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Re: The Army Culture on Weight
by hellcat

Yet another stupid mindset which causes a necessary part of the military to self-destruct. Fantastic. The recruiters should hardly be bitching if they have to make quotas that seem unreasonable, given that their own comrades drive out the soldiers of whom the US military could make good use.

My brother had a friend in high school, top athlete in track, football, you name it, who ran into a wonderful snafu created by a ditzy Army doctor. The doctor put him at fifty pounds more than his actual weight, and even after he reached less than five percent body fat and was getting hunger shakes on a regular basis, they refused to change his diet plan because of one stupid error. Thank goodness he finally got out.

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