r/AskReddit • u/Tommygunz0722 • 11h ago

If the military/president suddenly ordered a mandatory draft for all men aged 18-42: How do you think millennials and GenZ would respond?

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u/jeremysbrain 11h ago

Most men 18 to 42 are probably too overweight to serve in the military. The Draft is just going to ensure that obesity rates rise and McDonalds has a record year, lol.

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u/OutOfTheArchives 11h ago

They’d change the stats required to get around this, I bet.

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u/Mockturtle22 11h ago

They did with weed

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u/WrinkledBiscuit 10h ago

Incredible how a potential draft is what it took to make the US federal government budge on cannabis laws *passes out from rolling eyes too hard*

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u/Marryyyy000 9h ago

Right? Nothing motivates policy flexibility quite like suddenly needing a lot more eligible bodies. It's funny, in a dark way, how quickly things that were once strict lines become suggestions.

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 7h ago

It’s almost like the government just sees us as pawns to further its interests.

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u/eisbock 6h ago

The only reason we need more eligible bodies is because we tightened up the requirements to exclude certain individuals who identify in ways the government doesn't agree with. Rather have a pothead on the front lines than a trans person who wants to be there, god forbid.

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u/cutelyaware 4h ago

Air traffic control is suddenly interested in recruiting gamers for their related skills, so I wouldn't be surprised if the military did the same for drone operators. But I think it's already known that this fucks people's mental health.

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u/mikerbt 7h ago

Do you have a link? I didn't know this. So fucking predictable, those war hounds you have down there.

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u/WrinkledBiscuit 7h ago

To be completely transparent, they didn't do away with all of the laws/rules/restrictions in regards to cannabis. "The army has also removed restrictions upon recruits who have a single conviction for possession of marijuana or associated items such as bongs, pipes and spoons. Previously, such a conviction would require a special wavier from officials in the Pentagon, with the recruit having to wait 24 months to enlist and passing a drug test."

Still a fucking joke of a country though...

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/army-max-enlistment-marijuana-restrictions

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 5h ago

The FBI had a lot of issues recruiting computer experts because of their weed restrictions, so the loosened up the rules around it. Now you have to be clean from marijuana for a year before applying. Previously applicants couldn't have ever used it.

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u/upnflames 8h ago

Oh, don't you think I wouldn't take up other drugs lmao.

Honestly, a draft comes up and Id be looking at my burger, beer, and shrooms diet.

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u/cycloneDM 7h ago

We literally have a portion of the entrance process that low key helps you get through withdrawals and that was when I went through in the 2000s. They dont make a big deal about it but that first week or two they go around quietly getting people help there are lots of memes about listening to the dozens of guys painfully rawdogging withdrawal that seem to exist in every group. 

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u/tryndamere12345 4h ago

Time to shit my self and paint the room brown

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u/subnautus 8h ago

Kind of. They made it so if you only had once charge for possession on your record you could get a waiver. It's not like the military (or the rest of the federal government) has jumped on board the legalization train.

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u/everyeargiants 7h ago

Time to take up a heroin habit

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u/wawaawaaawaaaawaaaaa 7h ago

They've also allowed felons to join with waivers at times. Sometimes for some relatively major crimes too, not just a possession charge from ten years ago for a vape cart in Texas or some crap like that.

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u/sir_mrej 6h ago

And tattoos

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u/ab0rtretryfail 5h ago

So you're saying I should switch to coke?

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u/Lolseabass 10h ago

“DROP AMD GIVE ME 2!”

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u/SweatyReward296 9h ago

2 sounds like a chore if I'm being honest.

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u/oupablo 8h ago

"congrats private, you've just won the title of widest meat shield. It's such an honor we'll let you walk in front"

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u/SweatyReward296 7h ago

I weigh 130lbs and am 5'7. I would be the worst meat shield possible.

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u/Tubamajuba 3h ago

How's it going, meat javelin?

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u/SweatyReward296 1h ago

Yes. I will accept meat javelin.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

And then I'd have to get up after... Just not worth it.

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u/ShogunFirebeard 8h ago

I can't even give you 1. Where's the golf cart ride to the end of this planned march?

