Those NFL linemen are athletes. They can run and perform, don’t let their tubby looks deceive you.
They are quite different from your run of the mill overweight person who is hard pressed to run 20 yards.
I think these decisions they are making are criminal.
Criminal.
Well... it sounds more like they are loosening the height AND weight requirements. Yeah, 26% is a bit higher for a man but it’s far from morbid obesity. I’m sure the chairforce wouldn’t care ;-)
So are a lot of overweight sailors. Isn't 18 hours a day at sea work enough? Some days 20 hour days. What about 100% humidity in about 120 plus equipment rooms? Out of a ship of almost 5400 men only maybe a half dozen were so overweight they would have had issues working but they were senior enlisted.
If the Pentagon was serious about crew readiness and ship readiness they would go back to a male crew only policy which has likely done much more damage to readiness than weight ever did. They strain at a gnat & swallow a camel. It's not the sailors weight that's the issue it's who they are allowing on ships who have no business ever being there to start with under any circumstance. I'd say someone finally drummed into the Morons heads that they need able bodied men capable of doing work requiring a larger framed men.