Posted on 01/11/2023 11:00:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
The U.S. Army is expanding a pre-basic training course that allows candidates to enlist who do not meet the weight and aptitude requirements in an effort to fight a recruiting crisis plaguing every branch of the military.
An initial pilot for the program at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in August was open to recruits who had 6% more body fat than Army standards or had scored between 21 and 30 on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test.
Now, the Army will launch four additional companies, two of which will be at Fort Jackson and another two at Fort Benning, Georgia, allowing room for 2,000 additional recruits per year at Fort Jackson and a total of 6,400 recruits per year at Fort Benning.
“The Future Soldier Prep Course is giving young Americans who want to serve the chance to do so by helping them not only meet our standards but, in many cases, rise above them,” Gen. James McConville, the Army’s top officer, said of the expanded program, according to a Military.com report Monday. […]
Recruits have 90 days to boost their test scores or lose enough body fat to be considered compliant with Army standards and ship off to basic training, with 2,965 of the 3,206 students that have participated so far successfully completing the course.
The program is designed to expand the pool of potential Americans who qualify for service in the Army, a move made necessary by a recruiting crisis that has left all branches scrambling to fill their ranks. Fiscal year 2022 was the worst year for military recruiting since the services switched to an all-volunteer force in 1973. …
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Beat me by that much...
Never noticed Ziskey giving that look of love towards Oxberger. What’s up with that?
A friend of mine says that USAF is releasing their updated Body Composition Program, aka “Fat Boy Program” on 13 Jan 2023 and it will take effect 1 April 2023.
See any irony with those days??
Yep. Google “McNamara’s morons” and read about doing this in the Vietnam era.
If the Army and other branches would just stop with the WOKE crap, they would probably increase their recruiting goals. Still, GEN Z are a bunch of over-indulged panzies. I call them the Weakest Generation.
Fatbody platoon. Merciless. We used to watch them working out and the DI’s loom over them at the mess hall.
Nobody wants in a Fag Obama Military.
21 to 30 on an ASVAB? Ouch!
Do male soldiers in the new U.S. Army deduct the weight of their breast implants from the calculations for their fitness standard?
...ohhhhhh....!!! Fort Jackson and Fort Benning - both named after famous Confederate generals....!!can’t have that, can we....!!??
Just say that they’re named after Michael Jackson snd Annette Bening.
Drill Sergeant, sounding off: “Where’s my fat boy? Come here, fat boy!”
I would like to know where and at what DFAC this image was taken. My guess- Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. The world’s largest most proficient chow hall is located there, serving up to 28,000 meals a day. 7,000 meals each, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight rations.
Both subject’s expressions are golden!
Back in the day... when running cadence and in passing an obviously overweight person, that person would be referred to as “heavy drop”. Airborne rigger-slang for heavy air loads dropped from the sky.
In 1983, I went to a basic leadership school and got rejected for being overweight based on some antiquated height weight chart. I had just run 2 miles in 10:35, for my most recent PT test so I was no slouch. I am built like an archetype middle linebacker. It didn’t matter one iota, since the chart said emphatically, that I was a fatty. The weight limit for my height (5’ -11”) was 198lbs. I think I weighed 207lbs. I was sent to the back of the room with all the other rejects. One rejected guy looked like a human fireplug.
My First Sargent sent me to an Army doctor to get a pinch test and my abdominal fat equated into a low percentage and the doctor adjusted my maximum allowable weight to 220lbs. Unfortunately, the effort was too late as the cow had already left the barn as I had lost my slot.
You know we are in trouble when they are recruiting Slow Joe level recruits.
The answer, give lap dances to toddlers.
However,IQ cannot be fixed.
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