[Redcitizen]

First Sgt. Avery Peoples has too much time on his hands.

[Repeal The 17th]

Never had any elevators at any base I was ever at.
Stairs are good exercise.

[Mr Rogers]

Sounds like they ought to ban it Mon-Fri! Too many fat people in the military.

[blueunicorn6]

Running stairs is good exercise.

Helps with coordination.

[Jonty30]

The stairs are also faster.

[CitizenUSA]

It’s a lawful order with a valid military purpose.

[DesertRhino]

Good for him. Making those fatso moonpigs walk upstairs. Well within his rights and responsibility zone.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Or too many fat troops late to formation because the elevator was full.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Also, I rather like that First Sergeant’s reply to the phone call from the press.

[D Rider]

He’s actually right on with this.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

When I was 24, I started up a bituminous coal fired boiler in the high desert in Arizona at 5,000 feet elevation. The unit was 20 stories high and the constructor banned the construction crews from using the elevator. Elevators in such plants are small and slow. On other job sites, I’d see guys waiting for an HOUR to get the elevator up a few floors.

I used to run up those 20 flights of stairs five to ten times a day to work on things and get exercise. My legs were never stronger than during that six months I spent on that job site. A few years back I worked in an office on the fifth floor and I still refused to use the elevator. I trotted up those flights usually two or three times a day. It was a bit harder at age 63 than 24. But stairs are a great way to keep in shape.

[ETCM]

The elevators on all my ships were for aircraft, ordinance or supplies. These snowflakes would have been REALLY offended when E-6 and below had to climb up and down multiple ladders to go around “Officer Country”.

[ealgeone]

The Army's Holistic Health and Fitness doctrine, which outlines the Army's philosophy on how to maintain a soldier's physical well-being, focuses its guidance on a series of complex exercises, nutrition, sleep and mental health care. However, the 244-page set of rules makes a small note that soldiers should take stairs to "decrease sedentary time."

I think I see the problem. It takes 244 pages to tell you how to get in shape?

My HS coaches had a simple approach to this. RUN until they get tired.

[11th_VA]

WTF - never saw elevators in any barracks I ever stayed in

[Gil4]

When reached by Military.com, Peoples only replied, "Don't call me again," and hung up.

Sounds like a reasonable policy and a reasonable answer any time someone from military.com calls.

[Dogbert41]

Oh the humanity! I’d call my Congressman! Stairs, sheesh!

[lurk]

The weird part is that this is a news story. Generally when a 1st Sgt says something that’s the way it’s going to be. And since when is physical fitness not a priority for troops?

[vpintheak]

If you have to keep your soldiers in shape be not allowing them to take an elevator; you got WAY bigger problems.
Another power-mad idiot that gets off on telling people what to do.