Meanwhile physically fit men have been entering the country in droves for years. Too many of them are also trained in guerilla combat, at the very least. And/or are sociopathic at best.
When I joined up , I was motivated to join. I wanted to do my part and serve the country I was born in and proud of. I worked my butt off to lose 60lbs to be able to reach the minimum requirements to even go to basic training. I went, I served my time, I got a dd214 and continued on with life. Today I probably wouldn't make the same choice if I had to do it all over again. I don't think the true problem is people being to fat to join , I think the true problem is people are fat because they don't believe in joining anymore. Fat and unfit is not the problem, it's the symptom of a larger problem. I bet Quite a few of you reading and watching this already have a good idea of what those problems might be.
@@Jesuslovesyou-nt8rf Don't join, there is no duty to country, no evil at the door. Our government has nothing but contempt for its citizens and bends over backwards for corporate oligarchs, and oil companies. The leadership is garbage, they will fuck you over at every turn just to help themselves, and once you get out, there is no support. You have to fight harder to get the benefits they promised would be available once you left the service than to get a mortgage. Go to trade school, become a plumber, electrician, welder, brick mason, HVAC technician, or a carpenter. Useful trades that you can do wherever in the world and make six figures doing.
It's the communist unconventional warfare that has convinced (manipulated) even the most right-wing and patriotic Americans to hate America. Yuri Bezmenov warned about this. He was 100% correct. Watch his interviews from the 80's. He never said it would be JUST the leftwing that would fall to a communist insurgency. Society is like a wool sweater. Pull at the right threads in the right way at the right time and the whole sweater falls apart. This is what is happening. It's an unconventional warfare that has been happening for over 70 years.
@@ItsShradinTime It's your country when all the fighting generations are gone. Have fun speaking chinese or whatever may come. Look at porn and anime to your hearts content.
Never been in the military, but I can speak to how physically fit (or unfit) kids today are. I teach auto mechanics. I'm 48 years old. I have 17 year old students who can't even stand on concrete for 2 hours without complaining or having to sit down. When I'm 48 years old, and I can run circles around 17 and 18 year old guys, something is very wrong.
When I was in my late 30s or early 40s I got in the ring with an 18 year old and beat his ass easily boxing. It was not a challenge. We were taking boxing lessons and the instructor would challenge us to fight people bigger or even multiple people. The 18 year old was bigger, looked like a high school athlete, but it turned out he had never been in a fight before.
@@lefinstl- No surprise there. Fighting is largely mental and mindset if you’ve got reasonable physical ability. You were experienced and determined. In any case strength doesn’t really start dropping until men are in their fifties. We just experience earlier deterioration because we work too many hours sitting on our asses.
The real problem is the U.S. military, even with lowering their standards can't fill recruitment quotas because of the awful leadership at the top. Right now I wouldn't recommend any young person to join the military.
My son is going into the 9th grade. He’s a very fit and active young man. I asked him about the presidential fitness test in school. He informed me it was discontinued in 2009 so that fat kids feeling wouldn’t get hurt.
I'm in construction.. we're aging out..kids don't want to work.. Also work for military instructor ..said Young guys are soft..meaning they're breaking bones..not jumping outta planes and getting hurt..running breaking thigh bones..doing push ups and breaking collar bones..comes from sitting around on computer..not getting outside. And mental gotta watch what you say you may hurt their feelings..lol.
Well , we don't want to work especially if we can't get our own home , we can't get our own car. Maybe if you former soldiers or military members actually fulfilled your oath to defend the Constitution and the American people and the American way of life.We won't be in this situation but continue to be pansies And I will say that because it's not like you Are going to do anything about it.
Construction has nothing to do with kids not wanting to work. The reality of blue collar just ain't the same as it was 50 years ago. There used to be upwards mobility, wages used to pay for a home. Now you can have a broken body and be broke or you can just be broke. No wonder they don't want to work, there's no societal honor, and there's no money in it unless you're highly specialized (which means you probably have debt, as intended) or you own the company. Judging off how stupid you have to be to say something like "kids don't want to work" coupled with "you gotta watch what you say" (which I agree with to a degree) makes me think you're just a socially and economically unaware idiot.
I am the perfect example. 200lb straight out of boot camp 30 yrs ago. I let myself get to 355lbs 3 months ago. Down to 309lbs currently as I get ready to be ready to fight when necessary. Goal is 250lbs, good fighting weight. Gotta admit, the shit you talk is what shamed me into action. So Thanks.
If you're 6'10"!!!!!!! You should weight 355 lbs if you're 7' and up. I'm 250 at 6'4" and I've gotta lose. As I'm aging it is less athletic and more pudge. The only answer is lose that weight.
Different build. At 250 I will be at prob 10% bodyfat and require a fair amount of work to maintain. I am very muscular with 20"arms when I am not a fat beast. So 250 at 5'11' is good for me.@@notmyname3883
I enlisted in 78 and served in light infantry and mechanized units until I retired in '08. I rucked 3 days a week until 2 years ago when a disc collapsed and nearly severed my sciatic nerve. At 62, I often have trouble walking. If you're going to do the road work, keep after your core or your back will suffer. My 2 cents worth.
Basic is the minimum requirement, we used to do it in grade school pt class everyday! We did not have one obese kid in school, maybe a couple of “ chubby”kids, but we all did gym class, then hockey or football at lunch and recess, then more after school. Every day! Nobody was on drugs for ADHD or anxiety and that carried through to high school for the most part. Basic, infantry,and advance infantry were relatively a breeze because you just got into better and better shape.
The lack of physical fitness among Americans is troubling but it’s the lack of mental toughness that worries me. Our education system has produced two generations of wimpy youths.
It’s not all of the people on those generations. I don’t have many friends because I don’t like to sit inside and send snapchats to someone sitting next to me. I’d rather be in the woods sleeping next to a fire. Not all of the younger people in America are wimpy and unfit. Some of us are ready.
I served as a millennial. I was a 68W. I got sick and tired of the useless o line training and the constant sui*cide awareness training (had to censor so the RUclips KGB doesn't remove my comment). Not to mention how coddled females are in the military in addition to the fat body officers walking around.
Pro-tip: The ones that are fit enough would not sign up for any reason. Period, end of. If you can't figure out why, well, I don't know what to tell you.
The older I get, the less I feel bad about not "serving" - because ultimately you're not serving your fellow countryman, but rather some banker / politician / suit who would happily send you off to die without thinking twice about it. We all see the theater of "countries" threatening each others' sovereignty but if you go up high enough the people who are pulling the levers of change do not hold allegiance to lines on a map. There are those who have power and those who do not - "serving" the interests of those in a position do as they please with your life is a poor choice. I don't disagree that it's sad to see the people we share this land with becoming more fat, lazy, drug addicted, and apathetic by the day but I would argue that the motivation to get in shape and be physically and mentally fit should come from a desire to look over your own flock and not some arbitrary fitness test that the government has created. That all being said I respect the hell out of every man who has served this country and I am sorry that the reasons you did so have turned out to be less than ideal. TL;DR - Get in shape for your family, not ZOG.
I remember, back when I was homeless, I would watch protestors, sipping on their overpriced lattes, and scrolling through their overpriced macbooks... And I realized, they weren't the team I wanted to be on. Useless, pointless, ineffective, forever poor... I joined the banker's side. I traded in their system, used their equities, got their houses, etc. Any of those protestors who are still even alive (they love their drugs and their depression), are probably all exactly where they were all those years ago, worth nothing, struggling day-to-day. I have gen 4 night vision and a bunch of properties to fight for. I have a vast array of skills, simply because I always am thinking and doing. I'm only allegiant to myself and this country, but I am happy I sided with the bankers. I am in a very good position, should anything catastrophic befall this civilization.
To add to that, I don't know of any vets IRL who are doing well. They were chewed up and spat out by a soulless, abusive system so that BAE and Raytheon shares could be propped up for generals and politicians. So, I'm glad I didn't join the military, either. For all my failures and weaknesses, I have always been good at seeing ahead.
True, it used to be when Americans put their life on the line it was ultimately for the US or its values. Now our troops are increasingly put in harms way for corporate interests or New World Ideology.
The meds most people are taking for anxiety depression etc is my concern. The physical fitness part can be gruelingly grunt instilled accomplished with time. The psychological damage due to society, family collapse, meds scares the crap out of me with the current 18 to 35 group 1 in 3 are taking psychotropic drugs for mental health issues.
I tried to join the Army during the GWOT after graduating highschool in 2005. I was told I couldn't join because I had bone fusions, plates and screws in my feet and legs from a motorcycle accident when I was 17. I went on to do MMA and work on a garbage truck for years after being rejected with no issues, but they didn't even give me a chance to prove myself. Should have tried the Air Force, but I was too proud as a young man.
