Hey MMX !
My beef is not only PT, but nonetheless a weak area today.
High standards also include MOS proficiency and certainly moral standards. Courage will come from the DS.
Well, that's indeed interesting, since I've been wrenching on tracks and generators, and still happen to manage not only 290 PT score (I'm 50 BTW), but also critical task-related skills. These are lame excuses from the 70's when ASVAB scores were manipulated, only later in the 80's to be reversed and the loss of good soldiers in the balance. I actually now appreciate getting educated soldiers back. But, an education won't get you through a battle together. Physical fitness is indeed uniformly essential when I recall what happened to a bunch of logistics personnel in the middle of Iraq. Even if one of them had the intestinal fortitude to fight back (like I had to do as a teen in DC), they would have run outta steam and been shot. Now that my log is gone along with the 175mm rounds I desperately needed and the fuel for my M107, I guess I could just run my Alpha off...being I can
Forgive me for condensing your post, but enough of PT.
There's my point ! I know little about you other than your brief intro in June and your user profile. However, what you've provided above still doesn't give me much to go on.
I don't see the recruiting and retention levels falling. I asked you for a military study (an Army or Marine article will also do just fine) that supports your last post.
Regards, Stan
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