Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Posted on 11/05/2009 4:47:26 PM PST by funblonde
More than a third of American youth of military age are unfit for service, mainly because they are too fat or sickly, the Army Times reports, quoting the latest Pentagon figures.
Most of the rest are too dumb or have used too many drugs to qualify, the study shows.
The report says 35% of the 31 million Americans aged 17 to 24 are unqualified because of physical and medical issues.
"The major component of this is obesity," Curt Gilroy, the Pentagon's director of accessions, tells the Times. "We have an obesity crisis in the country. There's no question about it."
He also said young people, by and large, can't do push-ups.
"And they can't do pull-ups," Gilroy says. " And they can't run."
The Times says the Pentagon gets its data from the Centers for Disease Control, which has found that the percentage of youth 18 to 34 who are considered obese
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Is the Pentagon aware of how this report is going to hurt the children’s self-esteem? < /sarcasm>
I don’t know whether to puke or ROF&LMAO.
Yea, let’s all give them trophies and say they did good.
Only a 3rd? How many in that age group supported 0bama?
The liberals in the education mafia are insuring that potential male candidates for military service are pacifists, feminized and weak-minded. I doubt that, within a few years, the U.S. will be able to win any wars or military conflicts. We’ll be easy pickings for the barbarians.
No doubt this “report” is from the directive of the statists now driving the military. They’d just be quite happy to terminate the entire military. A domestic based force could do just as well, even be bigger than the military (and it would need be, given the 2nd amendment).
>> He also said young people, by and large, can’t do push-ups. “And they can’t do pull-ups,” Gilroy says. “ And they can’t run.”
Then stick their fat asses inside an underground cinderblock bunker in Florida, shove a Predator joystick in their hands, and tell ‘em if they get to 1000 jihadis killed, they get a new “life”.
Damn, that’s gonna give me nightmares.
No problem; Rome solved this problem millenia ago.
Just hire Huns, Goths, and other barbarian mercenaries.
What could go wrong?
Blame high fructose corn syrup. If you are not burning fructose in your muscles and background metabolism as you eat it the liver converts it into belly fat.
The rejection rate for WW2 was similarly high.
That is correct, few can make the grade!!
So...how’s the legalization of pot coming along?
Yo dude, pass me the bowl of radishes and that bottle of ketchup...got the munchies bad, homes.
Yeah, don’t forget 18% have too many kids to serve.......
What’s with that?
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
I’m all four of those...and I’m just fine.
Well the sick kids you can do nothing about....the fat however.....how long is basic training?....well just make it a few weeks longer till they lose the weight.. You know...combine “the biggest loser” with “basic training” and they will get there...
“Yo dude, pass me the bowl of radishes and that bottle of ketchup...got the munchies bad, homes.”
okay...I just barfed! dude...even shaggy and scooby would not eat that!
I suspect that Army basic training is eight weeks. Well, it was that when I took it fifty years ago.
The military won’t accept anyone who has been on Ritalin. That exempts millions of kids who have been on it since pre-K.
“YAWN, aways been that way!!!”
Actually, it hasn’t. The big problem in WWII was that so many young men were too underweight to serve in the military.
That’s why the federal school lunch program was inaugurated.
BINGO!!!
A lot of people who have been on Ritalin and later generation drugs are otherwise fine, many of whom were ordered to take Ritalin for the sin of being healthy, active boys. If the military does a blanket rejection based on Ritalin having been taken, they are denying themselves too many smart and active young men.
The rejection rate!!!
Just a suggestion for the Army. Have the Combat Arms MOS’s and units require for all their soldiers to make the current men’s weight and PT standards. The soldiers in the noncombat units and MOS’s would adapt what is currently women weight and PT standards.
It is stupid to kick out a male cook or clerk who is doing the same job as the female and can run as fast or do the same amount of pushups as the woman but not up to the male standards.
On the other hand combat units and MOS’s do need to have higher standards.
I have been wondering who we are trying to save the country for. I think I am content to let them support me, unfortunately, I will starve. When they can hitch their pants above their butts, we’ll talk.
Audie Murphy wasn’t physically qualified for the Marine Corps.
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