And this is true for all the services. I doubt it's a coincidence that this announcement was made a week or two after they released that they all failed to meet their recruiting numbers for last year.
Fitness standards go up when the military is full and has high retention and go down when they're desperate to fill slots.
What was always hilarious to me was it failing a fit test would prevent positive personnel actions like a PCS or promotion, but not a deployment. If they were truly concerned about fitness as a readiness issue like they say they are, all those fatties would be non-deployable.
And this is true for all the services. I doubt it's a coincidence that this announcement was made a week or two after they released that they all failed to meet their recruiting numbers for last year. Fitness standards go up when the military is full and has high retention and go down when they're desperate to fill slots.
What was always hilarious to me was it failing a fit test would prevent positive personnel actions like a PCS or promotion, but not a deployment. If they were truly concerned about fitness as a readiness issue like they say they are, all those fatties would be non-deployable.