"More than a quarter of young adults are unable to meet physical requirements to join the military, creating a potential threat to national security, a group of retired armed forces leaders said Tuesday."
CNN Link
That's been all over our local news today also.
I guess the Military will just lower standards again. Didn't they lower the threshold a few years ago for test scores?
And yet DADT is still in effect...
Getting rid of that would certainly raise recruitment rates.
I was actually more disturbed that the military had let all kinds of fast food chains onto their installations until recently:
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/05/2257940.aspx
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