I enlisted in 69, I was a four sport high school athlete. Basic physical training was ridiculously easy. No one in my basic platoon seemed to have physical issues. Some had motivational problems but the DIs sorted those out quickly. My technical school was difficult if you wanted to score in the top 5%. Not a real problem. Walking everywhere was just how one got around. I never saw a bus for an everyday commute. Once on my first PCS work was mental and physical, long hours in all weather conditions. Lots of drills, inspections, and simulated combat missions. We all knew we were going to war. All my contemporaries were volunteers. No draftees. 12 hours on 7 days a week no real guaranteed sleep. Food was pretty good, except while working, then we ate C-rations. 1969-73 USAF m Crew Chief. Yes we had it much easier than the Grunts, or Mud Marines.
Did my basic and AIT in 1987 at Ft Benning and loved the physical part. I was a skinny little 17 year old when I started and gained over 30 lbs of muscle by the time I left, just before my 18th birthday. I’ve noticed a decline in our kids over the years, but I can’t really give a good reason for it. It is truly scary, and a real threat to national security.
Go to the supermarket. Pick up any bottled, canned or packaged food. There's about a pretty good chance that sugar will be one of the major ingredients. That'll go up to a _real good_ chance if you include high-fructose corn syrup. Why does beef jerky need sugar in it? Why does salad dressing need sugar it it? Ketchup? Steak sauce? Canned beans? You may have to look close and do some interpreting because sometimes they try to hide it behind big or innocuous-sounding words. Go to your favorite search engine and type in "names for sugar in disguise." There will be links to articles that give you a list of the *_60 plus_* sneaky names that manufacturers use to hide the sugar that they're putting into your food, knowing that people are looking for "sugar" and "high-fructose corn syrup" and are buying items without those ingredients. So they use other ingredients that are just as much sugar but have a different name. Also understand that ingredients on food packaging are listed by amount, so if the manufacturers use two or more different _types_ of sugar, each of those types can be listed separately and their individual amounts go down, allowing them to be further down the list of ingredients, misleading you into thinking that there's less sugar in what you're eating than there actually is. We're often told about how lazy younger generations are, they're addicted to video games and their smartphones and they never exercise. Maybe that's true. But kids (and adults) of generations past didn't have to deal with all the sugars that are crammed into foods these days and then hidden from sight by deceptive labeling practices.
Truer words have never been spoken, Randall. (was also a guitar playing metal head when that existed) I grew up in the country, so not being outside was just foreign to me, and still is. You mention going outside today, and kids look at you like you like they've never heard of it. Not my kid. My daughter is 10, and does a 6 day a week one hour PT session. She is ripped, and yes I'm bragging, but to listen to her stories about school mates is crazy to me, and scary, like you said. We need to bring back P.E. in school like back when. Real P.E. graded, and recorded twice a year to monitor progress. That's my two cents. Love the content, gear, and clothing recommendations, and brutal honesty. Subscriber for life! Sua Sponte
I passed basic by the skin of my teeth, physically. I was 23, had asthma most of my childhood, and was always a skinny kid with zero athletic ability. When I got to my first command, I was at my physical peak, and still could only do the bare minimum of push-ups. Sit-ups and running however I could do for days. The fact that I'm 31, haven't done a push-up, sit-up, or a serious run in 3 years and somehow be more fit than people in their teens makes me feel both sick and proud. Sick at how I embarrassed myself the other day failing to do a single pull-up, but proud that attempt was still better than 75% of men between the ages of 18-35. God, we're fucked for WW3
i am currently active duty marine corps and I have the same problem with you, minus the asthma. before the military i didnt do any sports except a little wrestling so I was very weak. On top of that, I have flat feet so I can't run as fast. I am barely a 2nd class PFT now which is way better than when I was in bootcamp but I am still way more fit than most of my civilian friends back home.
Went to Army Basic 1984, 22 years old and worked as a landscaper so I was pretty fit, raced bicycles, had been a backpacker for many years already. We did HUNDREDS of push-up, sit ups, mountain climbers, etc, every day. Before you walked into the barracks the first week it was 10 sit ups, 10 push ups, 2nd week 20, etc. Stopped at 70 each. Don’t forget something and have to go back in 😂. We only had one fat guy and they worked the fat off of him pretty quick. Did that for 4 months, gained 20 pounds. I slowly dropped back down to my natural size and weight. At almost 61 it gets harder and harder to maintain weight and fitness. It sounds like I could outwork many youngsters these days. Good luck to us all.
The issue is the lack of physically fit dudes. Most people can meet the standards after a month or two of physical training. Its mostly because no one wants to join, therefore there is no reason to strive for the physical standard. When I decided I was going to enlist, I looked up the physical standards and I would not of been able to meet them. Then I started training and was able to meet those standards within a few months. Now I am in and I am very much beyond the standard and close to the max
As an old guy that farts dust, I would agree. I am more fit than most people I see around me. I watched a friends grandson a few weeks ago, we went fishing. took that boy (13) a half hour to walk a half mile. he was mad cause i ditched him and wouldn't wait for him to catch up.
@@redactedcanceledcensored6890 the beach idiot. he is 13 the soy is strong with you. wood either way.... I was gone all day in the woods at half that age.
I just turned sixty and celebrated with sixty push ups. I stand alone. In general people would rather die early than do exorcise. They would rather be ruled by purple haired freaks than give up beer. BTW, beer hops are estrogen, and no small amount. Your channel is exceptional. You kick ass. Thank you for the motivation, the time and trouble to put this content together.
It’s absolutely ridiculous how far basic fitness has slipped in America. Spent the last 5 years working to undo the eating habits of my teens and early 20s. I appreciate the honest perspective grunt.
I work with Boy Scouts and a full quarter of the new boys coming into my troop can't do a single push up or sit up in one minute. Not just fit to fight, but fit to be healthy is a real problem.
I'm one of the ones that wasn't even allowed to try. I have a heart problem that was listed on a piece of paper that the recruiter had in his office and so it didn't matter what I was capable of. No hiding it either; I have one of the loudest heart murmurs most doctors have ever heard and a foot-long scar on my chest from surgery. That didn't/doesn't stop me from working out, but that wasn't enough for Uncle Sam.
There is a reason for excluding things...it is not about what you can do at the time of recruiting...it is about the weak link you are in the chain. That said, the fact that you pushed to have a crack speaks volumes about you. Keep working out.
I remember being at the recruiting office where there were some kids returning to retake the mock ASVAB because their previous scores were too low. I also recall being in bootcamp and losing 12 of my fellow recruits almost immediately because the results of their urinalysis from MEPS came back positive for drugs -- and that was back in 1994. I'd wager that it's likely worse now. At my daughter's high school, with a body of less than 500 students, I'd estimate that almost half are either overweight or obese. I grew up in a time where if you were to visit any neighborhood (in the US) where children lived, you'd see them outside riding bikes, climbing trees, playing army, building forts, building dams in a creek, catching crawdads, catching insects, blowing stuff up, or playing a sport. Even after sundown we'd still be out, perhaps catching fireflies, lighting fireworks, or throwing small rocks into the air to watch the bats go after them. Our parents would always have to hunt us down to come back home. We'd return with new holes in the knees of our pants, scrapes on our elbows and knees, and we were dirty and sweaty and likely smelled like wet dogs -- but it was fun. We were healthy and happy. Fast forward to today, neighborhoods with children are devoid of any evidence that they're there -- because they're inside, tethered to their digital devices, either playing video games or brain-rotting social media platforms like TikTok, etc. Yeah, this nation is fucked.
Dude I’m 40. Worst shape of my life. I got off anti depressants and anxiety meds and started trt in January. I’m 6’1 245. I starting off with 3 mile walks daily. Now I’m doing between 3-4.5 miles a day and trying to slow jog too. It’s insane. I used to work 60 hours a week, commute an hour each way, lift weights then jog 2 miles. Maybe I need to quit drinking too. Lol. Small steps I guess.
It's exactly that, baby steps. Take you poison little, by little. We're not young anymore, but there are things we can do at our age to be active and get fit. Can't do pullups anymore due to shoulder injury, but started off with just walking. Now every other day I do 25min strength training and alternate with rucking with a 30lb on my back twice a week (one 2 miler and one 4 miler). Developed planter faucitis cause I wasn't training smart, that's why you have to be mindful of your age, but don't stop. Train smart and get better. Nutrition is also a big part. Stopped drinking sugary juice and rice and grain based foods and started to eat only meat and vegetables and going two months and feeling great!
