“Today, at my direction, every member of the joint force, at every rank, is required to take a PT test twice a year, as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a year, every year of service,” he said.

So he's going to use the BMI to tell whether someone is obese or not. BMI is great for statistics, but terrible for assessing individuals. A lot of military guys do bodybuilding and would be assessed as "obese" by the BMI even though they are fitter than most.

For example: I work out, have no visible fat, can run 10k under 50 minutes and still fall right into the "overweight" category because I lift weights. And I don't even consider myself particularly big.

he had them all in to call them fat?

What about the fat president?

I've only seen two headlines so far on lemmy about this speech, and they're both making light of it and only focusing on pretty meaningless details. I know what community this is, so I'm not complaining about this one.

Everyone needs to read the details of what he said though, because it's terrifying.

Fat army guys is like your countries whole thing dude

A lot of talk about professionalism, but nothing about drinking on the job.

This is exactly the type of priority someone who has spent most of his recent life sitting in a makeup artists chair surrounded by a estheticians. - note that might not be a word.

I predict a lot of people are about to purposefully start failing PT if it's actually going to lead to being kicked out like this is implying and not just limiting re-enlistment.

This another step to get the military to only have members that are willing to act on illegal orders for the god king. Same reason they are removing FBI agents for things they did 5 years ago.

Everyone to do PT every day. Well not me. Or the president. but everyone starting just below me.

Wait, serious question, is this why he issued a global recall and threw the US military into a tizzy worldwide? To talk about BMI?

one struggle https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/young-chinese-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-pass-army-fitness-tests-a3617881.html