Posted on Mar 14, 2021
How the Army combat fitness test exposes the military's unhealthy focus on 'making weight'
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I wholeheartedly concur with this proposal. My 6'1" Father liked petite women, My Mother was a 4'11" Woman of the Stuart Line. Ask Me how tall I am and I'll stretch the truth a smidge. I never made weight while active, For a person of My particulars, weight was 168#. I weighed more than that when I got to Basic and I left Basic the same weight as when I got there. Under the APFT I was a consistent 300 pointer. I was running marathon distances 2 to 3 times a week. I'd run with a fanny pack that had a walkman and a pack of Winstons. Yeah I smoked while I was running. And, had to buy new running shoes every couple of months. I wore the smallest Male BDU pants available and a medium top. But every weigh in the company had to do the fat boy paperwork and send Me for the caliper(pinch) test. The Height/Weight table is an arbitrary thing that really has no basis in real life.
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SPC Michael Terrell, Alot of the DS "mad" is really part of the "Break You down to then rebuild You as a Soldier" If They stayed mad 24/7 They'd be exhausted. A close look at Your Medical jacket for that time would probably indicate the attending physician thought You need a higher caloric intake. But, I'm no Dr. just an observer.
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SPC Michael Terrell
SGT (Join to see) - He was pissed that I had tested out of a three year Engineering school, while I was in Basic. He also didn't like that I showed him up, on Visitor's day when I picked up the huge coil of rope for tug of war, flipped it up and over my head, onto a flatbed truck. That was the day he stopped trying to get me into the boxing ring. I never could run very well, but I had a lot of upper body strength. I had picked up a Pontiac 389 short block, bare handed a few weeks before I went into the Army. He had told me to wait until he found four or five more 'volunteers' to help load that coil of rope. I used to deliver color TV consoles up several flights of stairs, without help, or a dolly. I'm not claiming to be anything special, but he didn't think much of a TV repairman who was self taught, and had passed the hardest test in the Army without going to the school at Ft. Monmouth.
I also chewed him out one day in front of our captain. He refused to pronounce my family name properly, and I ignored him when he did that, because another soldier in our platoon pronounced it his way. Then he insulted my entire family. I told him that he had no right to speak that way about my family. and that I demanded that he show them the respect due to them. Our Captain was behind him, and chewed his ass out.
BTW, this was at Ft. Knox, and a quarry owned by my uncle supplied most of the crushed stone for the roadbed for the highways in Kentucky. 'Terrell' was well known in that area, and it wasn't pronounced his way.
I also chewed him out one day in front of our captain. He refused to pronounce my family name properly, and I ignored him when he did that, because another soldier in our platoon pronounced it his way. Then he insulted my entire family. I told him that he had no right to speak that way about my family. and that I demanded that he show them the respect due to them. Our Captain was behind him, and chewed his ass out.
BTW, this was at Ft. Knox, and a quarry owned by my uncle supplied most of the crushed stone for the roadbed for the highways in Kentucky. 'Terrell' was well known in that area, and it wasn't pronounced his way.
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