Try adding a weighted ruck…I am 63 and started at 25 pounds and started doing about 3 miles every other day……great workout and I am in the best shape I’ve been in 25 years
@nedkelly3436 I stopped for 2 months. The only thing I noticed was that my poop seemed more predictable and I had less anxiety. I didn’t miss the booze as much as I thought I Would. I’m debating on taking 6 months off or something. When I drank for the first time after taking time off I was drunk quick and felt terrible the next day. I used to never get hungover.
Great countries always die by some form of decadence, that hinders them from being able to take on their peers. Sloth and Gluttony are two forms of decadence this country is dying by
I was in Panama during 89-90 in the 1/508th INF (AIRBORNE). This unit was no joke, Airborne Infantry training and humping out in the jungles of Panama carrying a case of MREs and 7 quarts of water per man. That can last for 3-4 days for food, water maybe 2 days because you will be drinking and sweating. Going to the field was a parachute jump and jumping with equipment close to 3/4 of your body weight then being out in the jungle for 2 to 3 weeks. You will walk all the time after landing. Unit PT was very tough in my unit being Paratroopers because your body will take a beating when you land so it's necessary to do PT. Later that year my battalion did the Panama Invasion, yep PT did help carrying all your gear, ammo, water, food, and weapons. The fear and adrenaline rush will exhaust you in 72 hours with no or little sleep from pure fear in combat.
The hardest part of serving in a fighting battalion, was sleep deprivation. A typical FTX was 5 days (Mon-Fri), contantly moving, seldom getting more than an occasional cat nap. Our 2-28th Infantry was a mechanized battalion, so we mostly rode in vehicles, seldom marching long distances. But getting our jobs done with little sleep and only C-rations to eat was much more difficult than Basic Combat Training.
Facts! The real "fun" begins when you get to your unit. Even AIT/Tech school can be somewhat more demanding than basic. What makes basic training "difficult" or stressful is that it's a shock to your system and you're dealing with sleep and food deprivation that is out of your control.
Same in the British army. Basic training is simply there to weed out the cripples. The physical for the Metropolitan Police is harder for that of any of the armed services. The fact is, the army wants recruits. They leave it to the regiments, once they get to their regiments, to grind out the real soldiers. It is then that the real drop-out happens. Of course, it is not like the old days. This is a generation that thinks playing 'Call of Duty' standing up is physical fitness.
Former Marine and was stationed in Hawaii, kaneohe! Humping the mountains with a pack, weapons platoon humping your guns. Done a PFT drunk as hell! You are right boot camp was a breeze!
11B 1978-1982. Basic was a breeze. AIT was harder. Both paled in comparison to what we had to deal with in my regular unit in Germany. Daily 5 mile runs. The occasional 2 mile run with gas mask after lunch (two beer limit), you can imagine what that was like and an occasional 25 miler in full kit just for the hell of it. Then there was the field. Wet, cold, snow and force march/run to the objective to shoot and move. All in all, one of the best times of my life. Stayed in “soldier shape” .up into my fifties. Paying for it now after multiple surgeries and arthritis, but wouldn’t change a thing. Keep on keeping on, gentlemen. No one said life was supposed to be easy.
Facts, facts, and more facts. The training never ends, nor should it. I still think the Army needs to do a combination of APFT, ACFT, and an Obstacle Course for a consistent and continual Fitness Test/ Assessment. Good stuff brother!!!
One of the ways they mess with sleep time at Fort Benning was fire alarm drills at 0200. Everyone has to get up out of their racks and get down to the PT pit for formation and do a head count. Only after the all clear is given could we go back into the barracks and get back to sleep. This whole process would take at least 40 minutes.
I joined in 1999, I was 30 years old, father of 3 and I was firefighter, I was out performing 18 year old kids in PT running, bro I know what you mean. Hoooaahh!
What's the point of not letting trainees sleep? I barely got any sleep for about a year and I'm not sure if it taught me anything that could be useful.
My dad was in the U.S. Marines for 23 years from 1945 until 1968 when he retired i was just graduating nursing school at Baylor. I ran track in junior high, high and college. I ran 1 and 2 mile. I remember when i got my commission most we're fit. But notice NCOs probably couldn't pass a fitness test if their lives depended on it. Especially E-6 and above. I did 250 setups 250 pushups and 1,500 flutter kicks every morning before class. I'm 73 and stil run 10 miles a day 200 setups 200 pushups and 1,500 flutter kicks. I still weigh 121 pounds. I use to swim everyday until i retired and came back home to Texas. The only thing I loved about San Diego was the water.
Boot was tied for the easiest physical training alongside my secondary MOS school. The difficulty from Boot to infantry training was like getting out of the 7th-grade and going straight into a Master's program.
Did my basic training in the summer of 81 not used to the south but I was a kid I could have done anything back then and did whenever challenged. Have fun stay safe.
Enlisted in 74. One mile run out of basic. Two mile run out of AIT. Infantry OSUT. Three mile run out of jump school. Thought we’d cut back to two mile runs at the unit. Got a new post commander who wanted everyone to do 4 miles in 32 minutes. This was pre APFT, so we also had the horizontal ladder, run, dodge, and jump, and inverted crawl with the run, sit up’s, and push ups. I gained 30 lbs in five months of training.
Yeah when I went through we didn't actually do that much pt in basic, the vast majority of exercise was from getting smoked for being idiots. But still way easier than expected.
Remember that in the 60s and 70s there was “fat body” training. In all the branches they did this remedial training to prep the guys to get into some shape and they were trained to do their jobs. Many folks forget this now. I was in from 84 to 2011
If more men with your attitude and tenacity had a platform with a wider audience we would have less problems like the ones you speak of. It is too common men with mindsets like yours are shut down and not allowed the reach they deserve. Got my sub
USAF if you can run under 13:36(+1sec used to be a failure, now 1337+ is "high risk") do 39 push ups and 44 sit ups 1min/ea you can pass. They reinstated a bmi test, but that's all there is to it. If you can max pushups/"situps"(seriously look up our sit up) you can run a 15:50 1.5 and pass. Crazy
Hell yeah & well said! If youre a youngman or an older one and are offended or realize that he is talking to you don't hang your head, I don't think this was said to put you down, but rather wake your ass up & challenge yo to do better, & be better. We all need to be striving to get better every day.
Coming from 1st ID here as a Fister, at a mechanized unit there is a lot of fat people in Arti and Inf. Forget the armored guys. However, the fat people do not have a fat time… why? All they care about is getting out and they get that profile to where they can’t do PT and they coast by so… I wouldn’t recommend getting fat in the military because there will be a time where you’ll need not to be fat and you’ll get screamed at and etc but you could pass by I’ve seen it. Unfortunate
Truth. After Basic, (in which we did a grand total of three 5 mile runs) AIT, and jump school, all at Ft. Benning, when i arrived to my first unit my first morning PT was a TWELVE MILE RUN up Kolekole Pass!! That was a rude awakening...
Agree 100% BCT is really easy. But it’s not meant to be that tough. It’s just meant to introduce you to the Army culture and teach you really, really basic stuff. It’s just a bunch of 18-year-old kids who pretty much haven't done anything at all in their lives yet, and seems designed with that in mind. Or at least it used to be that way (1981). The only part of basic that I remember as being challenging were the road marches. Those hurt. Oddly, I now ruck for exercise. From what I've heard, it's even more basic now. My older son joined the Marines back in 2018. At the graduation from SOI, I was talking to the SOI Sergeant-Major about this. He told me how they've had to water things down because kids these days generally don't grow up playing sports, so they're not very good at throwing things. So they need to teach them to throw AND THEN teach them how to throw a grenade.
1984 Ft. Benning. Harmony Church. We were told regulations said we had to get 2 hours sleep per night. But it didn't have to be consecutive, they could just add up 15 minutes at a time, and it still counted. Lol. We had 'fire drills' in the middle of the night where we ran outside with our canteens and sprinkled water on the wooden barracks, then went back inside, refilled the canteens and back to sleep...then back up again, several times. Because the 'fire guard' had fallen asleep. 11-H. (TOW heavy weapons crewman, and yeah, they were heavy).
Its the computer era. Fat kids eating and playing games. It used to be ,go outside and play. Go to your room was punishment, now, the room is where all the computer evil is. You're dealing with a wrecked generation.
When I served in the Army, it was the late 80's. Back then the Drill Instructors were allowed to get in your face and cuss you out left and right. They could put their hands on you at certain times. Sure, it was very physically demanding in Boot Camp/Basic Training. But looking back, It was 50% physical and 50% mental. Because the Drill Instructors wanted you mentally tough as well as physically tough. With so many overweight youths these days, and due to the WOKE culture we live in, so many youths are weak-minded too. So, it's no wonder that the Military is finding it hard to find recruits to join that can pass a physical test. But honestly saying, looking back on Basic Training, it really wasn't that tough at all. Back then, Basic was only 8 weeks long. Those 8 weeks compared to the entire enlistment time at your Duty Station, is nothing. It was a cake walk.
