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Military Circumference Measurement Analysis

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Summary: In this article taken from The Journal of Military Medicine, Vol. 180, January 2015, it goes into details of the current method for conducting the Navy’s body composition assessment. It also touches on the history it’s inception and the common practice for other branches. The end goal of this article is to point out its flaws and make recommendations for a new system. Most sailors believe the current method is unreliable. In the article they propose using a single circumference measurement as a single source indicator to measure an individual military service member’s body composition. The military uses this information not to just single out overweight people but also as an indicator of someone’s well being and make them aware of …show more content…

This revision created a tiered system with body fat percentages. This new procedure was almost too strict and needed to be adjusted again in 2002. All branches of service use some sort of body fat testing. The Marines were the first one to implement one using circumference measurements. The Army used skin fold testing which proved to be highly inaccurate and took too much training for a soldier to become proficient at it. The Air Force also used a circumference measurement but optioned to use a single abdominal measurement in their prediction method. They believed that abdominal circumference is a greater indicator of overall health. The Navy also adopted the circumference method due to its ease of being used while out at sea or deployed as well as its to become proficient at measurements in a limited amount of time. The author suggests that the single measurement be taken at the navel which is already part of the current circumference testing and therefore would require no additional training. Since this is a greater indicator of overall health and more reliable it would allow the Navy to retain more members. This article also address that an abdominal circumference measurement be taken regardless whether the service member is in standards or not to assess them for

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