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.
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