Making soldiers fit to fight

Military employs new work-out strategy for flabby recruits

By James Dao / The Bulletin
August 31, 2010

FORT JACKSON, S.C. — Dawn breaks at this, the Army’s largest training post, with the reliable sound of fresh recruits marching to their morning exercise. But these days, something looks different.

That familiar standby, the situp, is gone, or almost gone. Exercises that look....

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