The announcement came a few weeks after the service came up 2,100 pilots short of ... to-height ratio, waist-to-hip, hip-to-knee and more," the service has stated. The Air Force also measured ...

The Air Force will allow recruits to have a greater percentage of body fat in an effort to reach more Americans as the service expects to fall short of ... means meeting the waist-to-height ...

He fell short by inches, he said, exceeding the Air Force's maximum waist measure of 39 inches. "I failed to meet the waist measurement component of the physical fitness standard," he said.