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Editorial Standards

How the pages on this site are researched, written and kept current — and who is accountable for them.

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How Pages Are Researched

  1. Primary sources firstEvery standard, threshold and table traces to an Army regulation, a Department of Defense instruction or an official Army announcement — not to another website covering the same topic.
  2. Formulas are run, not describedThe circumference equations used in the calculators were checked against the worked examples published in AR 600-9 itself, so the output matches the regulation's own arithmetic.
  3. Uncertainty is stated, not smoothed overWhere sources genuinely conflict, or where the Army has not announced something, the page says so rather than guessing.
  4. Nothing is invented to fill a gapWhere an official scoring scale exists but cannot be verified line by line, the page links to it rather than reproducing a table that might be wrong.
  5. Dates are realThe last-reviewed date on a page changes when the page is actually reviewed, not on a schedule to look fresh.

Corrections

If a figure on this site is wrong or out of date, it gets fixed. Send the page and the correct source through the contact page and the page will be updated, with the reviewed date changed to reflect it.

Scope

This site covers standards and arithmetic. It does not give medical, fitness, nutritional or career advice, and it does not offer training plans or weight-loss guidance. For those, Military OneSource provides free, confidential coaching to service members and their families.

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