Beards, Body Fat in the Crosshairs as Hegseth Orders Military-Wide Standards Review - eviltoast
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a sweeping, military-wide review of physical fitness and grooming standards with the apparent aim of making the military a stricter and less accommodating environment for troops.
  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    That’s kind of confusing… The military is having trouble getting people to enlist in high numbers so now they want to make it more difficult to pass inspections and add more restrictions to turn people away altogether?

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      It’s either

      1. To cause chaos and weaken the US military to the advantage of Russia and China.
      2. Or they are truly stupid and believe the reason that they’re having a hard time getting people to join all the people with cooties they don’t like. And not just the fact that being in the military generally sucks. And most people would rather do anything else and are only their out of necessity.