Rachel S. Cohen – Air Force Times April 3, 2023
The Air Force has loosened its restrictions on body fat for new recruits, one of the latest moves to grow the pool of potential applicants amid the military’s recruiting crisis.In the past, men and women’s bodies needed to be 20% or 28% fat, respectively, to be eligible for service. That benchmark is now 26% for men and 36% for women, Air Force Recruiting Service spokesperson Leslie Brown said Monday.
The American Council on Exercise categorizes as obese those with body fat percentages over 25% for men and 32% for women. The old Air Force benchmark fell into the range of “acceptable” fat, according to the organization.
Officials changed the body fat standard based on the recommendation of a team, led by Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin, that was formed to look at recruiting challenges. They anticipate that 50 to 100 more people could join the Air Force each month as a result, Brown said.
The change reflects an attempt to adapt to the national obesity crisis that has stymied military recruiting compared to earlier, svelter decades.
A Johns Hopkins University study published in 2021 and updated in February found that more than half of Americans age 18-25 are overweight or obese, based on their body mass index. BMI is one measure of body composition that is calculated by dividing a person’s weight by their height.
The percentage of Americans in that age range with a BMI indicating a normal weight dropped from about 70% to 34% between 1976 and 2018, the study found.
Last month, Air Force personnel boss Lt. Gen. Caroline Miller told congressional lawmakers the service expected to miss its fiscal 2023 active duty recruiting goal by around 4,100 people. The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve project they will fall short by about 4,600 and 3,600 recruits, respectively.
Halfway through the fiscal year, the active duty Air Force has brought in less than 50% of its goal of 26,877 new airmen for 2023. Around 11,200 recruits have come in so far, Miller said.
Weight isn’t the only factor holding the Air Force back. A strong civilian job market and a lack of interest in the military have become major roadblocks among young Americans, recruiting officials say. And the Pentagon still has dozens of other health restrictions, from eczema to diabetes to antidepressant use, that could disqualify applicants.
Whatever their body composition when they join, new airmen will be subjected to the same annual fitness tests and standards as everyone else.
Mr. and Misses Blobby for the kike ( eh, I do mean the U.S. ) air force. Well they’ll make bigger targets for the Russian Migs LOL
They’re mad to think fat people want to join the military. Fat people don’t want to run around, it’s one of the reasons they’re fat. They stopped attracting the right candidates because they do unacceptable things. They reinvented torture but call it enhanced interrogation. They drone-strike weddings and funerals in countries they’re trying to steal, then double-tap minutes later to kill the rescuers – absolute atrocities yet to sink in with western populations but not lost on those who might otherwise have wanted to enlist.
This woke nonsense was the last mistake and it they need to reverse these loose morals. Men in showers don’t want homosexual men flaunting their naked ‘passion’ towards them, and women in showers don’t want trans-“women” doing the same thing. Right-minded people don’t risk their lives to endure that.
The US military is around 50% of the US economy. So you have the arms developers and manufactures, the suppliers to the military, that’s a global operation, then you have sheeple pay, and pensions, and they have a massive effect on the economies around military bases.
So it doesn’t matter if they are fit to fight. US special forces need to be flown in and out by chopper. Oh, we’re exceptional, we don’t need planes that can dog-fight, so they end up with F35 flying bathtubs. A vid came into my feed of an F35 doing the March Loop. All it could do was roll from side to side. There was virtually no turns.
The US hasn’t fought a peer power for so long, that the idea they could go toe to toe with Russia or China, is a joke. There’s only one areabof the US military that can punch its weight, and that is its submarine fleet.
Funny, because gravity is your enemy in an aeroplane, and fat is an enemy of your joints in any case
Soldiers like these are in the army for the food. Illegal economic migrants are in it for the citizenship and others are in it for the money. Devoid of any guiding principles they resort to unprecedented violence and brutality against defenseless civilians and against themselves in the form of ‘friendly fire’ and suicide.
They will join the current trannies, queers, dykes and other woke freaks occupying the U.S. Armed Forces.
Perv Joe, Camel Toe Harris and their Jewish overlords will have their army of cream puffs to be devoured on the battlefield.
they need joystick servers for remotecontroled
drones + missiles . this is the way future wars
go + most victims will be civilian citizens !
WARS SINCE 500YEARS MORE + MORE
PERVERTED ! generals make it possible !
Well, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. All they have to do, is to re-design the cockpit of the aircraft, for the comfort of the wider-of-girth type pilots and then, re-engineer the nose of the plane to compensate for the additional mass during flight.
I bet that hp could work out the schematics, blindfolded.
“FATTER recruits now welcome as Air Force revises rules…”
Presumably they’ll be flying JUMBO Jets…🤔
😅😂🤣
Sometimes big things come in big packages.
Perhaps even more often than you’d think.
“Whatever their body composition when they join, new airmen will be subjected to the same annual fitness tests and standards as everyone else.” -Article
I guarantee you NOT! They changed everything to let the women in areas they should not be. They simply brought all the requirements down to the level women could handle for everyone. They’ll change the requirements for these freaks as well.
Ninety percent of the country have a mental disease which will destroy it. This disease happens to all empires and their is no cure or vaccine.
Which is fine with me… let the place collapse… it’s the only way to possibly salvage it or some of it.
AntiJHWH nailed it a long time ago,
No army need human’s out there anymore,
It’s all drones & missiles now, (or could be).
The fact they still need bodies, To suffer, especially ‘whitie’, tells us all it’s stiff-cock ritual & blood sacrifice for the benefit of the Evil’s running the show.
‘They’ are mentally sick for sure,
But what baffles me now, It’s so obvious, WHY do people still volunteer to ‘join up’?
& why anyone would want to be in ‘a police force’ & carry out the tasks they do, is another ‘does not compute’ moment for me. What are they thinking ?
FAT BASTARDS
American men area joke US women advertise heavily in the UK for English uncircumcised men
e g not on fentanyl not fat and not poofs
US men have been mind controlled and are good for nothing
they left Afghanistan a third world country using many weapons left over from W W 2
with their tale between their legs
Now a country of queers and shirt lifters said Dr Savid Cohen
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/04/06/701088/US-admits-massive-failure-in-humiliating-Afghan-withdrawal