Yesterday we posted Markeshia Ricks’ story on airmen booted for of failing PT standards. Today’s story, from Army Times’ Lance Bacon, is about the Army’s take on weight-related discharges.
Lance writes:
Army brass sounded the warning more than a year ago: Trim the fat, or you’ll be cut when we trim the force.
Those cuts have begun.
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The service in September discharged more than 450 soldiers who failed to meet weight standards — more than the number of people discharged for similar cause in the entire previous year, said Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler.
And that is just the beginning.
Read the rest of Lance’s story over on Army Times.
Tuesday: Failing PT standards getting more airmen booted
Thursday:
