InBody to Supply Marine Corps with Body Composition Analysis Devices

The U.S. Marine Corps will use health metrics provider InBody's BIA technology to assess Marines' fitness

Decades after implementing service-wide body composition standards to measure Marines' readiness, the U.S. Marine Corps decided to refine their current body composition assessment method using the InBody 770, one of InBody's professional body composition analyzers.

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"The Marines are renowned for their readiness to serve," said Jade Chavez, InBody GSA Specialist. "We're thrilled that InBody devices will provide the Corps with the data they need to meet the Marines' high standards."

Since the 1970s, the Marine Corps has used body composition assessment to track physical capacity for military service, evaluating service members via an abdominal circumference-focused method that uses empirical equations to estimate body fat.

In 1980, the Department of Defense directed other military services to follow the Marines' example, with all the services eventually using a shared set of equations to calculate body composition.