The Absolute Necessity of Pete Hegseth's Military Reforms

<![CDATA[I remember decades ago when I was in boot camp just outside San Diego. In the Marine Corps, boot camp was three months long. That is, unless you arrived overweight. If you arrived overweight, you weren’t assigned your permanent platoon. You were assigned a special platoon for “fat bodies,” as they were called. This special, temporary platoon focused exclusively on physical conditioning in order to get the recruit down to acceptable weight levels. Only then, once his target weight was attained, did the recruit join a permanent platoon and begin Week One of boot camp.]]>