For the deadlift, push-ups and plank, more is better; for the sprint-drag-carry and run, faster is better. If your result falls between rows, take the lower row; skip any “---” row.
4. Check the minimum. Every event needs 60 points under both standards.
5. Add the five scores. Under the combat standard, the total must also be 350 or more.
6. Find your next point. For each event, the next row up shows exactly how much heavier, more or faster you need to be.

Next step

Run your own results through the Army AFT calculator. It scores all five events from the 250601 tables, checks both standards, and shows the raw value for your next point in each event.