Re: Fitness

[Roger Burton West <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:54:24PM -0700, Brian McDonald wrote:
>
>  Interesting tidbit i picked up was that a recent green beanie 
>training intake from the civvie to green beret in one easy step program 
>managed to have only 55% of them meet the basic infantry physical 
>fitness test.

The only thing we learn from history...

(Most of the current government-run health programs, including the
British National Health Service, were introduced as a result of similar
levels of unfitness in military recruits during the Second World War and
before.)

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Roger Burton West - roger@firedrake.org - gamer since 1984
http://firedrake.org/roger/rpg/
37. Interchangeable parts aren't.