June 4th, 2009, 01:25 PM
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Would-Be Soldiers have Basil Butt, Military Has Had to Turn Away 48,000 Basil Butt Recruits Since 2005
"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in message
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On Jun 3, 8:30 am, wrote:
On Jun 2, 7:26 pm, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Jun 2, 12:34 pm, Gandalf Gay wrote:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7142589&page=1
Amanda Turcotte wants to be all that she can be, but she's 25 pounds
over
the Army's weight limit.
Her recruiter is sweating her down to regulation size with a grueling
daily exercise regimen.
"If you need to puke there's a garbage can right there," Army
recruiter
Sgt. Jessica La Pointe told Turcotte during a recent workout at an
Annapolis high school. "That's fine. You can come back and finish
up."
With fast-food diets and couch potato lifestyles expanding the
waistlines
of the nation's youth, the former professional kickboxer says she
must
become personal trainer to many recruits just to get them to boot
camp.
"We do get people who come in the office that are overweight by Army
standards," La Pointe told ABC News. "And then what we do is try to
work
out a program through nutrition and exercise."
The standards vary by service. The Army allows 26 percent body fat
for
men, and more for women. When recruits are asked their weight,
"everybody
lies," La Pointe said.
Obesity is a national epidemic. Three in four military-age Americans
is
unqualified to join the military. The No. 1 reason: obesity. One in
five
military-age Americans is too fat to serve. The military has turned
away
48,000 overweight recruits since 2005, more than all the American
troops
fighting in Afghanistan.
Leo Knight-Inglesby was one of them. Two years ago, when he wanted to
join
the Air Force, he tipped the scales at 361 pounds -- way over the Air
Force limit.
"I was eating everything in the house," Knight-Inglesby told ABC News
during a break from basic training. He said a recruiter told him,
"You
need to lose some weight -- a large amount of weight."
He's now at Boot Camp at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio,
Texas,
after dropping a staggering 161 pounds. He said he did it the old-
fashioned way -- exercise, and dropping a daily McDonald's habit.
Tech. Sgt. Scot J. Morin, who oversees physical training at Lackland,
has
seen the slide in fitness.
"Some of them come down here and they've been on the couch for the
past 18
years and haven't run a lick," he told ABC. "When I first got down
here
the trainees that were coming in were in a little more in shape than
they
are now."
As the nation's armed forces are stretched by wars on two fronts, an
increasing number of recruits never make it past the recruiting
office
before they're told they're unfit to serve. Curtis Gilroy, the
Pentagon's
accessions chief, said obesity amounts to a national crisis, and it
makes
a tough job filling the military's ranks even tougher.
"It's clearly a problem for the United States military," Gilroy told
ABC
News. "We're faced with a dwindling pool of the youth population in
the
17-to-24-year-old group about which we are very concerned," he said.
Turcotte hopes to be wearing Army green within the month.
Asked if two-hour-a-day workouts are worth it, she said, "Totally.
Definitely worth it. ... One more inch off my waist and two more
inches
off my hips and then I'll be good to go."
LOL...and since wingers constantly remind us that the military is
overwhelmingly Republican it then follows that the majority of
Republicans are TOO FAT.
I suspect it is because Republicans also have BIG MOUTHS...better to
shovel the food into when their foot is not in it.
Laugh...laugh...laugh...
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The majority of service age obese teens come from inner city minority
neighborhoods which by the way are overwhelmingly democrat
strongholds, lol.
Ragnar
You are wrong.
How else would the military be overwhelmingly Republican if they were
not Republican to begin with?
Of course we due note that in this last election the military voted
for Obama...they were so disgusted with the Republican Party.
Did you know that the military have a name for the disgusting
overweight Republican body type...they call it Basil Butt.
TMT
If you stopped licking at my butt, you wouldn't have all that Basil Breath!
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