I still serve as a 91B in the National Guard. I’m 45 broken and refuse to go on profile. I pass the ACFT but have several Joes that can’t. It’s lack of pride and individual drive in today’s youth
He's so right about looking back and thinking that basic is easy. If you're in a combat MOS. The training definitely gets harder when you get to your unit. I actually feel like they are doing kids a disservice by making it easy for them now. They get to their unit being under-trained and realize they weren't fully prepared. Then its your job to get them up to speed on the basics. Gheee its almost like we got a special camp that was supposed to take care of that.
In prison, my celly had been an army grunt, he said we did harder workouts in prison than the he did while in service. That’s when I knew we’re f@ck#d as a nation.
In the midst of our shared concerns about the potential for the military to be wielded against its citizenry, we are faced with a profound juxtaposition. On one side, there is trepidation surrounding an armed force that is perceived as ever vigilant, possessing an undeterred spirit. On the opposite end, we observe what some might describe as a less resolute, less disciplined cadre, potentially uncertain of their purpose and direction. When contemplating the daunting specter of our own armed forces being deployed against us, one is prompted to ponder: Would it be more desirable to face a disciplined, unwavering phalanx, or an assembly less resolute in their convictions, perhaps following orders without fully grasping their implications? It is the duty of every citizen to seek personal betterment and fortitude. One need not pledge fealty to sovereigns or deities to attain physical and moral strength. Embrace a wholesome diet, engage in rigorous physical training, nurture a family, and discover one's path to personal valor and virtue within our nation's borders. If our citizenry were to adopt such a collective ethos, the might of the American individual would surpass any formally organized military in the annals of history. For those contemplating service, it is essential to weigh the potential cost, both physically and morally, especially when acting on the orders of transient leadership (You know that if you go die overseas that Joe Biden and his cabinet are sending you right?). Instead, consider a noble path: strengthen oneself to be a beacon of hard work, adherence to the law, and moral rectitude. Become not just a soldier, but a guardian of one's own kin and hearth. For in defending one's immediate community and home, one truly serves the nation
"it's not that hard" mentality is important, when you are in training you just keep doing it because your fellow trainees is also doing it. you are getting stronger without you realizing it if you are keep doing it
My Grandpa drove a tank in the Korean War and continued his calisthenics and weight training until he passed at 87. He told me as a 7 year old…eat right and workout the rest of your life and at 42, I have kept that going.
If they try to draft me back into the Weimerican military, I'm getting a swastika tattooed on the side of my head. "You see sir, I was charged with Statutory something or other.... Don't worry, it's not important. I also got a cool tattoo when I was in jail 🤣"
I left the military, in part, because i was sick of seeing the land whale females being promoted, and i shared a uniform with them. I also couldnt stand seeing SNCO's being exempted from fitness tests, when they should have been leading PT.
I'm going to invest in stocks for drones and robotics for the military. But yeah, after I left ait, went to different schools. I looked back and think of basic as a glorified summer camp with blanks.
The same problem exists in law enforcement. When I graduated from my last academy at 5'10", 185 pounds, and 44 years of age, I benched 285 pounds, then did 100 absolutely PERFECT push-ups, then did about 100 proper sit-ups, then did 18 overhand dead-hang pull-ups with ZERO kipping, then ran a 9:28 1.5 mile. Since then, hiring standards have been lowered, and it is utterly appalling to see the people they're hiring now.
when i went through bootcamp. it was winter so everyone was sick with pneumonia, the flu, and even tuberculosis. even though i was in san diego, it would be 50 degrees on a good day, with lots of wind and rain so we were freezing every day, even in the squad bays. Imagine making that same disease ridden, cold, and tired 18 year old to run a PFT or hike 6 miles with a 60 pound pack. The majority of civilians would struggle.
With all due respect to the Army, I can tell you from experience that Marine Corps boot camp at MCRD Parris Island is no joke. None of the recruits in my Platoon were laughing at the training that we endured. We lost over a dozen recruits who washed out due to injuries or inability to perform to the standards set by our Senior Drill Instructor and our Drill Instructors. One recruit in our Series committed suicide by shooting himself on the rifle range. You are right about it getting tougher after boot camp, it never got easier.
USMC 2000-2011. Lets not forget night ops, night watch, digging fighting holes, still having to get back and run a pft. Boot camp was very much the easy part of life! Why because in combat you still have to do crap when you're tired and the enemy doesn't give a damn if had 8 hrs of sleep or if your feelings are hurt or if you want to be a purple puffer fish for the weekend!
i was always outside as a kid doing everything so when i joined the army in 82 the physical part wasn't impossible since i was already in shape unlike most kids today who get winded getting off the couch to get another Twinkie. when i joined the army to my surprise i found out i love long distance running and was really good at it. once over in Germany on a weekend i decided to go for a run out to my future wife's place just to impress her, it was ten miles out and ten back and it worked. no way most kids could pass basic when i was in since it was a peace time army, they were trying to downsize so standards were very high, the drop out rate when i entered was 50% and most who tried were in pretty good shape but the other half of basic was the mental side as well. sorry but todays standards are easier and you just can't drop your standards low enough for the average kid of today to be able to handle it. oh whoops they tried guys can wear dresses now, good luck with the next drop in standards.
As a 58 year young man with a 6 week post replacement hip I'm more than happy to try and defend my family and country, I'm slowly getting back to it and getting fit once again it will be the fittest and strongest who will fight and survive
This sucks for some. My son is High functioning autistic and he has been disqualified. He wants to go in but it’s not an option. Otherwise he is physically in great shape.
Bro, your trick with the hip belt on the ALICE ruck worked and my back thanks you! 8yrs in the Army and I've been doing it wrong. Glad big Army went back to the old APFT. Now if they can get rid of their woke two mom BS touchy sensitivity training.
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This study was done in 2017, things have gotten worse since then. Now you got myocarditis and COVID injuries.
99.9% "vaccine" related I imagine. "Covid" was pathetic.
Pure truths
“..worse..”?? I feel sure THAT’S an extreme understatement.🇺🇸
Meanwhile physically fit men have been entering the country in droves for years. Too many of them are also trained in guerilla combat, at the very least.
And/or are sociopathic at best.
@@victorsierra9840 covid related stuff can be fixed by doctors now.
When I joined up , I was motivated to join. I wanted to do my part and serve the country I was born in and proud of.
I worked my butt off to lose 60lbs to be able to reach the minimum requirements to even go to basic training.
I went, I served my time, I got a dd214 and continued on with life.
Today I probably wouldn't make the same choice if I had to do it all over again.
I don't think the true problem is people being to fat to join , I think the true problem is people are fat because they don't believe in joining anymore.
Fat and unfit is not the problem, it's the symptom of a larger problem. I bet Quite a few of you reading and watching this already have a good idea of what those problems might be.
@@Jesuslovesyou-nt8rf Don't join, there is no duty to country, no evil at the door. Our government has nothing but contempt for its citizens and bends over backwards for corporate oligarchs, and oil companies. The leadership is garbage, they will fuck you over at every turn just to help themselves, and once you get out, there is no support. You have to fight harder to get the benefits they promised would be available once you left the service than to get a mortgage. Go to trade school, become a plumber, electrician, welder, brick mason, HVAC technician, or a carpenter. Useful trades that you can do wherever in the world and make six figures doing.
It's the communist unconventional warfare that has convinced (manipulated) even the most right-wing and patriotic Americans to hate America.
Yuri Bezmenov warned about this. He was 100% correct. Watch his interviews from the 80's. He never said it would be JUST the leftwing that would fall to a communist insurgency.
Society is like a wool sweater. Pull at the right threads in the right way at the right time and the whole sweater falls apart.
This is what is happening.
It's an unconventional warfare that has been happening for over 70 years.
Our nation has been utterly ruined from the inside out.
@@ItsShradinTime It's your country when all the fighting generations are gone. Have fun speaking chinese or whatever may come. Look at porn and anime to your hearts content.
@@ItsShradinTime I wish I could shake your hand! Thank you for not supporting a corrupt regime!!!!
Never been in the military, but I can speak to how physically fit (or unfit) kids today are. I teach auto mechanics. I'm 48 years old. I have 17 year old students who can't even stand on concrete for 2 hours without complaining or having to sit down. When I'm 48 years old, and I can run circles around 17 and 18 year old guys, something is very wrong.
