{"id":68455,"date":"2016-10-16T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68455"},"modified":"2016-10-16T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T13:21:08","slug":"army-the-least-fit-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68455","title":{"rendered":"Army the least fit service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poetrooper sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/10\/11\/the-us-army-is-the-fattest-branch-of-the-military\/\">New York Post<\/a> which proclaims that the Army is the fattest service while the Marine Corps is the fittest service;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A hefty 10.5 percent of all members of the Army are overweight, up four percentage points from five years ago, Defense Department data obtained by Military Times show.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force is the second-heaviest branch with 9 percent of its members overweight, more than double the figure from five years ago. The Navy weighed in with 5.9 percent of its members needing to toss a few pounds overboard, up from 3.3 percent in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Marines, meanwhile, are the fittest branch, with 2.3 percent of its members deemed overweight. That\u2019s still up from 1.7 percent in 2011, the data show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that surprising, actually, when you consider that the Army has more soldiers in support roles than the Marines as a percentage of their members compared to the number of trigger pullers. Given the general physical shape of the civilian world, though, the services probably need to focus more on fitness these days than a lot of the things they do, especially since there are fewer deployments compared to ten years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The Army should bring back their Master Fitness Course &#8211; it changed my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetrooper sends us a link from the New York Post which proclaims that the Army is &hellip; <a title=\"Army the least fit service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68455\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army the least fit service<\/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":[187,232,184,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force","category-army-news","category-marine-corps","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68455","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=68455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68455\/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=68455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}