Senators urge Pentagon to suspend implementation of Army's new fitness test

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In an Oct. 20 letter to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called the rollout of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) "premature" and said the exam could damage some soldiers' professional prospects.

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