The following report is by ZeroHedge:
At least 10,000 locked-down, stressed-out active duty army soldiers slipped into obesity during the pandemic, according to new research, which looked at weight trends among service members between February 2019 and June 2021.
“I could notice it,” said U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Murillo, who stands at 5 ft, 5 inches tall and weighed as much as 192 pounds. “The uniform was tighter.”
Early pandemic lockdowns, endless hours on his laptop and heightened stress led Murillo, 27, to reach for cookies and chips in the barracks at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Gyms were closed, organized exercise was out and Murillo’s motivation to work out on his own was low.
The AP wrote
Increases were seen in the US Navy and the Marines too, according to the Associated Press.
Out of nearly 200,000 Army soldiers analyzed, almost 27% who were healthy before the pandemic became overweight. Nearly 16% of those who were previously overweight became obese. Prior to the pandemic, around 18% of soldiers were obese. By 2021, it was 23%.
“The Army and the other services need to focus on how to bring the forces back to fitness,” according to Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, director of the Center for Health Services Research at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, who led the research.4
According to federal research, fat people cost the military more than 650,000 workdays each year, while obesity-related healthcare exceeds $1.5 billion each year for current and former service members and their families.
Military leadership has been sounding the alarm over obesity in the US military for over a decade, however the pandemic appears to have exacerbated the problem, according to Marine Corps Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, who co-authored a recent report on the problem, AP reports.
The numbers have not gotten better. They are just getting worse and worse and worse.
He said during a November webinar held by the American Security Project.
In the last fiscal year, the Army failed to reach its recruiting goal for the first time ever – by a margin of 15,000 recruits, or 25% of the requirement – largely because 75% of those aged 17 to 24 don’t qualify for various reasons, including being too fat – the biggest individual disqualifier which affects more than 10% of potential recruits.
It is devastating. We have a dramatic national security problem.
Cheney said.
Extra weight can make it difficult for service members to meet core fitness requirements, which differ depending on the military branch. In the Army, for instance, if soldiers can’t pass the Army Combat Fitness Test, a recently updated measure of ability, it could result in probation or end their military careers.
Koehlmoos and her team analyzed medical records for all active duty Army soldiers in the Military Health System Data Repository, a comprehensive archive. They looked at two periods: before the pandemic, from February 2019 to January 2020, and during the crisis, from September 2020 to June 2021. They excluded soldiers without complete records in both periods and those who were pregnant in the year before or during the study.
The Associated Press wrote
Murillo has been able to slowly reverse the weight gain, dropping his BMI from nearly 32 to just over 27, which falls within the Defense Department’s standard.
One potential solution noted by Dr. Amy Rothberg, an endocrinologist at the University of Michigan who directs a weight-loss program; a new category of effective anti-obesity drugs, including Wegovy (semaglutide). The DoD’s health plan, TRICARE, covers such drugs (and funded, but ‘didn’t influence’ the study which led to this report).
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
What more can I say? The U.S. military is embarrassingly bad and laughable.
The Army last year had its worst recruitment miss ever in history, with other divisions in the hole for this year’s cycle; the Army will be doing less screaming to appeal to the younger squads, as they raise the weight limits.
Then of course we have the immense perversion problem with them wanting to promote sodomy, and get more of them in there.
SEE: US Navy Is Training Sailors On How To Use Proper Gender Pronouns For Pride Month
Let’s face it and be real here: the American military is cooked.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Most powerful military in the world.
Meanwhile:
Woke culture
LGBTQIA sodomy and this 59 different genders with 176 different pronouns
Feminism
Emma and her two mommies
Corruption and imperialism (since World War I, in fact)
Can’t lay off McDonald’s and Ben & Jerry’s
All by design to destroy the military and recruit losers who will not only go after American patriots but worse, WHO WILL LOOK FORWARD TO IT WITH VIGOR AND LOTS OF ENERGY. That is my thought on what is really going on. In that light, the Marxists leaders of the military could care less about overweight out of shape people as long as they are willing to kill Americans which the new military will do and ENJOY it. question is, how long will they last once they start getting killed en masse. will they cut and run? YEP!!
You’d be surprised at the kind of people were in my highschool NJROCT class, we had obese kids, kids who couldn’t even do thirty sit-ups, thieves, those who chew tobacco in school, (never mind that was not only illegal to own much less take into a school ground,) and about a dozen other things I could mention. Oh, and that physical requirement you hear some middle school students mutter about when they want to join in high school, that’s just for a little ribbon they give you, they could care less if you don’t meet those requirements.
And when they brought in the recruiter, all he talked about was collage benefits and whatever little goodies you’ll get, never once mentioned about the pride or glory in serving your country or anything like that. He never once talked about the brave militia men who fought in America’s early wars, often times for no pay. He never brought up the young men in the world wars who had such a strong desire to serve this nation that they lied about their age so that they can get into basic training. Oh my no, all it was is, again, what you can get out of the tax-payers.
Which it is fine, good even, for a nation to take care of it’s soldiers don’t get me wrong. Yet when benefits become the entire recruitment mantra you know that the nation has major issues with priorities.
So no, I’m not at all surprised by any of this current day nonsense going on, whether it’s the obesity rates or the military going full woke.
Yeah I remember the constant beratement from Army and Navy recruiters during high school, especially since I wrestled and played football, so they always tried to sway me. I remember the one time I was taking a graphic design class and two active duty soldiers from the Navy bragged about how they worked as graphic designers, and all they did was slap together posters and propaganda, and play video games and eat junk food. On guy had a Hello Kitty tattoo proudly printed on his shoulder!