Is there nothing COVID can’t do?
Pandemic Caused Active-Duty Obesity
The DoD updated its 20-year-old policy March of last year to establish body composition and physical fitness standards for active-duty service members.
The revised DoD Instruction 1308.03 states all service members “will maintain physical readiness by possessing the necessary body composition and aerobic and anaerobic fitness to successfully perform in accordance with their service-specific requirements, missions, and military specialties.”
The backbone of this policy is the body fat standard that defines the acceptable body composition range for active-duty service members.
Big Army has a big fat problem.
Pandemic pounds push 10,000 U.S. Army soldiers into obesity
Obesity in the U.S. military surged during the COVID-19 pandemic
By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer
After gaining 30 pounds during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Murillo is finally getting back into fighting shape.
Early pandemic lockdowns, endless hours on his laptop and heightened stress led Murillo, 27, to reach for cookies and chips in the barracks at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Gyms were closed, organized exercise was out and Murillo’s motivation to work out on his own was low.
“I could notice it,” said Murillo, who is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighed as much as 192 pounds. “The uniform was tighter.”
Murillo wasn’t the only service member dealing with extra weight. New research found that obesity in the U.S. military surged during the pandemic.
Shades of jelly donuts! Recruitment is way down for reasons beyond the grasp of what passes for Leadership these days, so recycling fat-bodies makes sense. Pardon my lack of sympathy for those suffering from self-inflicted standards failure, and now these motive challenged members get a second bite at the apple. I’m sure this will be officially recorded on performance evaluations, in fairness to those who were professional enough to,
What was I thinking? Never mind.
Category: Big Pentagon, It's science!
Thin is in and fat is where it’s at
Air Force just lowered its body fat standards to get recruits: from 20% male/28% female to 26% male/38% female.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/air-force-allow-more-body-175117556.html
“COVID made me fat!”
“COVID made me a shut- in!”
“COVID made me …”
AAHHHH shut up and start getting out again, that’s what you get for saying “*MOOOO!*, *BA-A-A-A-A-A!*” and following the herd!
No body shaming, girth does not define grit.
(sorry, it had to be done…grin)
The Phil Monkress continues to be strong in this loser….
He stole ALL the valor and ALL the biscuits and gravy!
Agreed.
One would assume that this turd was a steak and potatoes man, but he seems to be all about slurping up the gravy.
Phildostyle.
I’m no expert, but I believe this dude is wearing WWII and Korean War decorations. Among others! And,,, he managed to get a “V” device for the Global War on Terror Service Medal.🤷♂️! Shouldn’t the cord go on the button but under the shoulder board?
One thing, he and I are both recipients of the coveted NDSM! So there’s that!
Yes, the aguillettes are normally worn under the shoulder strap or epaulet. But there are pics of Marine enlisted men in formation wearing them as is this clown.
I guess that the Chinese Communist Originated Virus Infecting Disease has replaced the devil in making people do things? Flip Wilson (AKA Geraldine) grins.
Ahhh
My last Fortune Cookie said Round was A shape…Interesting Times it must be!
Maybe U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel Murillo was a fucking lazy fatboy to begin with and lacked the self discipline to PT on his own and eat right. But hey, COVID did it, right?
Who knows?
And the Army goes rolling along…
Hey, I call BS, this guy was in Iraq before 2019:
NG.
What a turd.
Are those mosquito wings or Corporal stripes on his sleeve? Maybe even three stripe Private? Hard to see.
Love the chow in his hand.
Clown.
Corporal.
We had a few when we went to AJ in Kuwait
for two weeks that made this blob look skinny
No, wait, there’s more… just like Ron Popeil said!
PEO Soldier’s high-speed concept:
Worn by actual Joe (not the same as w/ the pizza):
That picture never gets old. Jonn used to throw it up on his posts back in the day…🤣
To paraphrase Homer Simpson. Covid, is there anything it can’t do?
They always slow down the chapter cases when retention is tough.
Cannot wait for when being overweigh/fat/obese is considered a protected class like trans. Only a matter of time.
