[Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell, the senior enlisted adviser to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford] said today\u2019s force is combat ready, but he believes the obesity trends are troubling, and demand careful consideration from senior leaders. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a clear readiness concern right now. But I think it\u2019s something that needs our attention. And we really have to look across our services at what we\u2019re doing every morning or every day to prepare the men and women for what could be the worst day of their life,\u201d Troxell said in a recent interview. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, one of the problems is the fact that the Pentagon has been making noise about changing the standards and allowing more people to be fatter – privates hear that differently that the brass intended it to be heard.<\/p>\n
Military women are more likely to be designated overweight or fat compared to military men. In 2015, 10.3 percent of military woman were flagged as overweight, compared to 7.3 percent of men. But that gender gap is shrinking as the rates of overweight males has increased more rapidly. In 2001, about one in 77 men was deemed fat, compared to about one in 30 women. Now the comparison between males and females is far less dramatic as the latest data shows one in 14 men is overweight, compared to one in 10 women, <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The article continues that even combat arms troops are gaining weight;<\/p>\n
On average, those assigned to combat units are not as likely to be overweight as the force at large. In 2001, only about one in every 100 service members assigned to combat arms career fields was flagged for being overweight. Now, it\u2019s about one in 15. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yeah, well, social warriors don’t need to be as fit as combat warriors. The Pentagon has to make a choice which kind of warriors they want to fight their wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Military Times reports that the armed forces is wrestling with obesity these days. [Army Command … The military’s obesity problem<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Fat](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Fat-ass-Marine.jpg\")
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n