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My favourite bit of all of this.
Someone remind me what fat orange bag of festering mayonnaise if at the top of these joint forces. I forget his name. I don't really see him doing jumping jacks.
Why would a height requirement need to be checked twice a year?
Well apparently Trump is shrinking because he’s supposed to be 6’3”
Doesn't make sense. Shorter soldiers have smaller hitboxes.
Source: N64 Goldeneye Oddjob
It sounds like dipshit thinks BMI is a good standard for fitness measurement
Not just Hegseth. The US military has always used BMI as part of fitness standards.
I remember having BMI tests before training and once in boot camp, but not after I got to my first duty station. I was quite underweight when I was serving, but that was so long ago that I assumed they'd moved on to a better standard by now lol
When I was in the Army they used BMI, and if you failed BMI you had to get a pinch test to measure body fat. I had to do it because I was 6'4" (193cm) and 225lbs (102kgs) which is overweight by BMI standards.
No, this is a great idea. We should all get on Social Media and challenge the Snowflake-in-chief's ability to do the jumping jacks he is asking his troops to do. Taunt him with old videos of Jack LaLanne, since he seems stuck in the 80's culturally. With any luck, the problem will solve itself.
He literally said he can't even walk without being careful so he doesn't fall down, and he's acused exercise of shortening the lifespan because you have a finite number of heartbeats or something. In other words, the troops are expendable because shortening their lifespans through exercise is perfectly acceptable. Some animals are more equal and all that.
There are fat service members in BCP that probably PT harder than any of these fucks in charge.
I'm guessing Hegseth actually does workout regularly. It's part of his Master Race schtick. He likes to look good while showing off his white supremacy tattoos.
"A Nazi worked out today; did you?”
I wonder what sort of cocktails he has before a workout. Probably, some come in a syringe.
He should challenge them to a fight on the Whitehouse lawn.
CIC Bonespurs?