Hell I'm 67 and much younger people can't keep up with me
And they are weak. They have no muscles. It’s really weird.
@@user-zv3fe4nz8o Wow, so weird, it's almost like when there's no need for intense activity the body adjusts accordingly!! How crazy... Lol.
When I was in my late 30s or early 40s I got in the ring with an 18 year old and beat his ass easily boxing. It was not a challenge. We were taking boxing lessons and the instructor would challenge us to fight people bigger or even multiple people. The 18 year old was bigger, looked like a high school athlete, but it turned out he had never been in a fight before.
@@lefinstl- No surprise there. Fighting is largely mental and mindset if you’ve got reasonable physical ability. You were experienced and determined. In any case strength doesn’t really start dropping until men are in their fifties. We just experience earlier deterioration because we work too many hours sitting on our asses.
The real problem is the U.S. military, even with lowering their standards can't fill recruitment quotas because of the awful leadership at the top. Right now I wouldn't recommend any young person to join the military.
Facts
My son is going into the 9th grade. He’s a very fit and active young man. I asked him about the presidential fitness test in school. He informed me it was discontinued in 2009 so that fat kids feeling wouldn’t get hurt.
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That's simply false. The presidential fitness test was discontinued in 2013.
@@nathanwilliams3877might depend where one is.
That's not the point anyway, the point is it's been DISCONTINUED at all.
I graduated in 2007, never had to do a presidential fitness test.
Have him run cross country and wrestle….cant beat it.
I'm in construction.. we're aging out..kids don't want to work..
Also work for military instructor ..said Young guys are soft..meaning they're breaking bones..not jumping outta planes and getting hurt..running breaking thigh bones..doing push ups and breaking collar bones..comes from sitting around on computer..not getting outside.
And mental gotta watch what you say you may hurt their feelings..lol.
Well , we don't want to work especially if we can't get our own home , we can't get our own car. Maybe if you former soldiers or military members actually fulfilled your oath to defend the Constitution and the American people and the American way of life.We won't be in this situation but continue to be pansies And I will say that because it's not like you Are going to do anything about it.
Construction has nothing to do with kids not wanting to work. The reality of blue collar just ain't the same as it was 50 years ago. There used to be upwards mobility, wages used to pay for a home. Now you can have a broken body and be broke or you can just be broke. No wonder they don't want to work, there's no societal honor, and there's no money in it unless you're highly specialized (which means you probably have debt, as intended) or you own the company. Judging off how stupid you have to be to say something like "kids don't want to work" coupled with "you gotta watch what you say" (which I agree with to a degree) makes me think you're just a socially and economically unaware idiot.
I am the perfect example. 200lb straight out of boot camp 30 yrs ago. I let myself get to 355lbs 3 months ago. Down to 309lbs currently as I get ready to be ready to fight when necessary. Goal is 250lbs, good fighting weight.
Gotta admit, the shit you talk is what shamed me into action. So Thanks.
If you're 6'10"!!!!!!!
You should weight 355 lbs if you're 7' and up.
I'm 250 at 6'4" and I've gotta lose. As I'm aging it is less athletic and more pudge. The only answer is lose that weight.
Different build. At 250 I will be at prob 10% bodyfat and require a fair amount of work to maintain. I am very muscular with 20"arms when I am not a fat beast. So 250 at 5'11' is good for me.@@notmyname3883
I enlisted in 78 and served in light infantry and mechanized units until I retired in '08. I rucked 3 days a week until 2 years ago when a disc collapsed and nearly severed my sciatic nerve. At 62, I often have trouble walking. If you're going to do the road work, keep after your core or your back will suffer. My 2 cents worth.
Yeah getting older sucks. I'm with ya.
Basic is the minimum requirement, we used to do it in grade school pt class everyday! We did not have one obese kid in school, maybe a couple of “ chubby”kids, but we all did gym class, then hockey or football at lunch and recess, then more after school. Every day! Nobody was on drugs for ADHD or anxiety and that carried through to high school for the most part. Basic, infantry,and advance infantry were relatively a breeze because you just got into better and better shape.
The lack of physical fitness among Americans is troubling but it’s the lack of mental toughness that worries me. Our education system has produced two generations of wimpy youths.
years of single mothers and used up boomer fuck boys
It’s not all of the people on those generations. I don’t have many friends because I don’t like to sit inside and send snapchats to someone sitting next to me. I’d rather be in the woods sleeping next to a fire. Not all of the younger people in America are wimpy and unfit. Some of us are ready.
I served as a millennial. I was a 68W. I got sick and tired of the useless o line training and the constant sui*cide awareness training (had to censor so the RUclips KGB doesn't remove my comment). Not to mention how coddled females are in the military in addition to the fat body officers walking around.
Not the education system ,but social media.
The education system is not to blame for kids being wimpy its the wimpy parents
Pro-tip: The ones that are fit enough would not sign up for any reason. Period, end of. If you can't figure out why, well, I don't know what to tell you.
Social contract is broken, simple as.
exactly
The older I get, the less I feel bad about not "serving" - because ultimately you're not serving your fellow countryman, but rather some banker / politician / suit who would happily send you off to die without thinking twice about it. We all see the theater of "countries" threatening each others' sovereignty but if you go up high enough the people who are pulling the levers of change do not hold allegiance to lines on a map. There are those who have power and those who do not - "serving" the interests of those in a position do as they please with your life is a poor choice. I don't disagree that it's sad to see the people we share this land with becoming more fat, lazy, drug addicted, and apathetic by the day but I would argue that the motivation to get in shape and be physically and mentally fit should come from a desire to look over your own flock and not some arbitrary fitness test that the government has created. That all being said I respect the hell out of every man who has served this country and I am sorry that the reasons you did so have turned out to be less than ideal.
TL;DR - Get in shape for your family, not ZOG.
I remember, back when I was homeless, I would watch protestors, sipping on their overpriced lattes, and scrolling through their overpriced macbooks...
And I realized, they weren't the team I wanted to be on. Useless, pointless, ineffective, forever poor...
I joined the banker's side. I traded in their system, used their equities, got their houses, etc.
Any of those protestors who are still even alive (they love their drugs and their depression), are probably all exactly where they were all those years ago, worth nothing, struggling day-to-day. I have gen 4 night vision and a bunch of properties to fight for. I have a vast array of skills, simply because I always am thinking and doing.
I'm only allegiant to myself and this country, but I am happy I sided with the bankers. I am in a very good position, should anything catastrophic befall this civilization.
To add to that, I don't know of any vets IRL who are doing well. They were chewed up and spat out by a soulless, abusive system so that BAE and Raytheon shares could be propped up for generals and politicians.
So, I'm glad I didn't join the military, either. For all my failures and weaknesses, I have always been good at seeing ahead.
Found the nazi
Why would anyone sign up to forcefully enact the policies of the 'people' currently in charge?
Benefits and “camaraderie”
@@autisticANDarmed benefits??????
@@macnasty2740free heath care free college
True, it used to be when Americans put their life on the line it was ultimately for the US or its values. Now our troops are increasingly put in harms way for corporate interests or New World Ideology.
Exactly.. why defend a government that hates you?
The meds most people are taking for anxiety depression etc is my concern. The physical fitness part can be gruelingly grunt instilled accomplished with time. The psychological damage due to society, family collapse, meds scares the crap out of me with the current 18 to 35 group 1 in 3 are taking psychotropic drugs for mental health issues.
Amen
I declined taking them. Doctor recommended I be on antidepressants.
@@autisticANDarmed love your user name! Mr. Wizard would kick bill nyes ass
Stinking sad,and it's due to just plain laziness.Get off your asses america and fight for the good cause.MAGA.God bless.
I tried to join the Army during the GWOT after graduating highschool in 2005. I was told I couldn't join because I had bone fusions, plates and screws in my feet and legs from a motorcycle accident when I was 17. I went on to do MMA and work on a garbage truck for years after being rejected with no issues, but they didn't even give me a chance to prove myself. Should have tried the Air Force, but I was too proud as a young man.
"We 've got work to do". Truer words were Nevers spoken.
Well Done.
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I enlisted in 69, I was a four sport high school athlete. Basic physical training was ridiculously easy. No one in my basic platoon seemed to have physical issues. Some had motivational problems but the DIs sorted those out quickly. My technical school was difficult if you wanted to score in the top 5%. Not a real problem. Walking everywhere was just how one got around. I never saw a bus for an everyday commute. Once on my first PCS work was mental and physical, long hours in all weather conditions. Lots of drills, inspections, and simulated combat missions. We all knew we were going to war. All my contemporaries were volunteers. No draftees. 12 hours on 7 days a week no real guaranteed sleep. Food was pretty good, except while working, then we ate C-rations. 1969-73 USAF m Crew Chief. Yes we had it much easier than the Grunts, or Mud Marines.