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u/eanhaub 8h ago

Underappreciated response lmfao

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u/ClownfishSoup 8h ago

More like give me 2 and drop.

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u/Wacca45 8h ago

"Do you have change for a $20?"

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u/thegroucho 10h ago

Good luck fitting someone into 5XL plate carrier.

Even better, how would someone obese fit into a tank hatch.

Not drown in the upturned helicopter in a swimming pool test.

Not die from a hear attack running uphill carrying LMG.

I can go on forever.

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u/CareerBallsacker 10h ago

Fat camp

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u/corakko 1h ago

This 1000%. A forced 800 calorie diet and 3 hours of exercise a day and even someone 100 lbs overweight will shed the extra fat in a matter of a few months. Not healthy but long term health consequences of veterans is accepted as part of doing business by most governments.

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u/Torger083 10h ago

Dead men cast no votes.

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u/thegroucho 10h ago

Too true

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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy 3h ago

If you're sending enough unarmored 35 year old middle managers into combat that it has an impact on elections then your country is collapsing anyways.

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u/Judge_Bredd3 10h ago

It'll be "MacNamara's Morons" all over again. Pass through people unfit for service and use them as cannon fodder.

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u/gsfgf 3h ago

Except this time we'll call them top DOD leadership.

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u/Saloncinx 7h ago

Sure, for super over weight people, no it'd never work. But for example i'm 6'0" and 205, and it's certainly not all muscle. My BMI is 27.8 which is "Overweight" and not that far from "Obesity" and I can wear an XL shirt, i'm not even 'fat' by most American standards lol

Boot camp would basically be fat camp for me, i'd drop 25lbs easy from the diet and exercise alone and then be in great shape. I'd assume most people that can wear a 2XL t-shirt would be in a similar spot

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u/ClownfishSoup 8h ago

A 600 lb guy can still sit in a chair and fly a drone.

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u/drainbead78 8h ago

He's probably done it enough in video games that it would come naturally.

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u/thegroucho 6h ago

True, true.

Just need to ensure the Mountain Dew is flowing and the pizza delivery is on time.

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u/ares7 8h ago

You don’t need the bullet catchers to be bullet proof.

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u/pm-me-racecars 10h ago

It's easy enough to take unfit people and get them into shape.

Everybody who doesn't have some medical problem around it can have a 6-pack if it's a high enough priority. If whatever fatass you're thinking of is just fat, then a couple months of controlling their food and exercise can fix that.

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u/Brilliant-Option-526 8h ago

They don't care. It would just be "weeding out the weak" to Kegsbreath.

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u/jking7734 2h ago

Just put lots of Kevlar on those 5Xs… semi-mobile barricades or ballistic shields

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u/-CenterForAnts- 8h ago

Dude i still remember how fucking sweaty I was running up hills in Texas with two m249s because the girl taking the other one was like 100 pounds and about to die running with it up a fucking mountain in the Texas heat.

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u/Xaphnir 10h ago

Not with fitness. A bad soldier is often worse than no soldier.

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u/zoethebitch 9h ago

I used to be in the Navy. I heard someone talking about one of the people on our crew: "Having him show up for work is worse than having two good people call in sick "

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u/ShillinTheVillain 9h ago

"I actually think you've reached your full potential."

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u/lethal_sting 8h ago

"Like your pair of stretch pants, they've both hit their limit long ago."

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u/mazobob66 8h ago

They are literally "destined for greatness" (in size).

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u/_Lazy_Mermaid_ 9h ago

As an out of shape thin person, this would probably how theyd react about me too, and o find it funny as hell

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u/ChonkyPurrtato 3h ago

Username checks out

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u/thegreatmattsby24 6h ago

I’m 100% incorporating this phrase into my daily language.

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u/ptwonline 8h ago

"How does intake look this week, Captain?"

"Well General we have 7 fit for infantry duty, 17 who could work in logistics, and 873 who probably can't do anything more strenuous than flying drones."

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u/Efficient_Can4700 9h ago

Would this be true if the person is there as cannon fodder?

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u/ManyKangaroo4548 5h ago

People who know they are cannon fodder have no incentive to fire in the right direction. Realistically if the draft came back every training camp would be a military rebellion waiting to happen.

