“…It is important to emphasize that swimmers, divers, and marines that did not meet BC Mexican Navy standards at the beginning of their training courses, but were in the process of improving physical fitness and BC during the training, could be able to excel in naval-relevant tasks, which would make it inappropriate to exclude them from naval services. Additionally, it is necessary to implement tests focused on evaluating other important aspects, in addition to those already evaluated by the Mexican Navy (aerobic conditioning, muscle strength, and endurance, and body composition) such as: flexibility, muscular power and agility, balance, coordination, speed and time of reaction (Nindl et al, 2015); finally, it should be considered to include anthropometry measures in the Annual Medical Exam to assess body composition to correctly classify military personnel with overweight and for future naval population studies (Shams-White et al, 2020) as well as to explore other measurement methods as alternative diagnostic criteria to assess body composition (Agsalda-Garcia et al, 2020;Baran et al, 2019;Zhanga et al, 2019).…”