>A 2018 RAND report on health promotion and disease prevention has painted a grim picture of the military’s physical fitness and sleep standards.
>The study, featuring roughly 18,000 randomly selected participants across each of the service branches, showed that almost 66 percent of service members are considered to be either overweight or obese, based on the military’s use of body mass index as a measuring standard.
>While the number of overweight service members is a cause for concern, it correlates with the obesity epidemic plaguing the United States, where, as of 2015, one in three young adults are considered too fat to enlist, creating a difficult environment for recruiters to find suitable candidates for military service.
Holy Jesus! What is that? What the fuck is that? WHAT IS THAT, PRIVATE PYLE?
Ryder Stewart
>barracks kitchen has one stove for 300 soldiers >gas station, Burger King and Popeyes are across the street from the barracks >Boston Market, Charley's, Arby's, and Dominoes are at the PX >dining facility charges $5 for half a chicken breast and peas and carrots
(((gee I wonder why soldiers are fat hmm really makes you think)))
fucking greedy idiots need to kick out the fast food
Ehhh? I thought dining in the chowhall was free? Or is it only free for air Force fags?
Nicholas Morales
It's because the bmi doesn't take muscle into account. Most soldiers should be considered overweight by muscle mass.
Dominic Rodriguez
you can dine for free with a meal card, or get an extra $350 or whatever per month and feed yourself. this option is only available to troops who are not in TRADOC and who don't have a DFAC nearby.
Adam Rodriguez
> Trump keeps us out of WW3 over Syria so our troops become jolly and comfy like Santa Claus > "DRUUUUUMPF!!1!" How did fucking leftist hippies become PRO nuclear war? This is your brain on Trump Derangement Syndrome
Camden Scott
> I'm not obese! I have burger strength!
Robert Garcia
All of them should have regular two-week physical fitness tests done during peace time, if they don't succeed (Meet the standard), they get demoted.
Same for the police.
Caleb Moore
If you seriously think most soldiers are considered overweight because they're lifting too much you are really dumb
Administering a fitness test for a platoon size group takes two hours. That's hourlyrate*groupsize. For nothing. Every two weeks. Even socialist dystopias with 65% tax rate can't afford that shit.
Colton Lewis
Then the fuckin' military should get on with all their taxpayer money and create the pill that solves obesity.
Come on fuckers, I know you can do it.
Joshua Murphy
He's got a point. BMI doesn't take into account relevant information about your body type and so forth. When I was in wrestling in senior year I had my body fat percentage taken at 9-10%
Brayden Harris
kek
Elijah Adams
> Free meth for overweight Marines What could possibly go wrong
Juan Reed
Lots of blood and crazy marines?
Nolan Reed
I'll comment on my unit (army) yes there is a slight overweight issue. What fuels this is the abuse of permanent profiles by poopbags to dodge any physical training and crappy fast food joints being commonplace on bases. Hell the chow halls can't compete unless your saving your money.
Work often has long hours and lots of stress. 80% of members go binge drink on the weekend. Caffeine use is rampant in everyone I've known.
Most people hate the contractual obligations of service and are mostly in to achieve some other goal (Stable pay because of debt/Bill's, family to feed, college GI bill, etc). Everyone goes the easiest path to just get by the work day.
Nowadays with no war, very few units have those enthusiastic captain America troops who enjoy their job or have patriotism.
David Reyes
They use the tape test if you're muscular.
Jack Hernandez
Nope. Standard BMI is age, weight and height. Nothing more.
Joseph Davis
fast food > dfac
if you're infantry you'll be working those extra calories off. if you sit at a desk all day you're going to get fat as fuck.
Tyler Smith
That's most western nations. Germany has been having problems with everyone at all ranks treating the military like a social service instead of a military, so they can't even fight an offensive war. France has barely been able to keep three jet fighters flight-capable at a time, despite owning almost a hundred. All nations are having this problem right now.
Jason Richardson
So Amerifat isn't just a civilian meme, you guys are done for.
You need to do something about your weight problem, THERE'S NO FUCKING EXCUSES M8!
I've been 95kg, fat af, 73 (Still a bit fat down there not obese) or so right now, trying to gain muscle etc.
Why the fuck aren't you doing your part? I'm just a civilian, there's no benefits in it than feeling great.
