Cornell study: too fat can’t serve military. U.S. Army Enlistment Standards: Weight-to-Height Body Ratio Sets Millions Ineligible.

A new Cornell Study is finding the Army Recruitment problem may not be due to a lack of patriotism, but a lack of eligibility. While the Pentagon is now forced to accept gays, despite objections from the Democratic President to keep the law (signed by a different Democratic President), many recruits cannot join the Army for a different type of legal “discrimination”: because they weight too much. Many argue, just as they argued having a colleague in the foxhole with you who may want to grab a different “gun” may interfere with the mission and morale (aside from offending the sensitivities of the usually socially conservative armed forces), so too may an overly weighty comrade-in-arms cause adverse effects when serving (aside from being a “bigger” target for the enemy). And women, whom the army is increasingly turning to to meet difficult recruitment goals, are an especially changing demographic: in the past 50 years alone, the number of women who are ineligible due to U.S. Army enlistment standards on their body fat ratio has more than tripled.