Sailors’ careers will no longer be over if they fail back to back fitness tests, according to updated U.S. Navy policy. Now, instead of automatic marks on their annual evaluations, sailors’ fitness ...

Boatswain's Mate Seaman Apprentice Esau Arellano, assigned to the guided-missile destroyer Ralph Johnson, keeps physically fit while underway on Aug. 4 in the Arabian Gulf. (MC3 Anthony Collier/Navy) ...

The Navy is giving sailors three more months to complete mandatory physical fitness tests in 2023. The window for the formerly twice-a-year test, now just once annually, opens Navy-wide on Feb. 1 and ...

When taking swim tests for Navy Special Warfare or special operations, you must use underwater recovery strokes. Acceptable strokes for the entrance exam are the elementary sidestroke, the ...