Army Height and Weight Standards for 2025

I enlisted in 1975 with a weight waiver (59" at 101) age 17. When I retired, I was 37 yrs at 70" and 128. These standards seem so unfair, because a special forces sfc was shorter than me, and weighed 128 soaking wet. I was out for 6 yrs and still only gained another 4 lbs. Some people just have small frames.

Hello ARMY-PRT, so I am a SM in the Army. I am going to leave my personal information out of this, but I will leave my email if someone wants to take my professional and respectful opinion to possibly make a change to this system. Ill start by saying that I pass height and weight all the time before you assume I'm a failure and complaining. So I am 31 years old, I get my height measured at 72 or 73 and what I mean is I'm 72.something so sometimes I am rounded down sometimes I'm rounded up and this results in me needing to starve for days, not drink water 2 days before height and weight and weight-lift and run and work to pass and make weight at 200 or below. Now I know what your thinking, you are probably asking "why don't you just get taped?" Well I will answer this, I have weighed 204 before and someone did my height and said 72 instead of 73 (205 or below passes 73 at my age) and I failed tape... (I have a flat belly but big sides and a big back and tape I can never pass because of body type). Then I got another look a week later, starved more and I passed weight at 195. Then when I can finally eat again my body goes back to normal weight which is 212-217.

I'm very against this unhealthy unrealistic system to be honest, it is in LaLa land if you think this is a realistic program to expect from every type of person. You make people eat MRE's but at the same time expect this. I believe strongly that the ARMY should revamp the height and weight system and give people more weight to pass weight and then I guess leave the tape system how it is. This is just a very strong opinion I have had for years, I will start a petition if that will help. The ARMY said with the ACFT there changing the height and weight, all you changed was no neck for male just abdomen and no hips for female just abdomen. It made it worse of a system than the old one.

example of what it should be based off of my body type, my age, and my opinion: 31 my height 73 =215 or below my age: 31 my height 72 =210 or below

If you want warrior athletes and muscle, weight comes with that trade... Or people will have to starve and deplete themselves to pass H&W and then just do whatever they can on the ACFT and not care about it.

These standards are ridiculous for active, physically fit humans. For example, no male from 66-67 inches can maintain 170 & 176 lbs and be considered healthy.