There was a brief scare of meningitis at the San Diego training center while I was there, but I don’t think anyone died from it. You can’t very well stop PT for this. Sad.
Meningitis made the rounds in 1981.
I had it at 29 Palms. Messed up my upper back.
Time to reintroduce PE in school. There is a minimum year or two but training and fitness should be every year. About 3 years ago I witnessed an Aussie school girl at a fair in the U.S. walk up to the Marine recuiting booth, jump up to the pull up bar and started cranking pullups. She stopped at about 30 or so. The Marines were impressed. I don’t think they see that too often.