The one thing that gets me about our current DoD policies is the woke BS.
Our adversaries sure aren't concerned about it!
There are reasons that God hates that nonsense. It's abomination in His eyes.
Did my basic and AIT in 1987 at Ft Benning and loved the physical part. I was a skinny little 17 year old when I started and gained over 30 lbs of muscle by the time I left, just before my 18th birthday. I’ve noticed a decline in our kids over the years, but I can’t really give a good reason for it. It is truly scary, and a real threat to national security.
Go to the supermarket. Pick up any bottled, canned or packaged food. There's about a pretty good chance that sugar will be one of the major ingredients. That'll go up to a _real good_ chance if you include high-fructose corn syrup. Why does beef jerky need sugar in it? Why does salad dressing need sugar it it? Ketchup? Steak sauce? Canned beans?
You may have to look close and do some interpreting because sometimes they try to hide it behind big or innocuous-sounding words. Go to your favorite search engine and type in "names for sugar in disguise." There will be links to articles that give you a list of the *_60 plus_* sneaky names that manufacturers use to hide the sugar that they're putting into your food, knowing that people are looking for "sugar" and "high-fructose corn syrup" and are buying items without those ingredients. So they use other ingredients that are just as much sugar but have a different name.
Also understand that ingredients on food packaging are listed by amount, so if the manufacturers use two or more different _types_ of sugar, each of those types can be listed separately and their individual amounts go down, allowing them to be further down the list of ingredients, misleading you into thinking that there's less sugar in what you're eating than there actually is.
We're often told about how lazy younger generations are, they're addicted to video games and their smartphones and they never exercise. Maybe that's true. But kids (and adults) of generations past didn't have to deal with all the sugars that are crammed into foods these days and then hidden from sight by deceptive labeling practices.
Truer words have never been spoken, Randall. (was also a guitar playing metal head when that existed) I grew up in the country, so not being outside was just foreign to me, and still is. You mention going outside today, and kids look at you like you like they've never heard of it. Not my kid. My daughter is 10, and does a 6 day a week one hour PT session. She is ripped, and yes I'm bragging, but to listen to her stories about school mates is crazy to me, and scary, like you said. We need to bring back P.E. in school like back when. Real P.E. graded, and recorded twice a year to monitor progress. That's my two cents. Love the content, gear, and clothing recommendations, and brutal honesty. Subscriber for life!
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I passed basic by the skin of my teeth, physically. I was 23, had asthma most of my childhood, and was always a skinny kid with zero athletic ability. When I got to my first command, I was at my physical peak, and still could only do the bare minimum of push-ups. Sit-ups and running however I could do for days. The fact that I'm 31, haven't done a push-up, sit-up, or a serious run in 3 years and somehow be more fit than people in their teens makes me feel both sick and proud. Sick at how I embarrassed myself the other day failing to do a single pull-up, but proud that attempt was still better than 75% of men between the ages of 18-35. God, we're fucked for WW3
Don't worry WWIII will only last 30 minutes. No one wins that one.
i am currently active duty marine corps and I have the same problem with you, minus the asthma. before the military i didnt do any sports except a little wrestling so I was very weak. On top of that, I have flat feet so I can't run as fast. I am barely a 2nd class PFT now which is way better than when I was in bootcamp but I am still way more fit than most of my civilian friends back home.
they are poisoning the youth
Get at it
Womp womp
Singing up for a billionaire's war is a fail..
Went to Army Basic 1984, 22 years old and worked as a landscaper so I was pretty fit, raced bicycles, had been a backpacker for many years already. We did HUNDREDS of push-up, sit ups, mountain climbers, etc, every day. Before you walked into the barracks the first week it was 10 sit ups, 10 push ups, 2nd week 20, etc. Stopped at 70 each. Don’t forget something and have to go back in 😂. We only had one fat guy and they worked the fat off of him pretty quick. Did that for 4 months, gained 20 pounds. I slowly dropped back down to my natural size and weight. At almost 61 it gets harder and harder to maintain weight and fitness. It sounds like I could outwork many youngsters these days. Good luck to us all.
The issue is the lack of physically fit dudes. Most people can meet the standards after a month or two of physical training.
Its mostly because no one wants to join, therefore there is no reason to strive for the physical standard.
When I decided I was going to enlist, I looked up the physical standards and I would not of been able to meet them. Then I started training and was able to meet those standards within a few months. Now I am in and I am very much beyond the standard and close to the max
As an old guy that farts dust, I would agree.
I am more fit than most people I see around me.
I watched a friends grandson a few weeks ago, we went fishing.
took that boy (13) a half hour to walk a half mile. he was mad cause i ditched him and wouldn't wait for him to catch up.
Wait, did you leave a 13 yo kid in the woods that was under your watch?
@@redactedcanceledcensored6890 the beach idiot. he is 13 the soy is strong with you. wood either way.... I was gone all day in the woods at half that age.
@nedkelly3436 yes, it is down the freaking beach. LOL...
That doesn't seem physically possible to be that slow. Was he just lazy?
Hope for the best, expect the worst. I follow that saying every day
If they put a dress on they'll let them right in.
Facts. Just identify as a woman and you only have to high 1 third qualifications
Hahah
The old Reverse-Klinger Trick. Classic.
😂😂😂 You're probably absolutely...at for the 2 to 3 years but, hopefully not after the next admin get in.
Back then the dress was a way out @@hithere4719
I just turned sixty and celebrated with sixty push ups. I stand alone. In general people would rather die early than do exorcise. They would rather be ruled by purple haired freaks than give up beer. BTW, beer hops are estrogen, and no small amount. Your channel is exceptional. You kick ass. Thank you for the motivation, the time and trouble to put this content together.
It’s absolutely ridiculous how far basic fitness has slipped in America. Spent the last 5 years working to undo the eating habits of my teens and early 20s. I appreciate the honest perspective grunt.
I work with Boy Scouts and a full quarter of the new boys coming into my troop can't do a single push up or sit up in one minute. Not just fit to fight, but fit to be healthy is a real problem.
I'm one of the ones that wasn't even allowed to try. I have a heart problem that was listed on a piece of paper that the recruiter had in his office and so it didn't matter what I was capable of. No hiding it either; I have one of the loudest heart murmurs most doctors have ever heard and a foot-long scar on my chest from surgery. That didn't/doesn't stop me from working out, but that wasn't enough for Uncle Sam.
There is a reason for excluding things...it is not about what you can do at the time of recruiting...it is about the weak link you are in the chain. That said, the fact that you pushed to have a crack speaks volumes about you. Keep working out.
I remember being at the recruiting office where there were some kids returning to retake the mock ASVAB because their previous scores were too low. I also recall being in bootcamp and losing 12 of my fellow recruits almost immediately because the results of their urinalysis from MEPS came back positive for drugs -- and that was back in 1994. I'd wager that it's likely worse now.
At my daughter's high school, with a body of less than 500 students, I'd estimate that almost half are either overweight or obese.
I grew up in a time where if you were to visit any neighborhood (in the US) where children lived, you'd see them outside riding bikes, climbing trees, playing army, building forts, building dams in a creek, catching crawdads, catching insects, blowing stuff up, or playing a sport. Even after sundown we'd still be out, perhaps catching fireflies, lighting fireworks, or throwing small rocks into the air to watch the bats go after them. Our parents would always have to hunt us down to come back home. We'd return with new holes in the knees of our pants, scrapes on our elbows and knees, and we were dirty and sweaty and likely smelled like wet dogs -- but it was fun. We were healthy and happy.
Fast forward to today, neighborhoods with children are devoid of any evidence that they're there -- because they're inside, tethered to their digital devices, either playing video games or brain-rotting social media platforms like TikTok, etc.
Yeah, this nation is fucked.
Dude I’m 40. Worst shape of my life. I got off anti depressants and anxiety meds and started trt in January. I’m 6’1 245. I starting off with 3 mile walks daily. Now I’m doing between 3-4.5 miles a day and trying to slow jog too. It’s insane. I used to work 60 hours a week, commute an hour each way, lift weights then jog 2 miles. Maybe I need to quit drinking too. Lol. Small steps I guess.
Keep pushing dude
It's exactly that, baby steps. Take you poison little, by little. We're not young anymore, but there are things we can do at our age to be active and get fit. Can't do pullups anymore due to shoulder injury, but started off with just walking. Now every other day I do 25min strength training and alternate with rucking with a 30lb on my back twice a week (one 2 miler and one 4 miler). Developed planter faucitis cause I wasn't training smart, that's why you have to be mindful of your age, but don't stop. Train smart and get better. Nutrition is also a big part. Stopped drinking sugary juice and rice and grain based foods and started to eat only meat and vegetables and going two months and feeling great!
