Hi, this reminds me of the poor smoker who does not get informed by the cigaret makers that he could suffer the consequences of smoking .
Get with it, boy. Guenter > You mentioned how the military is falling short on it's recruitment > goals. > This topic gets me somewhat upset because our military is not willing to > combat the obesity problem. One of the reasons I get upset about this is > because by their standards, I am considered to be obese and I wanted to > get > into the service. Time and time again, I have been told I was too fat and > with recent statistics showing that over half of the American population > is > considered to be obese. The military doesn't take the time to mention the > potential candidates that they turn away because they are too fat. They > have > the means and the power to combat this problem but yet they choose to > ignore > it flat out. So many otherwise qualified people would join up for the > military if they would be willing to consider working with the obesity > problem and instilling the proper habits necessary to keeping the weight > off. Most Americans don't have access for one reason or another to the > type > of assistance need to be on a proper nutritious diet and if you asked > anyone > off the street, not many could tell you what a good diet really is let > alone > explain one. This problem, is one the military would do well to combat > because they have the ways and the means. Obesity is killing more > Americans > than Osama and his cronies ever will. I love our military and the people > that serve in it. I know that most of them don't make policies and > procedures, they just follow it, but in times like this It just makes me > sick to have to listen to "We fell short of our recruitment goals" because > the part they don't tell you is that that they had to turn away the poor > fat > slob that they have to go put their lives on the line for. Most service > people would rather trash talk the poor fat slob instead of put him to > work. > They haven't stopped to consider the reason that maybe they are poor and > fat is because the military said no to them? It just makes me sick to > listen > to it. We know what the problem is and we have the solution to fix and > address the problem but yet we let it persist and we just stand there > doing > nothing about it. People don't learn discipline on their own, they learn > habits. Discipline needs to be taught. How can the populace be sympathetic > to that when most just don't want to hear it? If the military wants to > boost > recruitment goals and morale among the troops, giving the people that they > said no to a chance, I believe that many of them would make excellent > service members. It would open up a whole new pool of potential candidates > to draw from and it would drastically impact the looming healthcare > problem > into the favor of the American people. > > Iron Mike -- GMX DSL = Maximale Leistung zum minimalen Preis! 2000 MB nur 2,99, Flatrate ab 4,99 Euro/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ The Golden Rule is my daily rule. To send mail to everyone on the RangerNet mailing list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only list members may post. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://lists.rangernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rangernet