Had a fat boy in basic that got re cycled but not before being
tortured in PT exercises. I’m mean they really focused on him
with taunts and jeers. Poor guy musta been US.
We had a “baby huey”. Dude looked worse than “Pyle” in FMJ. They rode him like a rented moped. Couldn’t do ten push-ups. Should have never gotten out of Reception. They bird-fed him. Smoked him. Ran his ass extra.
He never flinched. Wouldn’t bitch. Did more on his own. Jogged in place if we were standing around. Screamed trying to do one more pushup, betrayed by the lard suit.
Weeks later, was still like fifty overweight. Blob. Couldn’t do 20.
Would not bitch.
Finally, they shipped his ass off to FTU. Didn’t bitch. Looked like he wanted to cry, beet red with shame, but didnt bitch. Said “won’t quit!”
Dang if he didn’t come see us graduation week. Had dropped like 30+. Had earned his way out of FTU and recycled into another unit. Was earning his way to graduation. “I won’t quit!”. Thanked every Drill for riding him. “Won’t quit”.
Gotta pay attention to “heart”. Some folks were raised wrong, and fix it. Yeah, rare, maybe, but if he stuck with it, bet he was a good one.
There was a female 85lb-overweight troop where i was doing my specialty training before going to my first unit. (The old she’ll lose that weight in Basic, AIT, her first unit, etc. pass-along in action.) She looked like a beer barrel with tits and her “running” around the track for extra PT was slower than most could walk. She wound up at my unit (combat arms, Korea) and, hating it, signed-in at recruiter while home on mid-tour. Never lost anything.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
It’s Faaaaaaaaaat Asshole!
Who is this dude?
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“he turned to a military dietician and started a strict exercise routine through the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness, or H2F, program.”
Oh, do please tell me again how the new, volunteer military is so superior to that nasty old military that used conscription when there were not enough volunteers.
So Meal Team Six ate the Army?
Interesting. Currently 55 years old and still on AD. I weighed 178.84 Lbs at the end of FEB 2019 at COVID start. At the end of MAR 23 I now weigh 181.27. I briefly ranged up to 185.45: aahh the COVID got me!!! (Wait that was this year; it’s called 3 weeks on leave, but now I’m back down.) No need for special accommodations. My mess dress is still tight and I’ll fix that-it’s called “discipline, self, 1 ea.”
Theme music:
Fat – Weird Al
Every once in awhile I get a Jonesing for a doughnut, especially a glazed or jelly filled doughnut.
But looking at the pics of those two corpulent corporals put me straight off that want and desire.
Where did they get their uniforms? Omar the Tent Maker?
I didn’t realize that muumuus came in camouflage.
?Where did they get their uniforms? Omar the Tent Maker?”
That or the Eureka Tent Company®™!
Ed. Your above pic was likely taken of a Vietnam War reenactor. He is carrying a M-16A1 or its replica and he is wearing Vietnam era battle rattle, including camo fatigues that were worn by Marines. I have seen pics and video of them, but they are quite few in numbers. As a Civil War cavalry reenactor and Vietnam vet, I could never see the attraction.
He may have used as a roll model one of two E-7 Platoon sergeants or an E-5 Anti-tank Section leader in my company in Germany back in that era. One of the E-7s couldn’t fit through any hatch in the M-113 and they had to lower the ramp for him to exit or enter. The other E-7 was also blind in one eye. The E-5 broke the M-151 he rode in–it “limped” (listed) on the passenger side.
Ooops!
Should be “role” model, not “roll” model, but I guess “roll” could also work.
Well, sh*t, I had Vietnam era battle rattle until OIF I– that stupid nylon vest we got instead melted/burned when hit with pyro.
lol WTF did they expect to happen
I will turn 58 next month, have 40 years of service in September, and took my AFPFT Sunday for my Air Guard status. I am 65″ tall and still weigh 168, got off active duty from the Army 29 years ago in August, and only weighed 165 then. I work in a physical career field, and also take my self seriously so know that I have to at least meet the standard, and exceed enough that my COC feels I’m a viable asset.
I have no sympathy for those who lack the discipline to keep themselves fit, and at least moderately healthy.