The defense secretary's recent call to reevaluate these standards is long ... validity is often questioned. The Army's primary screening tool, the height and weight tables in AR 600-9, is rooted ...

Physical requirements were sharply lowered ... if they looked able to keep up their weight on Army food. > The Army announced a new rule on physical examinations: if men seem to draft-board ...

The defense secretary’s recent call to reevaluate these standards ... even on the Army’s radar. A growing number of soldiers can be classified as metabolically obese normal weight, meaning ...