@QuintusCurtius The draft will not address “how the obesity problem is destroying the population” because many of those who are obese got that way in childhood. “31% of young adults ages 17 to 24 cannot enlist because they're too heavy” (npr.org/sections/healt… | dacowits.defense.gov/Portals/48/Doc…). 
@QuintusCurtius Moreover, more than 10% of the population will not qualify due to lack of intelligence. “Minimum enlistment standards since World War II have generally been higher than the 10th percentile” (www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfreds…, p. 90).
@QuintusCurtius “[T]he military is prohibited by law… from enlisting recruits below… the 10th percentile… because of the extraordinarily high training costs and high rates of failure among such men during the mobilization of forces in World War II” (www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfreds…, p. 90).
@QuintusCurtius @threadreaderapp, unroll please
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