New Fitness Requirement Applies to Deploying Airmen.

The article focuses on the application of a fitness requirement to Airmen of the U.S. Air Force preparing to attend Army-taught combat skills training (CST) before their deployment to a joint expeditionary taking and combat missions. It mentions that such training is physically demanding due to the heavy protective gear worn and movements to be done by Airmen. It also adds that the fitness assessment will simulate combat scenarios that they may experience in their actual deployment.