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Drumpt got the infantry physical (Original Post) kairos12 Feb 2019 OP
No duck walk? htuttle Feb 2019 #1
OMG the duck walk. Adsos Letter Feb 2019 #2
I just finally looked up the reason that they made us do that htuttle Feb 2019 #4
Interesting. Adsos Letter Feb 2019 #5
One Doc looks in the left ear and one in the right ear. Yonnie3 Feb 2019 #3
and if they could you were a marine... ;) n/t getagrip_already Feb 2019 #7
I didn't include that because ... Yonnie3 Feb 2019 #8
Old story from the Civil War era... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #6
72 Turbineguy Feb 2019 #9

htuttle

(23,738 posts)
4. I just finally looked up the reason that they made us do that
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 08:30 PM
Feb 2019

Apparently, it's to detect "Meniscal Tears", which are problems with your knee joints.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28808951

For some reason, all these years, I thought it had something to do with testing my prostate or gonads or something (probably becuase they conducted it either right before or after "That Test"...).

Who knew?



Adsos Letter

(19,459 posts)
5. Interesting.
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 08:34 PM
Feb 2019

It's been 45 years since I was inducted. Long enough that remembering it is like watching a movie about someone else's life.

Wounded Bear

(58,436 posts)
6. Old story from the Civil War era...
Fri Feb 8, 2019, 08:37 PM
Feb 2019

believe it came from Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac series. Some of the younger voluteers would write the number 17 on a piece of paper and put it in their shoe. That way, when asked if they were "over 17" they could say "yes, sir" without lying.

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