Gavin Green
The armed forces have become a welfare program for nogs and dykes. You can probably guess who we have to thank for that
Luis Ross
>$10 raw, bleeding half chicken breast with freeze dried, overcooked and unseasoned peas and carrots Fixed. t.airfag.
Michael Campbell
Could this be the death blow? Will future wars be dictated by private military contractors?
Dylan Ortiz
ThSts whst happens when 33 onion layers worth of nonsense to join.
Best most willing killers are all locked up. We are the cucked states of hero lards
Next thing you know the containment strategy in the south china sea is just going to have to involve private firms acting like pirates and privateers like back in the good old carribbean days. Fucking yanks, everyone is relying on them to keep that shit sorted after they gutted Europes military, they ought to at least buy everyone time to catch up, Japan is trying but China is just moving too fast.
Can't believe there's not an anti-fat military culture in the US military like in others.
Jose Morales
yes, they will get rid of 70kgs in two weeks when Israel gonna call for aid.
you niggers have had thirty years since the end of the cold war and the potential removal of nato
Easton Hall
BRAAAAPFFT
Wyatt Green
The US deliberately kept EU nations militaries to a minimum and made itself top dog to stop another WW from happening because if you remember the idea was turning literal fascist nations into liberal democracies and allies. It worked but it wasn't certain the Japan, Germany and Italy would take well to the new system.
Yes with Nato and other things Europe still as a whole has a nice military and was heavily involved in the Middle East but as far as Russia, China, Africa, Middle east etc goes Europe now has to catchup but wasn't really free to do so for a long time.
So despite Trump going around saying nato nations need to catch up to their obligations he's either forgetting or deliberately omitting what the strategy still is since WW2 that now has to change.
Wouldn't be a problem if these fat fucks could just hold China down for long enough because I don't think their economies are doing well enough to re-arm Europe just yet.
Wyatt Williams
urite. I must build up my tolerance to salmonella by continuing my exposure to it. Just like bullets.
Aaron Sanchez
Europe had thirty years to prepare for US withdrawal, especially after the dude who was trying to preserve American preeminence abroad got voted out of office in 1992 and Americans started going full steam on the domestic candidates.
Jordan Richardson
It’s a combination of BMI not taking into account muscle mass and people just being fat
I’ve been taped for height/weight every time for the past year just because I started working out more and got built. I’m not even Arnold hueg, and I’m not even close to fat. I know plenty of guys in the same boat
That being said there are a decent number of fat dudes in my unit
your soldiers don't get free food? is that a joke?
Lucas Adams
They get free food with a meal card. If they don't have a meal card, they get an extra category of pay. They can use the extra pay however they want. Without a meal card, Army dining facilities charged $5.50/meal when I was in.
Jonathan Gonzalez
>not realizing how common salmonella is in poultry
90% of the military are technicians or office workers, they do. Believe you me you wont fund a fatty in any combat arms field.
Colton Morgan
how does that even work? don't you all eat together or are guys without meal cards going to mc donalds or some shit when the others are eating together and why getting ''extra'' pay when at the end you pay for the food anyway and gain nothing from it?
Kevin Perez
>based on the military’s use of body mass index as a measuring standard.
using bmi is fucking retarded for this, you can be shredded and labelled overweight
Alexander Cox
maybe they shouldnt feed them school lunch tier absolute garbage
Caleb Edwards
That would be you body fat percentage.
BMI is weight to height
Caleb Nelson
WHERE IS YOUR BELT? WHERE IS YOUR FUCKING BELT?
Thomas Wilson
>why getting ''extra'' pay when at the end you pay for the food anyway not everyone has equal access to army dining facilities. see my other post >how does that even work? no, we don't all eat together. soldiers in the same company are split into different platoons, these can be working on different missions with different op schedules. not everyone can walk out of their job at the same time. it sounds like you're thinking of basic training, where an entire company of soldiers goes to eat at the same time. that doesn't happen once you get to a line unit, exception being combat arms probably.
yes, guys without meal cards can go wherever they want. guys with meal cards can as well, except they don't get the extra pay. so they're basically giving up a free meal for the option of paying for fast food out of their own pocket.
Justin Cruz
Homeboy my old Infantry company had so many fuckin dudes who could barely pass a PT test it was astonishing.
Parker Mitchell
our soldiers get education about food and the food they get is calculated from smart food guys so that they get all the vitamins n stuff to have the most power possible i think your army is just another way to make big money for a handful of people
