{"id":77097,"date":"2018-01-11T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77097"},"modified":"2018-01-11T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T13:37:58","slug":"army-recruits-fitness-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77097","title":{"rendered":"Army recruits fitness fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/world\/2018\/01\/10\/physically-fit-recruits-army-hard-find-especially-these-states\/1016030001\/\">USAToday<\/a> link sent to us by HMC Ret, the Army is having trouble finding qualified recruits in southern States. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The regional distinction also suggests that government policy can influence fitness, and the South may be falling behind the rest of the country. \u201cSome of the greatest public health achievements have come as the result of state-level policy change,\u201d the study found.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven states \u2014 Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia \u2014 had among the highest rates of recruits who become injured during basic training.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article claims that only 23% of prospects are fully qualified compared to 50% of candidates during World War II.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That number also includes those not qualified because of other factors, such as a criminal record or lack of a high school diploma. But physical fitness remains a growing problem for the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is a less fit population,\u201d said Mark Hertling, a retired three-star general who served on the president\u2019s physical fitness council under President Barack Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The solution, according to the &#8220;experts&#8221; is more sidewalks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bornstein and Hertling said the Army cannot fix the problem without support from society. The study cited bringing physical education back to schools or improving infrastructure, such as sidewalks, to encourage walking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or parents who will kick their kids out of the house a couple of times a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a USAToday link sent to us by HMC Ret, the Army is having trouble &hellip; <a title=\"Army recruits fitness fails\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77097\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army recruits fitness fails<\/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":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77097","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=77097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77097\/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=77097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}