Trump may have jumped the gun last night bragging about his military meeting recruiting numbers, unlike Biden's kitty enbie military that lowered requirements for chicks and 
s. Looks like the recruiters have still been putting their finger on the scale. 
According to the report, trainees have been allowed to join at up to 19% above the standard -- meaning some male recruits may have had body fat percentages as high as 45% and female recruits reaching 55%, levels that would likely be considered morbidly obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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I had 8 applicants arrive to MEPS yesterday for a physical/enlist combination and 6 of them were both DQ'd for medical reasons and administratively for BF composition. One younger male was 12% over the standard and the RRNCO was positive "he was good."
If you actually say it out loud, in what world is a 17yo, non-athletic build who is 5' 9" and 257lbs able to make it through BCT.
This is after last year's reports that 70% of active duty is overweight and 20% is obese. (I'm curious though how much of this could actually be muscle mass overweight. That's probably being to generous though.)
https://www.cdc.gov/physical-activity/php/military-readiness/unfit-to-serve.html
I keep seeing other stuff about letting in more people failing the ASVAB, which I was under the impression in high school wasn't even a pass/fail and had a tier for "functionally r-slurred, would be a parking lot attendant as a civilian".
So both Biden and Trump just want the military full of fat, r-slurred people for some reason. Hope our drones are getting better for the war with China or there are going to be a lot more deaths from heart attacks than bullets on the beaches of Taiwan. In a fight, I would probably place bets on a bull 
and a roided up pooner over some thousand pound TLC show rejects, but who knows if either could beat a swarm of chinks with whatever dinnerware their catatonic families have cobbled into weapons on the Great Assembly Line of China.
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Near peer means Russia, China, or EU essentially. No reason for the move towards trying to penetrate body armor
and a few other things we've been working 
towards
We've been prepping
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Pentagon needs to justify the budget. Sometimes things get upgraded just because there is money for it.
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Has been a meme for 40 years at this point. Defeating body armor with individual weapons is relatively low priority in every situation except room-clearing, the whole Boogeyman of VDV landing behind the lines and being able to shrug off 9mm like it's airsoft was invented by H&K to sell the MP7 (which, btw, couldn't penetrate the body armor a Soviet paratrooper would likely wear, and definitely can't penetrate modern ceramic plate that can take a few .308s), and most casualties are caused by explosive anyways, where body armor saves lives but generally doesn't prevent incapacitation so it's a moot point. Worrying about individual rifle cartridges is very silly.
We should be worrying about the fact that the Chinese can crank out cruise missiles and ships very quickly while we can't
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The point
was there's already little 
point 
because Russia, China, and the EU are the only ones who utilize it on their grunts
So any push to penetrate it means we're prepping to fight
one of those 3
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