Sunday, October 22, 2023

68% Of US Service Members Are Obese Or Overweight


Senior Airman Christian Terrill, 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron medical technician, demonstrates the proper techniques of doing a pushup for Senior Airman Billie Dunigan, also a 445th ASTS member, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in April 2017. (U.S. Air Force)  

Stars and Stripes: Nearly 70% of US troops are overweight or obese, research report says  

WASHINGTON — Almost seven out of every 10 U.S. troops are either overweight or obese, according to a new report, which also warns the growing trend could compromise military readiness and undermine national security. 

The American Security Project, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that studies modern national security issues, conducted the study and found 68% of active-duty service members fall somewhere between overweight and obese on the body mass index, which is a long-used but controversial method of assessing a person’s body classification by height and weight. 

A person between 25 and 30 on the BMI is considered clinically overweight and more than 30 is considered obese, according to the National Institutes of Health.  

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WNU Editor: 70% !?!?!?!?!? This is a staggering number. 

68% Of US Service Members Are Obese Or Overweight  

Nearly 70% of American soldiers are obese or overweight — compromising national security: study -- NYPost 

Study: Nearly 70 Percent of US Troops Are Overweight or Obese -- Newsmax  

Unfit To Fight: 68% Of US Service Members Obese Or Overweight -- Zero Hedge

23 comments:

  1. That number is not realistic. The height and weight standard for the us military is totally bogus.

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  2. I was in for seven years from 2003-2009, armor and infantry, and I would say about 10-20% of our personnel couldn’t physically perform and always had doctors notes To modify their PT in the mornings. Non combat arms MOS’ were even worse, but not 70%. Even I was considered overweight despite earning a physical fitness excellence award the same morning. The Military uses a height to weight graph that can be inaccurate of one’s physical fitness so take the 70% thing with a grain of salt

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  3. SHOCKER: Feds Sound the Alarm on the Potential Infiltration of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Hezbollah in US Southern Border

    I blame Fred.

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  4. “San Diego Field Office Intelligence Unit assesses that individuals inspired by, or reacting to the current Israel-Hamas conflict may attempt travel to or from the area of hostilities in the Middle East via circuitous transit across the Southwest border,”

    How did we get an open border? Biden
    How did we get Biden? Biden voter
    How did we get Biden voter? Shit DNA newspapers like the New York times that get Pullitzers for denying the Holodomor

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  5. Bidenomics: Americans Falling Behind on Auto Payments at Record Rate, Mass Repossessions Looming

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  6. blame US food manufacturers that put sugar and high fructose corn syrup into prepared foods. Only way to avoid it is to eat basics foods cooked yourself. US food manufacturers are poisoning US consumers including the military it appears.

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  7. How did we get an open border? Biden
    How did we get Biden? Biden voter
    How did we get Biden voter? Shit DNA newspapers like the New York times that get Pullitzers for denying the Holodomor

    I am not a crackpot.

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  8. 6:30 Child Pred Fred Lapides/Anon Lapdog in a nutshell:



    "Trump needs to be executed!! Stolen nuclear codes and Russia Collusion!" "Comey said he has the truth bomb evidence any day now so just believe the alleged anonymous sources and the currently apparent facts and hang him! 4 indictments means 4 ham sandwiches ReeEeEeEeE!!!"

    Also,

    "There are no rampant and unprecedented failures in the Biden administration, even this hyperlinked vox article shows how Biden's Middle East Policy proves he has full and attentive cognitive control of his administration, and the Bigots raycisms (TM) Republicans are just full of conspiracy theories with their eyes and intact Cerebrum. Just look at how they cannot elect a speaker who wont cave to democrats! Just focus on that!"


    Child Pred Fred Lapides is not a crackpot bootlicker partisan grifter.


    Gerplonk!!!!!!


    :D

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  9. Senator Hillary:

    “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake. And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”

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  10. How did we get an open border? Biden < Proof? Upon Inspection

    How did we get Biden? Biden voter < Obvious unless they are also cheating.

    How did we get Biden voter? Shit DNA newspapers like the New York times that get Pullitzers for denying the Holodomor < Honest observers have read this before See below:

    'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize

    If you read shit newspapers, you form shit opinions.



    I am not a crackpot but 6:30 is.



    Come to think of it 6:30 learned a new trick. I may have been wrong, when I said it was a
    no learner.

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  11. Walter Duranty, pictured in 1936 at a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York, repeatedly defended Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.


    Walter Duranty < Employed by DNA shit newspaper the New York Times


    https://www.npr.org/2022/05/08/1097097620/new-york-times-pulitzer-ukraine-walter-duranty


    Who do we know that regualarly reads and posts the:

    New York Times?
    Washington Post?
    Vox?

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  12. attn assholes: there is no open border!

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  13. attn assholes: there is no open border!

    They set a new all time high for monthly crossings.

    That is those who were caught, known got aways, and unknown got aways.


    9:55 is a known nut who saves the world not by dumpster diving and eating restaurant waste but by eating farm waste. 9:55 picks out the corn from bovine excrement and makes himself a meal.


    "Crossings at the U.S. Southern Border Are Higher Than Ever" - NYT

    "Illegal Immigration Is a Bigger Problem Than Ever. These Five Charts Explain Why." - WSJ

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  14. Illegal Immigration Is a Bigger Problem Than Ever. These Five Charts Explain Why.

    Single adults is almost twice that of families. Democrats always want to lead with "the children".

    The children are less than 1/3rd of border crossers. So many adult military aged males. Not to worry, the president has a wall around his beach house and AGENTS to man it.

    https://archive.ph

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  15. Under Joe Biden border crossing went EXPONENTIAL!

    They went VERTICAL!

    Walk like a Democrat



    https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/f687be7f-06c0-4e56-bfb3-2febca187369

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  16. 9:55,

    Wow. The fact you just said "there is no open border" along with all your other shitposting, just made you entirely illegitimate as someone worthy or capable of even talking to. Its not even a matter of defining "open border" to clarify things here.... you are just fucking out there guy. This is why I insist on only degrading and making fun of you for years now. I, and every other sentient person on here do not owe you a respectful or good faith conversation with all your delusional hackery. You are and long have been nothing more than the WNU comments section jester; a laughing stock grifting troll who is one step below the "you fools" 90's MS DOS era AI bot that comments on here as well sometimes.


    :(

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  17. If supplies lines get cut off they have built-in food reserves.

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  18. ah, poor Matthew. all he can do is empty is guts on free somebody get real, cracker.

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  19. Matthew: WHO STOLE AND HAD KEPT TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS? WHO IS NOW INDICTED FOR THAT?

    PS THERE ARE NO OPEN BORDERS. Anyone coming into the country through legal means comes through controlled borders. Ever come and gone to Mexico?

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  20. DHS needs to take care of 11:54/11:57.

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  21. 11:57,

    Just because the few entry points have regulated migration, doesnt mean the other 99.9% of the border is not entirely open with millions of undocumented people pouring through every year; the most in history the past couple years alone.

    No, its wide open you unbelievably stupid bastard; just like your skull cavity should be.

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  22. What Matthew Putnam said in his 1st paragraph is correct. I did not state it because 11:57 does not care about the truth.

    You can make logical arguments. You can state the truth and 11:57 does not care. So sooner or later DHS will get involved. You know what they say.

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