Reply #64: I've noticed that. [View All]

[noamnety]

There was a recent picture that made the greatest page - a bunch of badly overweight soldiers in uniform feeding a stray puppy cornpops and strawberry milk. The fact that they were themselves so tubby - while in the military - and that this was clearly their normal diet made me cringe. I held my tongue for that thread because DU was clearly having an "ooooh, look at the puppy" moment. But I remember being put on weight restrictions back when I was 133 pounds, at 5'5". Those guys looked like they had swallowed my former self, I don't understand why the weight limits aren't being enforced ... and if they aren't being enforced through weigh ins maybe the next logical step IS pulling the junk food if that many soldiers aren't responsible enough to have open access to it.

As civilians, it's their own business, but it made me wince to see our soldiers like that.