In an attempt to narrow the gap of enlistment fails, the United States Air Force is now increasing the weight limit for new recruits to meet their goals.
This new comes after a recent report revealed that roughly 10,000 Army soldiers well into obesity because of the Covid lockdowns and inactivity, along with many thousands more packing on the pounds and being overweight.
The U.S. Army already had to widen their weight limits last year to increase their enrollment numbers, after having their worst recruitment miss ever in history, with other divisions having to tap into their backstock recruitment reserves to meet their quotas. But now they too are in the hole for this year.
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Military.com explained the Air Force’s changes:
Male recruits are now allowed to have up to 26% body fat, and women are allowed 36%, Air Force Recruiting Service spokesperson Leslie Brown confirmed to Military.com on Tuesday. That’s up from the previous requirement of 20% for men and 28% for women.
While recruits will be allowed to join with greater body fat percentages, they will still be expected to meet the same fitness standards as everyone else to stay in the service, Brown stressed. That means meeting the waist-to-height ratio requirement the Air Force announced in January and implemented this month.
I can’t stress enough: We are not lowering our standards, but rather we are aligning our standards with the overall DoD policy.
Brown added in an email, citing a Defense Department instruction on fitness and body composition programs released last year.
The Air Force expects its new increased body fat limits to allow 50 to 100 more recruits to join the service per month, though Brown added that estimate is based partially on anecdotal evidence.
For recruits who come in on the high end of the body fat standard, the Air Force’s “medical community will ensure education and resources are in place to help these airmen reach a lower [body fat percentage] and meet the [body composition program] standard,” Brown said.
The change in body fat standards for recruits stems from a team the Air Force announced last month that is looking into how the service can update recruitment policies. The team is led by Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin.
The service is also trying to entice more people into joining by offering new incentives such as up to $65,000 in student loan debt repayment.
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“While recruits will be allowed to join with greater body fat percentages, they will still be expected to meet the same fitness standards as everyone else to stay in the service, Brown stressed.” -HOW?! You’re increasing the weight limits, and you expect them to be able to perform the tests?
Scraping past the veneer – notice that this is only to meet recruitment. These overweight and obese recruits will not be admitted to the Air Force, or any other service, unless the tests are once again dropped to bare banes nothingness from what they are already at! Many of these recruits will be cut loose unless the tests are not lowered some more, but the media will not report that…
I have said it so many times before, but our military is screwed, big time.
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As if the Air Force requirements weren’t already the lowest going! That’s where all the liberal druggies & social engineer psych-sorcery types enlisted back in the day: at least the ‘fortunate sons’ who didn’t dodge on up to Canada. Lots of desk jockies. The children of that class ‘knew’ too much…but were still riding that crony Craft gravy train of the white collar welfare cronies & corporatist types, & loathe to give up their ‘privilege’ and the deserved perks of the ‘most highly evolved’ and ‘smarter-than-the-average-bear’, ‘above average intelligence’ types. Like the Laurel Canyon, Monarch and Hollywood types with military & Ivy League pedigrees, half of which reached back over across the pond to Great Britain & the Continent elites & men of Craft, highest up & deepest in.
UC Berkeley types. Study out some of the creeps & antichrist ‘revolutionaries’ that matriculated there! Bad as the openly Jesuit and Oxford, & birds of the same feather.
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Revelation 18:2 KJB And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
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The best ways to strengthen the military (if it’s truly possible) are:
1. True sincere repentance
2. Only allowing men 20 years old and older to serve
3. Proper Nutrition, Exercise, Air quality (the air must be free from toxins), Rest
Raising weight limits would not cut it in the long run, even though the Air Force thinks so in the short term.