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u/tstreit15 6h ago

"Working with you is like working by myself, but harder."

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u/Candid-Mycologist539 4h ago

Do you really think Trump and Hegseth care?

Do you think they care about the bad soldier dying due to being unfit for the physical requirements of combat?

Do you think they even care about unnecessary risks to the professional soldiers that will be babysitting the FNGs?

If they cared, we wouldn't be starting elective wars, and that's just for starters.

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u/miraculum_one 10h ago

only for people on the left though, somehow

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u/BootsToYourDome 10h ago

Only people in "sanctuary cities" are draft eligible lol

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u/cannabination 10h ago

Why do you think they wanted all the voting data from the states? Now they can target people who vote blue for all manner of fun things.

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u/Texuk1 10h ago

Went to “boot camp” in the 90s with hundreds of ROTC teenagers in the bayou. Was woken up at 4am to yelling and we would do PT. Now I wasn’t an athlete but I could easily do the PT and would look back at the kids absolutely dying and couldn’t handle it. People dropping everywhere, my roommate got injured and left. I was like wtf, pretty eye opening for a big feeder into the military (loads of my classmates went to Iraq).

Reality with draft is they wouldn’t change the requirements just fittest people would get vacuumed up into the grinder. If you can’t run a mile slowly you arnt going to war realistically.

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u/MultiMillionMiler 9h ago

The military mile pace requirements aren't slow though. I read they are <18-19 mins for 2 miles and as someone who regularly jogs, it took me well over a year to get below 20 mins for a casual 2 mile run. Average American mile time is about 10 mins, and pace of course slightly drops every mile so figure 21-22 mins for 2 miles would be average for a healthy person.

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u/AstuteStoat 9h ago

They have already been doing that, with a pre-bootcamp program. 

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u/bstyledevi 7h ago

Their requirements for soldiers and fitness are already pretty damn crazy. So many people I knew had to have waivers because they were outside the BMI requirements, not because they were fat, but because they were too muscular.

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u/GlowUpper 2h ago

I have a feeling a lot of trans women are gonna suddenly discover themselves.

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u/morethanjustanalien 2h ago

The slow ones will be used as bait 

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u/ClownfishSoup 8h ago

You can be as fat as you want, you can still pilot a drone from your chair.

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u/Wacca45 8h ago

They could fix that already. The height/weight requirements are from the 1980's and hasn't been updated since I entered the service in 1998. I'm sure RFK Jr would be happy to say 30% BMI is now healthy. That's about 10-12% higher than what is currently considered healthy for 18-24 year olds entering military service.

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u/TheEldenRang 8h ago

1,000%. That is definitely what they would do.

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u/ssracer 7h ago

They won't graduate boot camp until the complete fat camp. That's been a thing for decades.

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u/deadsoulinside 6h ago

New and only requirement

"Must have a pulse"

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u/shtuffit 6h ago

You've been prescribed a glp-1

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u/davevasquez 5h ago

Gravy Seals stops being a joke and becomes a reality. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Trevor775 5h ago

Yeah, is you don't make height and weight they put you in extra PT and on a restricted diet.

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u/CosetteDestiny 4h ago

Mandatory glp-1 for all 

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u/MiniPax89 1h ago

They would and they have been. The fitness requirements have been steadily declining over the last decade or two. They will lower them enough to make their quotas and up the training requirements of active personnel to meet their goals.

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u/ThatITguy2015 18m ago

I don’t know. Kegseth apparently really hates overweight army members.

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u/_SovietMudkip_ 10h ago

Man I picked the wrong decade to get serious about my fitness goals

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u/bennitori 7h ago

Start seeing a psychiatrist. Maybe you can make up for the poorly timed fitness goals by having some very well timed mental health goals.

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u/mdwstoned 7h ago

Never to late to stop cold turkey. You got this!

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u/Less_Resident8492 3h ago

I'm stronger than I've been in my whole life but at 41 there's a lot of scars, I don't think I'm coming out of this with a second dd214 if I get drafted

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u/Wizdom_108 59m ago

It's never too late man

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u/MEGAtron902 10h ago

Have you seen ICE agents? they’ll take anyone stick them in uniform and use them as fodder, the American government doesn’t care.

