Ep 308: UPDATE - Air Force Lowers Body Mass Index (BMI) Entrance Standards

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Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Pj, Cct, Combat Control, Tacp, Government, Special Warfare, Assessment And Selection, Education, Pararescue, Special Reconnaissance, Tactical Air Control Party, Special Operations, Fitness, Selection, Self-improvement, Air Force, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Team isn't super pumped with the news.

From the Air Force Times:

"The Air Force has loosened its restrictions on body fat for new recruits, one of the latest moves to grow the pool of potential applicants amid the military’s recruiting crisis.

In the past, men and women’s bodies needed to be 20% or 28% fat, respectively, to be eligible for service. Air Force Recruiting Service spokesperson Leslie Brown said Monday that benchmark is now 26% for men and 36% for women."

So why did the Air Force make the decision?! And most importantly, how does the team feel about it? Uh, not good.

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Chapters
00:00 Ambush intros and Cheshire Cats
01:07 Air Force Misses Recruiting Goals and Loosens BMI Standards
21:48 Importance of High Standards and Leadership
26:45 Discussion on Exceptions and Cyber Command
28:09 Story of Scottie Gearing's Survival
28:37 The Importance of Maintaining High Standards
29:35 The Negative Consequences of Lowering Standards
35:20 The Need for Disciplined and Highly Qualified Candidates
40:34Addressing the Issue of Obesity in the Military

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody.
0:08.0	everybody.
0:09.0	I was about to do it. I can't believe it man.
0:11.0	I saw you open your mouth to steal it I knew it was happening.
0:13.9	No I'm sorry I'm admiring your what is that stuffed animal you got there?
0:19.2	I have to check your cat baby. We're all mad here you know I'm just bringing it back a little bit I do
0:23.6	have some career field baubbles I just don't put them out there a whole lot
0:26.1	because I'm embarrassed about my own life anyway.
0:28.6	Speaking of her embarrassing I think we have some admin stuff.
0:32.8	Jared, you're looking a little portly.
0:35.6	Did the Air Force just get rid of all their standards
0:37.5	or what happened there?
0:38.6	Yeah.
0:39.6	Well, I'm portly because I've been feeding my face
0:42.0	because of all the gas lighting going on
0:43.8	not following standards. Oh my God guys so here it is I just put out the story if you're
0:49.1	tracking it here's the thing guys we are we try to be pop like you can tell on this podcast we do a certain number of things right we try to stay out of the curve
0:59.2	fluffle of all the social issues you guys are constantly hitting us up of the d.
1:02.3	How do you guys feel about this? How do you guys feel about this?
1:03.3	How do you guys feel about this?
1:04.7	Of course we feel some type of way.
1:06.0	Go listen to me in Trent's episode about how it is that like that we really feel
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