19FortyFive: the US army is faced with the problem of obesity among recruits

The U.S. military has taken the extraordinary step of running pre-basic training courses to prepare military candidates to weight standards, he said.

This year, the US Army missed 10,000 recruits, writes Beynon.

“The reasons for the shortfall were, for the most part, the widespread obesity among candidates and previous criminal offenses,” the journalist noted.

Dakota Wood, senior fellow at the National Defense Center at the US Heritage Foundation and editor of the annual US Military Power Index, said earlier that arms supplies to Ukraine have reduced the defense capability of the United States, and it will take years to replenish the reserves.