Reply #15: Well, I brought it up because you discussed the military standards in your thesis.

[MADem]

With a smaller force, the way they manage the issue is to have the recruiters take a greater role in getting them down to "fighting weight" before they ship. However, in the current environment, the recruiters have to spend all their time beating the bushes to find bodies for the bus.

I noticed, even at the Pentagon, that very quickly post-Nahn Wun Wun that a lot of gundecking with regard to the whole PT nonsense was going on, and no one really gave a shit--and those guys used to be the most obnoxious when it came to that stuff.