The CIA seal is displayed in the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (File Photo)
CIA's Mission Impossible: Get A New Gym -- Wall Street Journal
Agency's Quest Is Marathon Effort; Washington's Workout Culture.
Gen. David Petraeus turned the tide in the Iraq war, flushed the Taliban from southern strongholds in Afghanistan and infiltrated al Qaeda in Yemen. His newest quest, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is proving just as daunting: getting more space for treadmills.
Mr. Petraeus, 59 years old, arrived in 2011 to find two basement gyms at the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters, one with original flooring dating to 1964. A hallway doubles as an indoor running track; it takes 10.25 laps to cover a mile. One gym is so small it can't contain the punching bags and medicine balls that spill into the hall, where people stretch out and do mat exercises.
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My Comment: As a fitness nut, this is an easy debate. Build the gym .... correction .... build a massive and modern gym. I am sure that it will be expensive to build, but I am also sure that it will pay dividends in the long run.
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