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Obesity costing US military

When I was active duty they were kicking out fat bodies. One of my friends got kicked out for being fat. He had just re-enlisted for 6 years. Our Master Chief was furious that they had to pay him his re-enlistment bonus. He got around $37K from the Navy when they booted him.
 
JR4X said:
I drink beer and eat bacon. But I don’t consume pasta bread or sugar. Gravy counts as liquid bread because it’s just milk and flour, so I don’t eat that either. I think we’re the same-ish age. Let’s see who’s the last one shit posting on the ibb 🍺
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No pasta or sugar either, breads we do eat though. The only gravy i make is no milk, flour. I use sour cream (sm amnt) in place of milk and then tapioca starch, aromatics, soy, a pinch of salt and water. Sometimes we'll use almond milk if there's no sour cream.

I like mexican food so we'll make chicken dishes and fish a lot, and sometimes vegetarian. Black beans, avos in abundance, cheeses i still love, olives jalapenos etc.

Fruit (fresh summer, frozen winter) any and all berries but especially blueberries, pineapple, kiwi, bananas and any/all citrus except grapefruit (which i love)... but no apples

Protein (chkn, fish mostly)

Vegg (squashes, yams, sweet potatoes, bell pprs but not green as i hate those, brocc n cauli, carrots, radishes, cukes etc)

Eggs almost daily (free range if on sale)

Nuts (walnuts cashews macadamia almonds)

I've sworn off lunchmeat sausage bacon pork etc except for the occasional beef/pork roast, but very infrequently.

I'm a sucker for a great sourdough and classic rye breads. :homer:
 
billdacat said:
On a fucking destroyer when they set battle station and conditon "Zebra".... Fatties are not going to fit through that fucking hatch. :smokin::smokin::smokin:
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False. Hatches have an opening of 35.4 inches.
 
Aisin said:
False. Hatches have an opening of 35.4 inches.
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You haven't been on a destroyer lately. Fucking zebra hatch is much smaller then 3'.. I was a contractor; one of the few peeps allowed to break that condition. I think they were someting like 24".... I am south of 200lb, didn't have much wiggle room... 34" waist...

Whoe.... I might have Z mixed up with X.....WTF. This is what happens when you get old!

 
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trampas said:
I'm smarter than you are :flipoff2:
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How thee fuck do you get allowed to be FAT, Im unclesams fag brigade today...
Oh
Wait.
:shaking:
 
Aisin said:
When I was active duty they were kicking out fat bodies. One of my friends got kicked out for being fat. He had just re-enlisted for 6 years. Our Master Chief was furious that they had to pay him his re-enlistment bonus. He got around $37K from the Navy when they booted him.
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Holy crap! How fat does a fucker have to be in order to be kicked out of the fattest branch, the Navy?:flipoff2:
 
I thought this was going to be due to the cost of food going up. :laughing:

trampas said:
Probably the last time i ate gravy that i didn't make myself... aww hell i can't even remember when.

Eat bacon somewhere around once a year. Haven't bought any in 2024 yet so i should be gettin' a hankering here pretty soon :laughing:

Double your pleasure? Nope. But i might still be around in my mid 90s since all my grandparents were...
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Idk how we are going to last with another 10 years of your postings :flipoff2:

ridenby said:
That fucker is FAT. Bigger fucks should be put down.
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Or we spend that money on regulating the food industry to make proper food again.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Holy crap! How fat does a fucker have to be in order to be kicked out of the fattest branch, the Navy?:flipoff2:
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Army was the fattest branch by far then. I was shocked at the amount of sloppy fat fucks that I saw in Afghanistan.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Holy crap! How fat does a fucker have to be in order to be kicked out of the fattest branch, the Navy?:flipoff2:
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back in the 80-90s we had a bunch of fat people in the Navy .
I see a lot more now days , was at an air force base couple days ago , lots of them .
we had a weight lifter in my squadron that was on the fat boy program cause he was big, Navy can't tell the different between muscle or fat.
 
mdmike said:
Please correct me if I'm wrong, because I have never served any time in the Military, but I thought all branches had a built-in "fat camp"?

I remember watching something on TV as a kid where a bunch of overweight guys went to boot camp and had to spend an extra couple weeks slimming down before they could actually start boot camp.

Don't those guys get fired back down the hill to "fat camp", or they just get discharged?

I mean no disrespect by this post, because I'm green to the whole thing.
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I remember one guy at navy boot that was dropped back 2 weeks into our company for being fat, his laundry was lost somewhere his tee shirt was turning green , not sure if he graduated with us all i remember is that tee shirt.
 
Aisin said:
Army was the fattest branch by far then. I was shocked at the amount of sloppy fat fucks that I saw in Afghanistan.
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Nope. Statistics show that the Navy is consitently the fattest, as their regs allow for it.

