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WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The Department of the Air Force announced physical fitness assessments will now resume April 2021 and will no longer include the waist measurement component. To ensure social distancing practices remain in place during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and to give Airmen and Space Professionals time to prepare, testing was delayed from October to January and is now further delayed to April. While the waist measurement is permanently removed from the assessment, height and weig...

By ERICA EARL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 10, 2020 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Airmen who were charged for leave while on mandatory coronavirus quarantine may have those days restored, Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne Bass said Monday. The Marine Corps will also reimburse that tim...

Investigations will be done in the future. we have effectively bypassed the haystack and zoning in to needle. which is unprecedented in accident investigations. however, we do need to maintain this that element of cautious optimism, yesterday, during our chief master houstons press conference, i was optimistic and having heard what the air marshal said today, im more optimistic than cautious and theres reasons for that. at least two to three days to go, having spoken to commander william marks e...