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Military May Relax Recruiting Standards for Fitness and Pot Use

RetiredUSN said:
2400 out of 365,000 enlisted and officers.

Not even close to 10 percent........................geeees.

Please stop..............you are getting more foolish with every post.
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Uhh, maybe you want to read that again
 
cpwill said:
They use tape. It's an amazingly stupid system that will tell you that the act of running three miles causes you to gain 2% body-fat, but that's what they chose.

If a person is "obese" in the Marine Corps, regardless of PFT, they were out. Though they are trying to shift that now, with the new standards (which include more crunches and pull ups for max.)

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I agree. If you can meet the PT requirements why should we care if you're BMI is screwy?
 
cpwill said:
They use tape. It's an amazingly stupid system that will tell you that the act of running three miles causes you to gain 2% body-fat, but that's what they chose.

If a person is "obese" in the Marine Corps, regardless of PFT, they were out. Though they are trying to shift that now, with the new standards (which include more crunches and pull ups for max.)
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Everybody in the Marines knows some guy that's rock solid but fails the weight test. My friend Andy had to go every year to get the calipers test done because he was a short thick guy that used to fight in Tough Man MMA and kickboxing competitions. He said they even made him sit in a tub of water once to measure his bodyfat.

He would always bitch when going away to get his tests and say, "I guess I'm just a huge fatass!" And I would just say, "Lighten up, Nancy. It's a compliment that you have that much muscle that you failed the weight test."

But it was dumb to pay for additional tests when he could have just shown his abs to the corpsman and the corpsman could have said, "Yep, you're ok."
 
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