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.