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Archive Home > 2010 > June > 24 > America's youth may be too fat to fight, report says

America's youth may be too fat to fight, report says

By Lenny Bernstein / The Bulletin
June 24, 2010

Whatever you think of U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is a little unnerving to read a recent report by a panel of top retired military officers on the physical fitness of military recruits.

Titled “Too Fat to Fight,” the April study bluntly concludes that 9 million 17-....

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