Those slobs you saw in the 'Stan were probably National Guard fuckers casting a bad light on the Army as a whole. Happens every deployment.
 
Aisin said:
Army was the fattest branch by far then. I was shocked at the amount of sloppy fat fucks that I saw in Afghanistan.
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Those were most likely reservists. Having been around all of the services, the Navy seemed to have the most fat bodies on active duty. Reserves are a hot mess. The Coast Guard is technically .mil, but they don't seem to have any PT tests or standards and have a lot of people who would pass a float check.

EDIT: Nasty Guard or Reservists as pointed out by DRTDEVL
 
Pony_Driver said:
Those were most likely reservists. Having been around all of the services, the Navy seemed to have the most fat bodies on active duty. Reserves are a hot mess. The Coast Guard is technically .mil, but they don't seem to have any PT tests or standards and have a lot of people who would pass a float check.

EDIT: Nasty Guard or Reservists as pointed out by DRTDEVL
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Yup. This guy was NG...
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As was this guy:
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You won't find these guys gracing an active duty formation, they'd have been sent back to Fort Living Room long before they got this big, barring any medical issues.
 
trampas said:
Probably the last time i ate gravy that i didn't make myself... aww hell i can't even remember when.

Eat bacon somewhere around once a year. Haven't bought any in 2024 yet so i should be gettin' a hankering here pretty soon :laughing:

Double your pleasure? Nope. But i might still be around in my mid 90s since all my grandparents were...
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Live a little:flipoff2:
 
Pony_Driver said:
The Coast Guard is technically .mil, but they don't seem to have any PT tests or standards and have a lot of people who would pass a float check.
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Uhmmm no to all of the above. Coast guard is now DHS. Has pretty high standards and you have to pass them the third day of boot not at the end like everyone else. Pride themselves on their (incredibly high) rejection/failure rate. There were two active duty marines in my training class who were trying to change branches. One of them went home with me on the fail bus because he failed his run same as me.
 
Mikenike said:
Uhmmm no to all of the above. Coast guard is now DHS. Has pretty high standards and you have to pass them the third day of boot not at the end like everyone else. Pride themselves on their (incredibly high) rejection/failure rate. There were two active duty marines in my training class who were trying to change branches. One of them went home with me on the fail bus because he failed his run same as me.
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Maybe up front, but I have seen some obese Coasties.
 
I’m not condoning it, but how many guys really need to be in shape? Infantry, anybody who’s going to see combat. Stuff like that needs to be in shape. I’ve got a cousin who sat at a console in South Korea and listened to North Korea. He was skinny and one of those crazy fuckers that enjoyed running, but if he’d been fat what difference would it have made? Fat guys can do that stuff better than some gang banger from Mexico or El Salvador.
 
Mikenike said:
Uhmmm no to all of the above. Coast guard is now DHS. Has pretty high standards and you have to pass them the third day of boot not at the end like everyone else. Pride themselves on their (incredibly high) rejection/failure rate. There were two active duty marines in my training class who were trying to change branches. One of them went home with me on the fail bus because he failed his run same as me.
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Yeah, but...
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MaleFemale
Push-ups (60 sec)2915
Sit-ups (60 sec)3832
Run (1.5 mile)12:5115.26
Sit and reach*16.50 "19.29"
Complete swim circuit testTread water 5 minutes
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:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:
 
DRTDEVL said:
Yeah, but...

:lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao::lmao:
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High standards was perhaps poor wording. :lmao::homer:Point still stands though. I bet half this board couldn't even do that.:flipoff2: Also again unlike the army pukes you didnt get 8 weeks to get into shape first. That is day 3 required after you have had nothing but a few brown bag turkey sandwiches for meals. Didnt say it was the seals. Just said it wasn't 0 requirements like he said. Also seems lower than i remember. There was something about a swim in there i was pretty sure and not just treading water. For the record I failed out because I have shitty knees. I technically passed on time:flipoff2:. Not that my fat ass could now probably so.... :laughing:
 
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I had to do the dunk test when I was in the AF back in 1987. 5’10” and 192 lbs. Played every sport I could, hunted and fished all the time. Made my 1.5 mile run in 7:30-7:45 every time. No problem doing the sit-ups/pushups. Still got called fat with a 32-33” waist by admin pukes who were toothpicks but couldn’t make their time. I was about to get an article 15 by my dickhead commander until the wing colonel stepped in and requested the dunk test for me. I didn’t know that was an option, that officer saved my bacon. Good dude.
 
I was discharged from the navy fer being 'out of standards' i could never make the weight being 6"4" it was 220, so the mil did the bmi check. Ive always had a smaller neck and a gut so the deck was stacked against me. 3 strikes and i was out.
The bmi check is complete garbage.
 
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