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  • Top Army recruiter weighs fat camp for recruits

    01/12/2009 10:34:19 AM PST · by presidio9 · 23 replies · 961+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Mon Jan 12, 2009 | SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
    The Army has been dismissing so many overweight applicants that its top recruiter, trying to keep troop numbers up in wartime, is considering starting a fat farm to transform chubby trainees into svelte soldiers. Maj. Gen. Thomas Bostick, head of the Army Recruiting Command, said he wants to see a formal diet and fitness regimen running alongside a new school at Fort Jackson that helps aspiring troops earn their GEDs. Bostick told The Associated Press that obesity looms as "a bigger challenge for us in the years ahead" than any other problem that keeps young people from entering the military,...