“About one-third of soldiers who enter the service leave before their third year due to injuries, according to Frost, which the Army attributes to insufficient fitness training during boot camp.”
A third sounds awfully high. I can’t see how physical fitness training can keep a person from being clumsy and accident prone.
I think the problem is attributed to factors other than what they are saying. Such as the lack of masculinity and the shunning of rugged individualism in today’s culture. Put pajama boy in a uniform and he’d be getting owees all day long.
Get on that disability gravy train.
“A third sounds awfully high. I can’t see how physical fitness training can keep a person from being clumsy and accident prone.”
Although they don’t say it, I suspect that fully 15% of the total Force is released in that time-frame because they’re pregnant. Just an admittedly uninformed guess.
I mean, Obutthead said he wouldn’t want his daughters to be punished with a baby, either.
Because physical training increases muscle control as well as strength--not to mention giving you a keener sense of the space around you.
I would think that's something we'd all remember from those awful training weeks before fall sports--after we'd been lounging around most of August. Once you could finally walk again, you'd come out of training feeling like a million bucks and moving way better than before.
Back in the early 1990s while in the Air Force, I got hyped up and went to maximum fitness routines (running a hundred miles a month was the norm for me). As the months rolled by...I started to have joint and feet problems. The Air Force brought in a sports doctor to the base (they were starting to notice a wide variety of sport injuries). So she examined my running shoes and said in a blunt way...I’d have to upgrade and spend more money on the shoes, and retire them about every three to four months. This meant going from $60 jogging shoes once a year.....to $100 shoes every quarter. She was correct, and my issues decreased, but it was a thorn in my budget.
I suspect when you sit down and analyze the injuries that the Army talks about....these are all things that you could resolve and correct early on, if you had trainers in the gym and going over people’s routines.
My suspicion is that once you throw out the age standings, and have just one goal for folks...you will have more folks in their mid-30s who are going to be given a medical discharge and get a pension deal because of injuries. Maybe that wasn’t the intent, but it’ll be the result.