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Police and the FBI are hunting for a bank robber disguised as an airman who can’t pass the tape test. Kansas City authorities say what appears to be “a heavy-set woman” wearing an Air Force PT jacket and pants combo is the suspect behind a bank robbery and an attempted bank robbery on Monday in Missouri, Fox4KC reports. The suspect was also seen wearing a winter-style Skull cap, dark sunglasses, black gloves and carried a laptop-style black bag. The suspect reportedly walked up to a teller at a Capitol Federal Savings inside of a Price Chopper supermarket in the Northland…

Air Force Times wants to know: How’s the PT test going? How has the PT test changed for you since the instruction was updated in October? Is the new waist tape rule tougher than the old one? If you’ve failed the waist measurement, have you been referred to the BMI measurement? If you’ve also failed BMI, what’s the next step for you? What components of the PT test – situps, pushups, waist measurement, run – have been the most challenging for you? Sound off below or email Oriana Pawlyk at opawlyk@airforcetimes.com. Your comments may be used in an upcoming Air Force…

Even with an alternate measurement for those who fail the waist measurement component of the physical fitness test, airmen are still sounding off. “They really gotta make it all difficult,” Rhonda J Garza said in a Facebook post. “Use science. We are not all built the same. [But it] doesn’t mean we are not healthy.” Starting Oct. 1, airmen who do not meet the waist measurement requirements but pass the pushup, situp and run components of the PT test will be measured using the Body Mass Index taping guidance outlined in Defense Department instructions. Airmen who pass the BMI standard…

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