Army Height and Weight Calculator

This page used to be a lookup in the Army's height and weight screening tables. Those tables were rescinded on 7 July 2026 by Army Directive 2026-13: scale weight no longer decides, triggers, or excuses anything in Army body composition. What your height decides now is a different number — the maximum waist you can record and still meet the waist-to-height ratio standard of below 0.55.

Enter your height above and get that number, with the full chart below. The old screening tables are preserved as history on the retired methods page.

Maximum Waist by Height Calculator

Enter your height and get the number that replaced the old screening tables: the maximum waist you can record at that height and still meet the waist-to-height standard. The full chart for every height from 58 to 80 in is below — the same chart published canonically on the WHtR chart page. To check your actual waist against it, use the WHtR calculator.

Unofficial estimate. This site is not affiliated with the U.S. Army or the Department of Defense, and no result here is an official determination — only your unit's assessment decides whether you meet the standard.

How it's calculated

The maximum waist is pure arithmetic from the standard itself. The boundary at your height is 0.55 × height — but a recorded ratio must stay below 0.55, and waists are recorded in half-inch steps (each official measurement is rounded down to the nearest half inch, per HQDA EXORD 182-26, Annex A). So the maximum recorded waist is the largest half inch strictly below 0.55 × height. At 70 in: 0.55 × 70 = 38.5, and the largest half-inch step below that line is 38 in — which is exactly the figure in the official Figure B-1 screening table. Metric heights are converted to inches for the calculation and the result converted back.

The height and weight tables were rescinded

For decades, every Army body composition assessment started the same way: height and weight compared against Table B-1 of AR 600-9 — a maximum screening weight for every height, sex and age group. At or under it, you were done. Over it, you were taped, and the tape decided. The table was never a standard in itself, but it structured the whole program.

Army Directive 2026-13 abolished that structure on 7 July 2026. There is no screening step anymore, because there is nothing left for it to screen for: the tape test it triggered was rescinded in the same directive, and the waist-to-height measurement that replaced it is applied to every Soldier directly, at least twice a year. Your weight is not compared to a table at any point. This page keeps its name and URL because Soldiers still search for it — but the calculation it now performs is the one the current standard actually uses: height in, maximum waist out.

The historical tables have not been deleted from this site; they have been moved. If you need Table B-1 to interpret an old counseling statement, a prior enrollment, or a historical worksheet, it is reproduced in full — labeled as rescinded history — on the retired methods page.

Reading your maximum waist

Your maximum waist is a boundary, not a target. A recorded waist exactly at the maximum meets the standard with zero room: one half-inch step up and the ratio records 0.550 or above. Soldiers who plan around the line should treat a few tenths of margin as the practical goal — abdominal measurement moves with time of day, meals and hydration by enough to matter at a boundary this tight, which is also why the official procedure takes three measurements and averages them.

Compare your maximum with your actual waist using the waist-to-height calculator, which applies the recording rules to your own numbers and shows your margin in inches. And remember the direction of the arithmetic: height is the lever you cannot change, so the chart also shows what an inch of height is worth — roughly half an inch of waist per inch of height, all the way down the table.

Sources

The maximum-waist figures on this page are computed from the standard set by Army Directive 2026-13 (waist-to-height ratio below 0.55), announced in the Army.mil article "The full measure: The Army's new WHtR standard", and they reproduce the official screening table (Figure B-1) in HQDA EXORD 182-26, Annex A, which this calculator's values were checked against row by row. The Army Resilience Directorate's ABCP page is the official program page; the rescission of the AR 600-9 screening tables is also covered by FEDweek and AUSA.

Maximum waist by height (58–80 in)

Height (in)	Maximum waist (in)	Recorded WHtR at that waist
58	31.5	0.543
59	32	0.542
60	32.5	0.541
61	33.5	0.549
62	34	0.548
63	34.5	0.547
64	35	0.546
65	35.5	0.546
66	36	0.545
67	36.5	0.544
68	37	0.544
69	37.5	0.543
70	38	0.542
71	39	0.549
72	39.5	0.548
73	40	0.547
74	40.5	0.547
75	41	0.546
76	41.5	0.546
77	42	0.545
78	42.5	0.544
79	43	0.544
80	43.5	0.543

Maximum recorded waist whose waist-to-height ratio stays below 0.55, by height — the screening table published as Figure B-1 of HQDA EXORD 182-26, Annex A. Waists are recorded in half-inch steps (each measurement rounded down), so the maximum is the largest half inch under 0.55 × height. Heights are recorded to the nearest half inch; the chart lists whole inches — for a half-inch height, take the maximum halfway between the neighboring rows or use the calculator.

Worked examples

Example 1 — 6 ft tall. At 72 in, the boundary is 0.55 × 72 = 39.6 in. A waist must record below that line, and waists record in half-inch steps, so the maximum recorded waist is 39.5 in (recorded ratio 0.548).

Example 2 — 62 in. 0.55 × 62 = 34.1 in; the largest half-inch waist below the line is 34 in (recorded ratio 0.548). Notice the pattern down the chart: each additional inch of height buys roughly half an inch of waist.

Related calculators

To check your own waist against your maximum, run the Army WHtR calculator on the homepage.

Frequently asked questions

What is the maximum waist for a 5 ft 10 in (70 in) soldier?

38 inches. The boundary is 0.55 × 70 = 38.5 in, and because the recorded ratio must stay below 0.55 and waists record in half-inch steps, the maximum recorded waist is the half-inch step under the line: 38 in (recorded ratio 0.542). At 38.5 in the recorded ratio is exactly 0.550 — which does not meet the standard.

Is there still a maximum screening weight I have to be under?

No. The AR 600-9 screening tables — maximum and minimum weights by height, age and sex — were rescinded by Army Directive 2026-13 on 7 July 2026. There is no weight at which you automatically pass, and no weight that triggers anything. Body composition is decided by waist-to-height ratio alone.

Does my weight matter at all now?

Only for purposes outside the body composition standard. Soldiers are still weighed for other administrative and medical reasons, but the scale no longer decides, triggers, or excuses any part of the ABCP. A heavy, muscular Soldier with a waist under the maximum meets the standard in full; a light Soldier over the maximum waist does not.

What if I am taller than 80 inches?

The same rule extends: the maximum is the largest half-inch waist below 0.55 × your height. The calculator above applies it at any height — at 82 in, for example, the maximum is 44.5 in. The printed chart stops at 80 in because that is where the official Figure B-1 table stops.

Where did the old height and weight standards page go?

You don't have to be. The height and weight page you may remember — screening-weight lookups and the full Table B-1 — was merged into this page when the tables were rescinded. The historical tables themselves are preserved, clearly labeled as history, on the <a href="/old-tape-test-calculator/">retired methods page</a>.

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Last verified: 26 October 2026