Try adding a weighted ruck…I am 63 and started at 25 pounds and started doing about 3 miles every other day……great workout and I am in the best shape I’ve been in 25 years
Good deal. Keep pushing, Bro.
@nedkelly3436 I stopped for 2 months. The only thing I noticed was that my poop seemed more predictable and I had less anxiety. I didn’t miss the booze as much as I thought I Would. I’m debating on taking 6 months off or something. When I drank for the first time after taking time off I was drunk quick and felt terrible the next day. I used to never get hungover.
Great countries always die by some form of decadence, that hinders them from being able to take on their peers. Sloth and Gluttony are two forms of decadence this country is dying by
There are young, fit warriors who can fight, theyd rather just fight for their home and not serve other interests.
I was in Panama during 89-90 in the 1/508th INF (AIRBORNE). This unit was no joke, Airborne Infantry training and humping out in the jungles of Panama carrying a case of MREs and 7 quarts of water per man. That can last for 3-4 days for food, water maybe 2 days because you will be drinking and sweating. Going to the field was a parachute jump and jumping with equipment close to 3/4 of your body weight then being out in the jungle for 2 to 3 weeks. You will walk all the time after landing. Unit PT was very tough in my unit being Paratroopers because your body will take a beating when you land so it's necessary to do PT. Later that year my battalion did the Panama Invasion, yep PT did help carrying all your gear, ammo, water, food, and weapons. The fear and adrenaline rush will exhaust you in 72 hours with no or little sleep from pure fear in combat.
Well said, rain hard and train hard. Everybody can't be Airborne.
The hardest part of serving in a fighting battalion, was sleep deprivation. A typical FTX was 5 days (Mon-Fri), contantly moving, seldom getting more than an occasional cat nap. Our 2-28th Infantry was a mechanized battalion, so we mostly rode in vehicles, seldom marching long distances. But getting our jobs done with little sleep and only C-rations to eat was much more difficult than Basic Combat Training.
Only 5 days? I must be old.
@@BeardedChieftain We went to the field for 90 days straight during "Gold Cycle" when I was in the 101ST.
Facts!
The real "fun" begins when you get to your unit. Even AIT/Tech school can be somewhat more demanding than basic. What makes basic training "difficult" or stressful is that it's a shock to your system and you're dealing with sleep and food deprivation that is out of your control.
Same in the British army. Basic training is simply there to weed out the cripples. The physical for the Metropolitan Police is harder for that of any of the armed services. The fact is, the army wants recruits. They leave it to the regiments, once they get to their regiments, to grind out the real soldiers. It is then that the real drop-out happens. Of course, it is not like the old days. This is a generation that thinks playing 'Call of Duty' standing up is physical fitness.
I'm a Gravy Seal. Did a few years on Meal Team 6. I'm going to kick your ass!
Former Marine and was stationed in Hawaii, kaneohe! Humping the mountains with a pack, weapons platoon humping your guns. Done a PFT drunk as hell! You are right boot camp was a breeze!
11B 1978-1982. Basic was a breeze. AIT was harder. Both paled in comparison to what we had to deal with in my regular unit in Germany. Daily 5 mile runs. The occasional 2 mile run with gas mask after lunch (two beer limit), you can imagine what that was like and an occasional 25 miler in full kit just for the hell of it. Then there was the field. Wet, cold, snow and force march/run to the objective to shoot and move. All in all, one of the best times of my life. Stayed in “soldier shape” .up into my fifties. Paying for it now after multiple surgeries and arthritis, but wouldn’t change a thing. Keep on keeping on, gentlemen. No one said life was supposed to be easy.
Facts, facts, and more facts. The training never ends, nor should it. I still think the Army needs to do a combination of APFT, ACFT, and an Obstacle Course for a consistent and continual Fitness Test/ Assessment. Good stuff brother!!!
One of the ways they mess with sleep time at Fort Benning was fire alarm drills at 0200. Everyone has to get up out of their racks and get down to the PT pit for formation and do a head count. Only after the all clear is given could we go back into the barracks and get back to sleep. This whole process would take at least 40 minutes.
We did the same. That sucked
At 60 years old with previously herniated disks, I could pass the Army PT Test and the USMC PFT.
I joined in 1999, I was 30 years old, father of 3 and I was firefighter, I was out performing 18 year old kids in PT running, bro I know what you mean. Hoooaahh!
What's the point of not letting trainees sleep? I barely got any sleep for about a year and I'm not sure if it taught me anything that could be useful.
My dad was in the U.S. Marines for 23 years from 1945 until 1968 when he retired i was just graduating nursing school at Baylor. I ran track in junior high, high and college. I ran 1 and 2 mile. I remember when i got my commission most we're fit. But notice NCOs probably couldn't pass a fitness test if their lives depended on it. Especially E-6 and above. I did 250 setups 250 pushups and 1,500 flutter kicks every morning before class. I'm 73 and stil run 10 miles a day 200 setups 200 pushups and 1,500 flutter kicks. I still weigh 121 pounds. I use to swim everyday until i retired and came back home to Texas. The only thing I loved about San Diego was the water.
Where the is a fat NCo there is a weak officer.
Boot was tied for the easiest physical training alongside my secondary MOS school. The difficulty from Boot to infantry training was like getting out of the 7th-grade and going straight into a Master's program.
Did my basic training in the summer of 81 not used to the south but I was a kid I could have done anything back then and did whenever challenged. Have fun stay safe.
Enlisted in 74. One mile run out of basic. Two mile run out of AIT. Infantry OSUT. Three mile run out of jump school. Thought we’d cut back to two mile runs at the unit. Got a new post commander who wanted everyone to do 4 miles in 32 minutes.
This was pre APFT, so we also had the horizontal ladder, run, dodge, and jump, and inverted crawl with the run, sit up’s, and push ups.
I gained 30 lbs in five months of training.
Im 60 sign me up... serious i still out work most i know its the heart in the dog.... keep moving with good attitude just a whole lot wiser
Yeah when I went through we didn't actually do that much pt in basic, the vast majority of exercise was from getting smoked for being idiots. But still way easier than expected.
Gained 20lbs of muscle in boot camp. Loved the food :)
This guy says a mouth full. He is so accurate in his assessment.
Remember that in the 60s and 70s there was “fat body” training. In all the branches they did this remedial training to prep the guys to get into some shape and they were trained to do their jobs. Many folks forget this now. I was in from 84 to 2011
I’m 35 and 100% guarantee I can absolutely outperform 99% of males in athletic competitions and I don’t even consider myself to be in great shape.
If more men with your attitude and tenacity had a platform with a wider audience we would have less problems like the ones you speak of. It is too common men with mindsets like yours are shut down and not allowed the reach they deserve. Got my sub
I remember when I moved up to TC on my M1A1, I upgraded to a 32oz coffee mug. That was hard-core. Have fun grunts.
I had 4 knee replacements and hole in my heart, so anyone can get in if you want
USAF if you can run under 13:36(+1sec used to be a failure, now 1337+ is "high risk") do 39 push ups and 44 sit ups 1min/ea you can pass.
They reinstated a bmi test, but that's all there is to it.
If you can max pushups/"situps"(seriously look up our sit up) you can run a 15:50 1.5 and pass. Crazy
Hell yeah & well said! If youre a youngman or an older one and are offended or realize that he is talking to you don't hang your head, I don't think this was said to put you down, but rather wake your ass up & challenge yo to do better, & be better. We all need to be striving to get better every day.
Heart breaking to see how many young men cannot even run a mile or do push ups. Easy bootcamp is only making bullet catchers. Not combat ready men.
Thanks for the motivation to stay fit
Coming from 1st ID here as a Fister, at a mechanized unit there is a lot of fat people in Arti and Inf. Forget the armored guys. However, the fat people do not have a fat time… why? All they care about is getting out and they get that profile to where they can’t do PT and they coast by so… I wouldn’t recommend getting fat in the military because there will be a time where you’ll need not to be fat and you’ll get screamed at and etc but you could pass by I’ve seen it. Unfortunate
Truth. After Basic, (in which we did a grand total of three 5 mile runs) AIT, and jump school, all at Ft. Benning, when i arrived to my first unit my first morning PT was a TWELVE MILE RUN up Kolekole Pass!! That was a rude awakening...
