Once these recruits couldn't make the cut. Now they make up a quarter of Army troops.

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2. That sounds like a good program

The pool of eligible recruits is dwindling because too many of enlistment age are overweight. Give them the training to lose weight to enlist in the military and there's a good chance they could continue to meet weight standards.

The one part of the program that I have concern with is the low test scores. There are a lot of jobs in the military that require technical training and test scores are an indicator of whether a person can learn. Back in the 80s, my brother was an Army instructor in radio communications and he told me he'd wash out about half the class because the students couldn't read. It was so bad their training materials was written in comic book form.