Kevin Ammerman really wanted to join the Army
Pinto Nag sends us a link to a MSN video about Indianan 34-year-old Kevin Ammerman who really wanted to join the Army – he lost 160 pounds to meet the weight standards. I weighed 127 pounds when I joined, so he lost another whole recruit’s weight. Good job, Kevin!
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An example of someone with a goal who decides they are going to reach it. Now if he can just maintain it.
Hell yeah. get some.
Sweet mother Marie, rock on, Kev. Pound it off, keep it off.
When toting the gorilla bag I had some peeps work hard on weight loss to enlist, but none like that. Good work!
Good luck in training, Kevin! Hang tough, guy!
Wait!? Why go to all that effort when he can just go down to the milsurp store and pick up a set of GP-Medium BDUs and a few shiny medals and ribbons and voila! All the glory with none of the sweat!
Just kidding of course… This. Is the right way. Way to go Kevin!
Outstanding!! he lost more weight that I had on me when I enlisted also. Went in at 145, came out of AIT at 168.
Let me guess. That extra twenty pounds was muscle and attitude, right?
All muscle, I had the attitude knocked out of me at Ft Bennings School for Wayward Boys, Harmony Church 1983. Then BAC at Benning January 1984, where I learned to be a cockey Paratrooper.
Standing in line to receive our first gear issue, one of the Company Commanders (Navy speak~ DI, whatever) stopped, looked at me, and said, “You’ll never make it you fat fuck.” Eight weeks later I graduated with my company, went from 250 pounds to 185. If you really want to lose weight, go through basic in Great Mistakes in July…
God, I love the Navy!
Good on you young man. Carry on.
As a side note, the term to describe a native of Indiana is Hoosier, not Indianan.
There are at least a half dozen or more of us here at TAH that can attest to that.
We stand by our nickname regardless of what those folks in St. Louis think of us.
A Hoosier by name roster is available upon request.
Is that short for “who’s your daddy?”
No.
You beat me to it. I’ve heard many legends about how the name came about. One of the is their was a bar fight and afterwards someone picked up an ear and asked “who’s ear”.
Spell check approved Indianan.
Jonn, Spell check is not a native Hoosier./smile
Fellow Hoosier here
“Hoosier”, are you sure it ain’t like, “HOSER” eh? TAKE OFF!! 😀
No, it’s all cool.
I made the comment only in fun. I hope no one took me as being serious.
Just another facet of my dry Hoosier sense of humor.
Day-um. Someone working to get their glory the RIGHT way. GO KEVIN!!
ANd may you serve with HOIN
Day-um. Someone working to get their glory the RIGHT way. GO KEVIN!!
ANd may you serve with HONOR and DISTINCTION for as long as you’re able.
Good for him. There is a dedicated guy under what was there before. Nice lookin’ dude, too.
Not as impressive, but when I wanted to go to OCS, I lost fifty pounds in two months. Then I was talked out of enlisting or commissioning by friends who were in and seeing the political environment. Which is good, because I’d have said something and ducked myself, no doubt.
I knew a guy in my first platoon that lost 90 lbs to get into the Army. 127 Jonn? Bet they made you hump the 60 in basic all the time too. Everybody likes to see the little guy hump the 60/240 or for you 11C out there, the base plate. Embrace the suck.
Actually, using the “little” guy as your crew-served gunner used to be the rule as they were a smaller target and less likely to get hit.
My step-dad was a Marine and his first assignment was as the Plt 60 gunner. He said it was because he was the shortest guy in the Plt – he is 6’7″…
Humped the baseplate for the 81MM, as well as every other piece over the years, as well as being the RTO for a spell jumping and humping that PRC-77/KY spare batteries for both, etc…I have the x-rays and MRI images to prove it too. Foloow Me! AATW! Let’s Go!
Great story!
Most impressive, Kevin! You are an inspiration!
127 lbs? I’m impressed Jonn. I thought I was a lightweight. I was about 132 when I did infantry basic in the IDF. It got kinda tough when they would assign me the FN MAG or the patrol radio.
As for the star of this story – big BZ! That kind of determination can take him far and help him do some really good things.
BRAVO ZULU Kevin, now all you have is Basic & AIT to deal with!! We had a fellow in my OSUT platoon who only lost 84 pounds between the beginning of Basic and the end of AIT, his own Mom walked right past him on Graduation Day without recognizing him!!
Nice congrats, talk about will power I love it
34 y/o private. Wow!