Obesity can be fixed.
Fat boys need exercise..
Bariatric surgery is now the preferred course of treatment and even then success ratios are low.
The kind and type of foods consumed by the young condemn them. And after teenage years the addition of fat cells is not naturally needed, except for pregnancy, and once added is irreversible. Stats since the 50s don’t lie. It is a pandemic with no cure given the food supply.
Exactly. Get some of these kids away from mommy and daddy and the XBox for a while, and they’ll be fine. That’s what basic is for.
Then ones who don’t have it in them won’t make it, and that’s also what basic is for.
Same with the kids with criminal records or failed drug tests. Unless it’s a pretty serious felony conviction or unless the recruit is a serious addict, most of them have a good chance of making it.
I don’t care who shows up at basic. I care who reports to his first unit.