I lost zero pounds when enlisting because I wasn’t a fat slob.
Why congratulate someone for doing what they should never of have to have done?
Congratulatins on being perfect. Why don’t you just go sit on a mountaintop and bask in the glow of your own awesomeness?
The rest of us can recognize the young man for being motivated to get his shit together, and doing it.
Have a nice day.
Neither did I. In fact I gained muscle weight but that doesn’t make us better or perfect. I give the kid kudos for being determined and working toward a goal until he succeeded.
The kid had the absolute CORRECT attitude to do this. You are a classless ass for belittling his achievement.
Sociopath alert....FR doesn’t need crap posters like you. A youngster finds himself overweight, decides to grow up, loses weight that would have killed him pre-maturely so that he could join the army so that he can defend the folks like you and your freedom to call him a “fat slob”.
You know, bitterness and unkindness of spirit also hastens hardening of the arteries.
Perhaps.
But, then again, you must be mentally deficient to make a comment like that in public. He can work to lose weight. You? You will still be retarded.
If he was only 17 when it started, it tells me he was a “fat slob” because his parents over-fed him unhealthy food throughout his childhood. The whole family is probably like that. So to break away from your upbringing and figure it out yourself at such a young age, that’s commendable.
Who pissed in your corn flakes, this morning?
Because so few bother to do it? We have the fattest poor people in the world!
When I served the base pay (E-2, after boot camp but before promotion) was $88 per month. For 2020 it is projected to be $1,942.40. That can give him a start out of poverty, if he's responsible with it. He can learn leadership skills and how to actually DO things that need doing so he is employable when his service ends. Not a bad deal.
I lost zero pounds when enlisting because I wasn’t a fat slob.
Why congratulate someone for doing what they should never of have to have done?
More than a bit harsh considering the kid is 18. If you want to blame anybody here it is definitely whoever was cooking for him all these years. Mom, presumably.
Why?
1) He emulated what he saw as a kid and was clearly enabled by his parents
2) He saw the problem and put in a lot of hard work and discipline to get where he needed to be
3) What effort is it on your part to tell the kid, if given the chance, "Good work"?