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Navy eases body fat standards in effort to retain sailors
World Magazine ^ | Posted March 14, 2016, | Michael Cochrane

Posted on 03/14/2016 12:54:56 PM PDT by Retain Mike

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To: Eagles6

Don’t women with big tits have higher body fat.


41 posted on 03/14/2016 2:19:38 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

?


42 posted on 03/14/2016 2:20:18 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Yes, women have mor BF in general but that doesn't mean they can't be fit.

These women are majorly obese and not fit.

43 posted on 03/14/2016 2:23:04 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: freedumb2003

44 posted on 03/14/2016 2:25:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: freedumb2003
If they walked side by side in a Costco there wouldn't be room to pass.

They look like the type that would be fighting a little old lady with a walker for one of those electric shopping carts.

45 posted on 03/14/2016 2:34:49 PM PDT by digger48
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To: afsnco

I agree. Oh, and let me guess . . . she went from 212 lbs to 188 lbs and she is 5 foot 2.

Loosening the standards, indeed.


46 posted on 03/14/2016 2:36:33 PM PDT by dsat4life (Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty . . . who was, who is, and is to come!! Amen!)
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To: Farmer Dean

I wouldn’t assume it’s all women, just because the article focuses on two women. I knew a guy who served on a carrier and had problems with it. He was a big guy to start with, about 6’4” and when I knew him he was about 300 lbs. He was built like a football lineman. He was strong and fit but just put on weight if he even looked at food. He never was kicked out for weight but was put on notice several times.


47 posted on 03/14/2016 2:46:30 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Nevadan

Thanks for that perspective.


48 posted on 03/14/2016 3:03:41 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: gundog
"I know a guy(former AF) that claims PTSD from seeing choppers pushed off the deck of the USS Hancock."

Very traumatic, I'm sure.


49 posted on 03/14/2016 3:19:19 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite

Yeah, he’s a mess. Claims he can’t debase himself by asking someone for a job. Kind of a blowhard in regular circumstances, though.


50 posted on 03/14/2016 3:22:21 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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"Yeah, he’s a mess. Claims he can’t debase himself by asking someone for a job."

Well, there's no guarantee he's not milking it. But they did put a lot of Hueys in the drink back in April of '75:

Previous post was a ARVN chopper. This seems to be an Air America bird getting ready for the old heave-ho.

51 posted on 03/14/2016 3:31:03 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Retain Mike
Navy Petty Officer Lentoyi White

And here's the real reason for the change. They were afraid a disproportionate number of black females would be tossed, and would sue because the standards are "racist".

52 posted on 03/14/2016 3:38:02 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PLMerite

Isn’t that USAF markings on the “ARVN chopper?”


53 posted on 03/14/2016 3:41:10 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Now that affirmative action and equal opportunity dominate military operational planning, I would tell a guy who insists on joining the armed forces to always carry jam in one of his pockets, because he is about to become toast.


54 posted on 03/14/2016 3:59:12 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: ichabod1

Now that affirmative action and equal opportunity dominate military operational planning, I would tell a guy who insists on joining the armed forces to always carry jam in one of his pockets, because he is about to become toast.

It is no longer a meritocracy designed to defeat an enemy that can only be attractive to those would pursue excellence.


55 posted on 03/14/2016 4:13:05 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

The Liberals always saw the military as the biggest Government Social Program there is.


56 posted on 03/14/2016 4:14:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: gundog
"Isn’t that USAF markings on the “ARVN chopper?” "

Looks like it in black and white, but ARVN aircraft markings were like USAF marking except for the color:

Might have wanted to confuse the bad guys.


57 posted on 03/14/2016 4:26:46 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Hugin

There was a 12 year old girl in my son’s swim class that was very heavy. All the other kids were slender. When I first saw her I couldn’t believe she would be able to be competitive at meets. Boy was I wrong. Like Serena that bulk was all muscle and she came in top 3 in all her races.


58 posted on 03/14/2016 5:03:23 PM PDT by heylady
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To: dfwgator
One guy I sent this to said, "I guess the new Navy PC means everybody gets a trophy.
59 posted on 03/14/2016 5:16:44 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: ExNewsExSpook
Sad to say, but virtually all troops leaving the military are encouraged to file for PTSD.

Yeah. Then they can deny them guns in the civilian world.

Don't take this trap.

60 posted on 03/14/2016 7:08:05 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm an Islamophobe??? Well, good. When it comes to Islam, there's plenty to Phobe about.)
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