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Fat, unhealthy Americans threaten Trump’s defense surge
Rising obesity numbers, drug use, criminal backgrounds and other problems mean most people at prime military recruiting age are ineligible to serve. By Bryan Bender.
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It'n not just a problem with the recruiting age pool. There's an obesity problem with those already in service. Being fat and very physically active leads to injury.
New policy of admin separating or medical discharging those who have been non-deployable for 12 months may see more than 200,000 service members out the door. So you have to replace those as well before you can thinking about growing the ranks.
From a shrinking pool.