Capt. Zachary Hicks, an urgent care physician with the 374th Medical Group, works on his app, Military Fitness Score, through his Apple Vision Pro in a coffee shop at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 8, 2026. (Marc Castaneda/Stars and Stripes)
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — An Air Force physician has developed a mobile app that combines physical fitness standards across the armed forces, allowing service members to calculate scores, track progress and build training plans from a single platform
Capt. Zachary Hicks, an urgent care physician with the 374th Medical Group in western Tokyo, created Military Fitness Score after becoming frustrated with the separate calculators, regulations and training re
“I wanted all of the branches to be in one app,” he told Stars and Stripes during a July 8 interview at Yokota. “Why do we have a different app for every branch? That was the first thing to solve.”
The app incorporates fitness standards for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Marine Corps. Users enter their service branch, age, gender and fitness results, then record practice, diagnostic or official tests
Military Fitness Score charts performance over time, tracks individual events such as running and pushups, and lets users set a target score and upcoming test date. It then analyzes their results and recommends which areas to emphasize in physical training
Hicks said he wanted the app to do more than calculate a score
“I wanted to help people actually get to their goals on PT, especially with the new standards,” he said
Capt. Zachary Hicks, an urgent care physician with the 374th Medical Group, works on his mobile app, Military Fitness Score, in a coffee shop at Yokota Air Base, Japan, July 8, 2026. (Marc Castaneda/Stars and Stripes)
The free app launched on July 16 and is available for both Apple and Android devices
Military Fitness Score launched six months after the Air Force introduced updated physical fitness assessment standards on Jan. 6 as part of its return to twice-yearly testing
The app also includes a tool for unit fitness managers, who can use the app to monitor readiness, schedule tests and track progress across a unit. Service members may export their fitness data, as well
Capt. Aliaksei Krasouski, an urgent care nurse and fitness manager with the medical group, spent several weeks beta testing the app
Krasouski said during a July 30 interview that the platform could reduce paperwork by replacing binders and printed instructions with a centralizedos
“The main takeaway is that you have everybody’s information,” he said. “You can send them reminders for upcoming fitness tests at a click of a button.”
Military Fitness Score is not Hicks’ first app. He has also developed applications for coffee enthusiasts and photographers tracking business finances
Hicks said the projects reflect the same approach he uses in medicine: identify a problem, study it and develop a practical solution
“I started creating apps to literally fill those gaps and just do what I wanted them to do,” he said. “It’s something I personally wanted to do, and I couldn’t find an app to do it, or the apps that are out there didn’t do it correctly or didn’t do it all the way.”
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Marc Castaneda
Marc Castaneda
Marc Castaneda is a reporter and photographer working out of Yokota Air Base, Japan. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 2011 and is an alumnus of the Syracuse Military Photojournalism Program.
