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Please log in as a SHRM member. Cancel Sign In. Please purchase a SHRM membership before saving bookmarks. OK Join. An error has occurred. From Email. To Email. Send Cancel Close. Posted on May 21, What types of discharges are possible for being overweight? SPC Join to see. What types of discharges are possible for being overweight and you show improvement 6 months ago and then failed tape again and get discharged and if your not a bad soldier.
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Vote down. SFC Join to see. Here are the types of discharges. Hopefully you can put your situation into the perspective type-discharge. In the past, sailors have been given fitness tests every six months and were discharged if they failed three in a four-year period.
Sailors could be failed even if they passed all the physical tests - push-ups, sit-ups, and running or swimming - but were overweight. The courts have established "that the military can decide its standards, even if it sounds unfair," says Feldman. Yet many of those who were discharged say that ongoing personnel trends and particular assignments have meant that rules are inconsistently applied.
Neither the Pentagon nor the Justice Department immediately returned calls about the case. Bill Torrance, a former Navy sound technician, was discharged in for being 10 pounds overweight. He was 6 feet, 2 inches and pounds at the time. He says that one of the reasons he was probably kicked out is that he was in a retraining program at the time - rather than on a submarine assignment, where he would have been more difficult to replace.
A husband and father of three children, he was unemployed for six months before finding a job with the Wyoming Department of Transportation. Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in. We believe news can and should expand a sense of identity and possibility beyond narrow conventional expectations.
Your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor has expired. You can renew your subscription or continue to use the site without a subscription. The story is that the number of overweight, active duty military members as well as military candidates is so elevated, that it is already a national defense weakness. People often ask about swimming tips. Here is a typical email that truly will require a video to explain the stroke this Here is a common question from a future Army soldier on his path to Rangers about how to reduce cramping while running.
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