“since 2001 the number of soldiers who are classified as overweight has skyrocketed.”
Well we (US taxpayers) will all be paying that Big Pharma cost for ozempic. Some $900 a month for 4 shots. Then who knows what the trans drugs cost.
This military deserves to die.
“Well we (US taxpayers) will all be paying that Big Pharma cost for ozempic. Some $900 a month for 4 shots. Then who knows what the trans drugs cost. This military deserves to die”
Military medicine is a trade off. These people that are willing to step in front of a bullet so others can live the life they choose are worth every cent they get.
No one can make me believe that diabetes is just the outcome of wrong or too much food. It might be contributory in some cases, but in others it is not a player. Overweightness in the military was an excuse for releasing them of the job to save government money and justifying it with bad publicity. Uncle sugar bought the whole package when they drafted or enlisted the people they did for their political purposes. Then they dissected the person to get a way to cut the cost of their agenda. But in the meantime they have ignored their own rules to fill slots. I had three troops I supervised in my career that were not within the height restrictions at enlistment. One played basketball for a name university, one played in two NIT’s, and the third had a tryout with the Lakers. All were accepted into the military. One was even given the job of crawling into bomber wings to work at 6’ foot 8” plus. He lost that job at tech school and was cross trained into my career field. Outstanding troop. But they took the whole package so they kept him in because they were committed.
When I was determined to have contracted diabetes in 1987 I was consistently under 190 pounds at 6 feet one and was running 5 miles plus a day while teaching and competing at two open level anaerobic sports in handball and racquetball. I was in outstanding shape. But I was still a diabetic. And the years of the illness, one that seems to come from nowhere, have taken their toll as I now have a heart and respiratory condition that is taking its toll. My father was diabetic and no one knew until it happened.
I can’t speak for all the members that are ill with this disease, but comparing diabetes with trans actions is apples and oranges. No one wants to get diabetes. But being trans is a choice and not a medical condition. And that’s where I agree with you as not one doctor, and I think they have tried their butts off, has been able to connect homosexuality or cross gendering with DNA.
So please don’t configure the weight problems inherent to diabetes with the choices of sexual questionability. It isn’t in the same parking lot.
wy69