This video highlights how the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division’s Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) program Fort Wainwright, Alaska created a mission-based fitness programming schedule to better integrate fitness training into soldier’s battle rhythm based on their current mission set. H2F staff provides expert care and support pre-mission, during mission, and post-mission. The interviews and H2F footage in this video were captured by the Enterprise Multimedia Center based out of Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia from May 19-22, 2025, and the rest of the footage is acquired though the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS). (U.S. Army video edited by Sgt. 1st Class John Miller)
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The U.S. Army's greatest asset is our people, and, unlike other services, the Army will pause all training for its annual Holiday Block Leave this holiday season. Throughout the next 72 hours, roughly 45,000 U.S. Army Trainees will take to the air and roads this holiday season as the Army kicks off its annual holiday exodus period.
Holiday Block Leave (HBL) is a unique pause in their Initial Entry Training (IET) pipeline during which, from...
In October 2024, the Army established a new Skill Qualification Identifier, or SQI, for Holistic Health and Fitness, or H2F. The new SQI is called the H2F Advisor and is designed to serve as the technical and tactical expert for the H2F System. This SQI is the Army’s latest investment in how the Army prepares Soldiers to optimize their performance, reduce injuries, and improve personal readiness on and off the battlefield.