75 Percent of Young Americans Are Unfit for Military Duty Options

[*Janette*]

The latest Army statistics show a stunning 75 percent of military-age youth are ineligible to join the military because they are overweight, can't pass entrance exams, have dropped out of high school or had run-ins with the law.

So many young people between the prime recruiting ages of 17 and 24 cannot meet minimum standards that a group of retired military leaders is calling for more investment in early childhood education to combat the insidious effects of junk food and inadequate education.

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Thoughts?

[karmakiller]

^ Yeah, I keep hearing about funding getting cut for schools so they cut out music programs and P.E. then people complain that American kids are getting fat and unhealthy and are blaming it on the fact that so many schools are cutting P.E., but even when I had P.E. 5 days a week for 45 minutes it didn't change the activity of the people in those classes. Kids who didn't want to do whatever was going on that day in class either didn't show up or just didn't participate. It's nice and all that they want do have better school programs to get kids active, but they also need to find a way to motivate kids to want to be active so that develop habits that will follow them into adulthood (and that they will hopefully pass on to their kids).