Agree 100% BCT is really easy. But it’s not meant to be that tough. It’s just meant to introduce you to the Army culture and teach you really, really basic stuff. It’s just a bunch of 18-year-old kids who pretty much haven't done anything at all in their lives yet, and seems designed with that in mind. Or at least it used to be that way (1981). The only part of basic that I remember as being challenging were the road marches. Those hurt. Oddly, I now ruck for exercise.
From what I've heard, it's even more basic now. My older son joined the Marines back in 2018. At the graduation from SOI, I was talking to the SOI Sergeant-Major about this. He told me how they've had to water things down because kids these days generally don't grow up playing sports, so they're not very good at throwing things. So they need to teach them to throw AND THEN teach them how to throw a grenade.
1984 Ft. Benning. Harmony Church. We were told regulations said we had to get 2 hours sleep per night. But it didn't have to be consecutive, they could just add up 15 minutes at a time, and it still counted. Lol. We had 'fire drills' in the middle of the night where we ran outside with our canteens and sprinkled water on the wooden barracks, then went back inside, refilled the canteens and back to sleep...then back up again, several times. Because the 'fire guard' had fallen asleep. 11-H. (TOW heavy weapons crewman, and yeah, they were heavy).
Its the computer era. Fat kids eating and playing games. It used to be ,go outside and play. Go to your room was punishment, now, the room is where all the computer evil is. You're dealing with a wrecked generation.
When I served in the Army, it was the late 80's. Back then the Drill Instructors were allowed to get in your face and cuss you out left and right. They could put their hands on you at certain times. Sure, it was very physically demanding in Boot Camp/Basic Training. But looking back, It was 50% physical and 50% mental. Because the Drill Instructors wanted you mentally tough as well as physically tough. With so many overweight youths these days, and due to the WOKE culture we live in, so many youths are weak-minded too. So, it's no wonder that the Military is finding it hard to find recruits to join that can pass a physical test. But honestly saying, looking back on Basic Training, it really wasn't that tough at all. Back then, Basic was only 8 weeks long. Those 8 weeks compared to the entire enlistment time at your Duty Station, is nothing. It was a cake walk.
This trend starts way before work culture. No one wants to cook nor parent. That’s the real issue.
I still serve as a 91B in the National Guard. I’m 45 broken and refuse to go on profile. I pass the ACFT but have several Joes that can’t. It’s lack of pride and individual drive in today’s youth
My son will retire from the Army this year after 20 years. He said the military has went so WOKE, he's ready to get out because of it.
He's so right about looking back and thinking that basic is easy. If you're in a combat MOS. The training definitely gets harder when you get to your unit. I actually feel like they are doing kids a disservice by making it easy for them now. They get to their unit being under-trained and realize they weren't fully prepared. Then its your job to get them up to speed on the basics. Gheee its almost like we got a special camp that was supposed to take care of that.
In prison, my celly had been an army grunt, he said we did harder workouts in prison than the he did while in service. That’s when I knew we’re f@ck#d as a nation.
In the midst of our shared concerns about the potential for the military to be wielded against its citizenry, we are faced with a profound juxtaposition. On one side, there is trepidation surrounding an armed force that is perceived as ever vigilant, possessing an undeterred spirit. On the opposite end, we observe what some might describe as a less resolute, less disciplined cadre, potentially uncertain of their purpose and direction.
When contemplating the daunting specter of our own armed forces being deployed against us, one is prompted to ponder: Would it be more desirable to face a disciplined, unwavering phalanx, or an assembly less resolute in their convictions, perhaps following orders without fully grasping their implications?
It is the duty of every citizen to seek personal betterment and fortitude. One need not pledge fealty to sovereigns or deities to attain physical and moral strength. Embrace a wholesome diet, engage in rigorous physical training, nurture a family, and discover one's path to personal valor and virtue within our nation's borders. If our citizenry were to adopt such a collective ethos, the might of the American individual would surpass any formally organized military in the annals of history.
For those contemplating service, it is essential to weigh the potential cost, both physically and morally, especially when acting on the orders of transient leadership (You know that if you go die overseas that Joe Biden and his cabinet are sending you right?). Instead, consider a noble path: strengthen oneself to be a beacon of hard work, adherence to the law, and moral rectitude. Become not just a soldier, but a guardian of one's own kin and hearth. For in defending one's immediate community and home, one truly serves the nation
And yes, i did 20 years.
"it's not that hard" mentality is important, when you are in training you just keep doing it because your fellow trainees is also doing it. you are getting stronger without you realizing it if you are keep doing it
My Grandpa drove a tank in the Korean War and continued his calisthenics and weight training until he passed at 87. He told me as a 7 year old…eat right and workout the rest of your life and at 42, I have kept that going.
THAT is the truth .
If they try to draft me back into the Weimerican military, I'm getting a swastika tattooed on the side of my head.
"You see sir, I was charged with Statutory something or other.... Don't worry, it's not important. I also got a cool tattoo when I was in jail 🤣"
I left the military, in part, because i was sick of seeing the land whale females being promoted, and i shared a uniform with them. I also couldnt stand seeing SNCO's being exempted from fitness tests, when they should have been leading PT.
I'm going to invest in stocks for drones and robotics for the military. But yeah, after I left ait, went to different schools. I looked back and think of basic as a glorified summer camp with blanks.
One of the perks is all the free inoculations
The same problem exists in law enforcement.
When I graduated from my last academy at 5'10", 185 pounds, and 44 years of age, I benched 285 pounds, then did 100 absolutely PERFECT push-ups, then did about 100 proper sit-ups, then did 18 overhand dead-hang pull-ups with ZERO kipping, then ran a 9:28 1.5 mile.
Since then, hiring standards have been lowered, and it is utterly appalling to see the people they're hiring now.
when i went through bootcamp. it was winter so everyone was sick with pneumonia, the flu, and even tuberculosis. even though i was in san diego, it would be 50 degrees on a good day, with lots of wind and rain so we were freezing every day, even in the squad bays. Imagine making that same disease ridden, cold, and tired 18 year old to run a PFT or hike 6 miles with a 60 pound pack. The majority of civilians would struggle.
Preach brother!!
With all due respect to the Army, I can tell you from experience that Marine Corps boot camp at MCRD Parris Island is no joke. None of the recruits in my Platoon were laughing at the training that we endured. We lost over a dozen recruits who washed out due to injuries or inability to perform to the standards set by our Senior Drill Instructor and our Drill Instructors. One recruit in our Series committed suicide by shooting himself on the rifle range. You are right about it getting tougher after boot camp, it never got easier.
👍Boots and utes in those old full leather black combat boots. Good times.
100% correct.
mc’merica is COLLAPSING
USMC 2000-2011. Lets not forget night ops, night watch, digging fighting holes, still having to get back and run a pft. Boot camp was very much the easy part of life!
Why because in combat you still have to do crap when you're tired and the enemy doesn't give a damn if had 8 hrs of sleep or if your feelings are hurt or if you want to be a purple puffer fish for the weekend!
i was always outside as a kid doing everything so when i joined the army in 82 the physical part wasn't impossible since i was already in shape unlike most kids today who get winded getting off the couch to get another Twinkie. when i joined the army to my surprise i found out i love long distance running and was really good at it. once over in Germany on a weekend i decided to go for a run out to my future wife's place just to impress her, it was ten miles out and ten back and it worked. no way most kids could pass basic when i was in since it was a peace time army, they were trying to downsize so standards were very high, the drop out rate when i entered was 50% and most who tried were in pretty good shape but the other half of basic was the mental side as well. sorry but todays standards are easier and you just can't drop your standards low enough for the average kid of today to be able to handle it. oh whoops they tried guys can wear dresses now, good luck with the next drop in standards.
The drill sergeant in basic dogged the crap out of our platoon. That was 1983 though
Well we grew up base ball hockey foot ball .and mountain climing horse riding always out in the bush .great show thanks you tell it like it is man .
It hast too be that tough! We want/need our strongest in the military! This isn't a game!
2024:40 is the new 18. Look around and tell me the most fit age group
As a 58 year young man with a 6 week post replacement hip I'm more than happy to try and defend my family and country, I'm slowly getting back to it and getting fit once again it will be the fittest and strongest who will fight and survive
This sucks for some. My son is High functioning autistic and he has been disqualified. He wants to go in but it’s not an option. Otherwise he is physically in great shape.
i fucked my knees up so bad for a a company building scaffold and I regret it literally daily that i cant squat or run or kneel down in a hurry at 35
I need to work to do, now I know how much I need to travel with my rucksack!
Bro, your trick with the hip belt on the ALICE ruck worked and my back thanks you! 8yrs in the Army and I've been doing it wrong. Glad big Army went back to the old APFT. Now if they can get rid of their woke two mom BS touchy sensitivity training.
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