The bipartisan group that penned the letter is urging the Pentagon to create a strategy to address the growing crisis. “Without coordinated action, these trends pose a significant threat to the future of the all-volunteer force,” the letter said.
Identifying some of the same trends, Navy Recruiting Command chief Rear Adm. Dennis Velez recently separately told Military.com that making making sure “our children are healthier” is urgently needed to divert a national crisis.
Certain fitness and weight standards are required to even attempt to enter the armed services, with requirements determined by the particular branch – with the Marine Corps maintaining the strictest entry requirements.
Further the head of the Marine Corps recruiting was also quoted as follows:
Maj. Gen. Jason Bohm, the head of Marine Corps Recruiting Service, said far fewer than 30% of young people are eligible to serve in that branch.
“If you break it down further into those skill sets, intelligence level, and the physical ability level, those that we’re looking toward bringing into the Marine Corps… quickly decreases to about 7%,” he said.
“That’s enormously challenging.”
For years the bipartisan group “Mission: Readiness” has highlighted the lack of health among America’s youth, potentially impacting national security on a long-term basis:
For the foreseeable future the trend is likely to continue, given how the pandemic related lockdowns and social distancing orders for much of the past year have often resulted in canceled youth sports leagues, a reduction in social outdoor activities, and people generally being shut in their homes for longer periods.
hahahahaha Great Khan say that long time ago….most fat Amerikan are mamtu….too fat and toooo stoopid…Jew make them more dumb with Hollywood and burger king,,,hahhahahaha mishi mushu….
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Holy smokes!!!!! Out of a perverted sense of curiosity I have a question: “What is the actual tonnage of this amphibious beached whale?” Let me guess, he’s also a tank commander who can’t walk or waddle too far because of bad feet. He must create instant fear when he enters a mess hall. I see a future as a sumo wrestler for this German Maus tank wannabe.
They fight inside as sjw ,BML..etc.
Zionists have already lost the war. Russia, China, Iran and others… should be patient only and resist on any kind of provocation and pressure. Victory is already in their hands.
Most of young stupid Americans kids don’t want to be in military after they been to army….but the same time they don’t have any skill. All they hear is BS and all they see is BS…so what they gonna do? stay in army or get fuked trying find a real job, and no one wants some one who been in military just look up how many of their “great” soldiers murder their friends or their families.
Average American is a loudmouth, ignorant boorish imbecile brought up in a isolated brainwashed environment of Hollywood and Bilderberg chest thumping “exceptionalism”. Most have never traveled, learnt a language or even been exposed to someone from a different culture or religion. The Jew media intentionally keeps the “white Americans” in a fantasy world on a 6000 calorie junk fast food diet and cheap thrills Hollywood fantasies. Only now with thousands dying in streets from lack of even basic medical care and China’s rise, even these fat, dumb idiots are realizing that US is a third world failed state.
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Most of them are overweight because they don’t have access to quality food. Cheap food is full of hormones and untested chemicals.
I think most of the are overweight because they are cooped up indoors playing games, with very little exercise and play time as children growing up. Yes the food is a big factor too,
so zionist slowly killing Americans from withing to rule them forever . zionist made sure this American doesnt rise against zionist rule US goverment . US is on ddeath bed
Bring back the draft. Good for America’s snowflakes and good for the world as there would be no more wars of choice.
Since when sis Amerikkkan military start worrying about people being “too stupid” to join them? They’ve always wanted such candidates, brainless human drones to follow orders. It’s more the case being too smart to join their zionist armed cult that serves the richest 0.5%.
The film Full Metal Jacket is divided into two halves – training and combat. Now the first half deals with training – but specifically the film’s focus on the overweight, misfit, character was actually all about ‘McNamara’s Morons’, aka Project 100,000. In 1966 US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was struggling to fill the conscription numbers, to mobilize enough competent US men into military service, for the projected Vietnam War manpower requirements. So McNamara dropped the existing aptitude and fitness requirements for entrance into military service. These had previously been based around what was deemed the minimum average aptitude and capacity for a competent soldier. So now men that were previously deemed below the average requirements, were suddenly being drafted in large numbers, to make up the shortfall, and were called New Standards Men, or more commonly, McNamara’s Morons, and McNamara aimed to fill the manpower shortfall with 100,000 of them. The then President, Johnson, tried to sell the whole episode, politically, as a social and economic opportunity, a way forwards for the under-educated and/or under-achieving – but the whole policy was heavily criticized in years afterwards, both in social and military terms. You all know the saying,…those that ignore history, are doomed to repeat it…
Being fat, dumb, lazy, inhaling unhealthy food and having a lack of motivation are life choices. Nobody has a gun to your temple and forces you to live that way. This concern by the retired admirals and generals is a crock of horse dung. If there aren’t enough bodies to fight endless wars, then the Einsteins and geniuses just hire private contractors at an even higher cost.
Why fight for a regime that has the American people’s worst interests at heart? Fuck em, if everyone stopped joining the US military, the globalist scum in Washington would be powerless.
What do they mean fat?!?
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Don’t forget McNamara’s morons.