Guests: Command Sergeant Major JoAnn Nauman , Command Senior Enlisted Leader of Army Special Operations Command, in conversation with Defense One 's Meghann Myers and Ben Watson. Related reading: " Army establishes new fitness test of record to strengthen readiness and lethality ," published April 21, 2025; " Setting Higher Close Combat Standards for the Army Combat Fitness Test ," via RAND researchers, published Dec 20, 2024; And " Independent Review of the Army Combat Fitness Test ," also via RAND, published Mar 23, 2022.
