US Military Rolls-Back "Fitness" Requirements
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All on Wed Oct 4 23:34:00 2023
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Yep - almost nobody can meet the current standard.
Once upon a time a lot of recruits were farm boyz or
others who had lived a physically-challenging life,
macho-boyz.
Well, there aren't nearly as many of those now, and
only so many have any inclination to join the military.
SO ... it is necessary to revise entry standards or
there won't BE a US military. Go ahead, try to draft
them - it'll be far more trouble now than it's worth.
Officers will spend so much time watching their own
backs that they won't have time to watch the Chinese
or Russians or NK or Iran. Just sayin' ... you know
it's true, 'American character' ain't what it used
to be. Closer to Thug-ism.
Build them up, build them right, AFTER induction.
The US military needs big aggressive muscle-guys
(and some really scary gals kinda fall into that
category too) AND needs 'nerds' to run all the tech.
Let's get real. Work with what we've got or nothing
is going to work AT ALL and our numerous enemies WIN
by default. That'd be a shameful end.
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