What can I do to pass tape one more time before shipping ?

Get used to being short changed on height. I started out 6'4" and had I stayed until 30 years I would have been a leprechaun. Get used to people with bad attitudes strangling you with the tape and and generally screwing with you.

You need to work your neck. Best exercise is really heavy upright rows, low reps, low sets to increase the size of your neck which working to,lose weight around your middle. Some swear by a neck press machine, personally lost size on my neck and strained my neck in a bad way, so I don't recommend it.

I recommend also integrating more weight training. You burn more fat if you have more muscle mass. I'd recommend a book called Body For Life by Bill Phillips.

Hate to tell you man, you'll be fighting for your life the whole time. I did it for 4 years as a cadet and 22years on AD. It got easier once I hit the bracket in my late 20s but this will be a slog until you hit it. The nay Sayers will talk smack only because they are SRMFs that have never been taped. If you want to scare the crap out of a skinny guy simply tape them the way you get taped and they can see how close they are to being chaptered on a day that ends in "y".

Reference AR 600-9 Army Body Composition Program.

Work on your neck size. Get that increased. About 2 days before getting taped, take a good amount (without overdoing it) of colon cleansing drink to drop that particular weight out of the colon. The night before you tape, smear Prep H all over your abdomen, to include love handles, then wrap that entire area with saran wrap (several wrap arounds), then sleep.

I agree with all these suggestions. However, as someone who was taped for his entire career in the Army I recommend concentrating on your neck specifically do whatever exercises you have available. I personally like shrugs and neck harness exercises which served me well in helping others. In fact they are still part of my routine to this day. In regard to waist set a time when you will stop eating and rely on portion control.

One thing I forgot to add was to do stomach vacuums. This exercise trains the transverse abdominis muscle that is your internal “weight belt”. If you do them consistently you can take a few inches of your waist is few weeks. There are videos in YouTube explaining how to do it but basically you have to blow all of the air out of your lungs then suck your belly in a far as you can. Once you do that, hold for at least 30 seconds then release. Repeat this 3-4 times daily. If you do it properly, you will feel a tightness around your belly button region. Think of it as trying to get your belly button to touch your spine.

Ah yes a pain I know well my friend. I’ve been anywhere from 69.5-71 inches depending on who does my height. I’ve had a neck anywhere from 17 (yeah right) to 19 inches depending on who taped it.

True measurements? 18 inch neck and 39 inch waist.

As another person said get used to getting screwed by people who love to be jerks on a tape test.

I would do shrugs. Low reps, heavier weight. Also as another person said rows are good as well as lat pull downs (good for the ACFT leg tuck too).

What are you doing for core workouts right now? I found by doing a lot more planks especially side planks and more core work outs actually will shave a couple of inches off your waist line.

Good luck. I feel your pain!

Unfortunately it is impossible to “spot reduce” body fat. You have to put yourself into a caloric deficit. When you do this, your body will burn fat from all over in predetermined intervals based on your genetics.

While steady state cardio is hard to beat, HIIT is a better bet for fat loss imo. HIIT stands for high intensity interval training. Essentially, you engage in short, intense bursts of exercise for a set period and then rest for a short period. There are a variety of free HIIT workouts available on YouTube.

You cannot target fat loss. Period. You have a frame that will never allow you to be under screening weight and be remotely healthy, so as many others have said, work in your overall fitness so you crush that physical fitness test so there is no doubt. Work on that neck circumference to, in effect, game the system. You seem like your heart and will are in all the right places so I wish you the best and I’m sure you’ll be fine.

Crunches, front, oblique, core, core, and more core. Overhead press, and neck presses.

Work the abs and back don’t just focus on the abs

I think it used to be a ratio between neck and gut. Push your head down and that makes your neck bigger and suck in your gut. That used to work for folks that were close.