Army fitness standards for fat ‘cyber warriors’ may change as U.S. waistlines grow

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/28/army-fitness-standards-for-fat-cyber-warriors-may-/

By Douglas Ernst
The Washington Times
October 28, 2014

There U.S. Army’s recruitment pool keeps getting bigger — around the 
waistline — a reality that is forcing its top brass to consider relaxing 
fitness standards for future “cyber warriors.”

Maj. Gen. Allen Batschelet, commanding general for the U.S. Army 
Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky., recently spoke of the challenges 
recruiters face in a nation where 70 percent of young people between the 
ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible to serve.

“Today, we need cyber warriors, so we’re starting to recruit for Army 
Cyber,” Gen. Batschelet toldthe Florida Times-Union Oct. 23. “One of the 
things we’re considering is that your [mission] as a cyber warrior is 
different.; Maybe you’re not the Ranger who can do 100 pushups, 100 
sit-ups and run the 2-mile inside of 10 minutes, but you can crack a data 
system of an enemy. But you’re physically fit, you’re a healthy person and 
maintain your professional appearance, but we don’t make you have the same 
physical standards as someone who’s in the Ranger Battalion,” he added.

The officer told the paper that successfully implementing such a decision 
would require the Army to undergo a cultural change that “is kind of a 
different definition of quality.”

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