WASHINGTON — The Army's problem of finding physically fit recruits at a time of rising obesity in the United States is especially acute in the South — where it traditionally draws a high percentage of soldiers, a study published Wednesday finds.
Army recruits from Southern states are generally in poorer physical condition than those from other parts of the country, concluded researchers at The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, S.C.
“This has a real impact on national security,” said Daniel Bornstein, a researcher who led the study.
The regional distinction also suggests that government policy can influence fitness, and the South may be falling behind the rest of the country. “Some of the greatest public health achievements have come as the result of state-level policy change,” the study found.
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The elites can''t have it both ways.
ReplyDeleteThey chose to poison the population with aerosols, vaccines, and fake food.
Now they want healthy men who are ready to die for Zion?
I don't think so.
Better get your cannon fodder elsewhere.
We Americans have gone to pot.
Hear here.
ReplyDeleteWarfare will soon go beyond the need to be fit.Did anyone see those handmade attack drones on the news?
ReplyDeleteSorry 705, one's choice to eat sausage biscuits every morning has NOTHING to do with what you have mentioned. And I am a man from the south.
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ReplyDeleteI don't believe you got the point of 705.
Sausage biscuits are REAL FOOD.
Not fake food.
But thanks for trying to be a smart arse