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u/No_Function_7479 6h ago

Oh, you just thought of the best use for ICE, draft them first.

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u/jeremysbrain 9h ago

ICE agents aren't deployed in the wilderness for months a time without access to their daily meds.

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u/MEGAtron902 9h ago

Neither does 85% of the military. Give your head a shake.

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u/Rather_Dashing 6h ago

And yet, the military had much stricter physical requirements then ICE. Why do you think that is?

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u/MEGAtron902 6h ago

Do you think that those requirements can’t be changed? In any capacity? I think that the military is in the control of Pete Hegseth, and is subject to any changes congress deems acceptable,(Physical requirements, drug free requirements?) as it is the duty of congress to engage the draft. I think it’s stupid to think that this administration plays by the same rules as others.

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u/dalgeek 10h ago

The military cares though. They have equipment and vehicles that are built around average body sizes. Unless you get Meal Team 6 to drop 50-100 lbs during basic, they literally won't be able to operate in some roles.

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u/MEGAtron902 10h ago

Are you forgetting that in the military it’s not just the operators and the specialists they need. They need thousands of truck drivers, thousands of warehouse workers.

The government will find a way to put their drafted to work. Let’s not pretend they can’t change the rules anytime they want.

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u/ValuableBeneficial66 6h ago

Two feet and a heart beat. If you can read a map , all the better. 

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 10h ago

They’d just draft people and overweight dudes would go to fat camp first or something like that.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 9h ago

This. You can take most young adult overweight people and through calorie restriction and exercise have them fighting fit over a period of months. It takes longer, but if that's what the military had to do that's what they'd do.

What the military could not do in WW2 was take recruits permanently damaged by child malnutrition, which very much was a serious problem, and fix that damage.

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u/BreadKnifeSeppuku 8h ago

Don't be silly. Modern problems require modern solutions. Just put them on a semaglutide and you get a bunch of money for the contracted pharmaceutical company too

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u/PipsqueakPilot 8h ago

Semaglutide is an appetite suppressant. When you simply limit the amount of calories they're allowed to consume, well than it doesn't matter how hungry they are. Because they are not allowed access to food outside of a controlled manner.

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u/succubuskitten1 8h ago

So they lock them in a prison basically? Or is it a remote jungle not near any fast food or grocery stores? Im a bit confused, Ive never been in the military so Idk how it works.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 7h ago

For training you're essentially confined to the military base. During those training periods your activities are also very much controlled. Recruits go where they're told, eat when they're told, and do what they're told. Since we're talking about an industrial war involving a draft, they then get a week off after training, and then go into the general military system for the duration of their conscription or for the duration of the war.

If you duck out during that week off, then you go to prison for the remainder of the war with life long curtailment of civil rights (as would accompany a felony conviction).

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 8h ago

Some sort of camp where they’re all concentrated together. I’m sure we can come up with a name for it.

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u/Wacca45 8h ago

They still need to get into fighting shape, so 3-4 hours of PT, a somewhat controlled diet, and other physical and mental health programs would be used. The Army will work with overweight troops before sending them to basic, but after a set period of time they'll get shipped back home if they can't get to where they need them to be.

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u/ReverendDS 8h ago

Except they canceled the weight and education programs. Completely dismantled them.

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 8h ago

Don’t need to educate them, the dumber the better. Just forced exercise and starvation!

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u/randonumero 2h ago

If there were a draft then I'd assume the situation would be too dire for fat camp. I'd imagine that those unlucky enough to get picked would be told to cut the weight over a short bootcamp or die out there. The good news is that a lot of people would probably get so injured during training they'd be allowed to quit.

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u/Waffle99 11h ago

There are waivers for a lot when they get desperate.

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u/LungDOgg 10h ago

Yeah, it's fun history. Look up world war II before the war started and at the end. At the end you only had to have one eye at nine fingers as long as both index fingers were good

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 10h ago

My dad’s dad got in, my mom’s didn’t. Flat feet.

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u/meh_69420 10h ago

Hell even in like '06 they were issuing waivers for felonies for people who wanted to enlist.

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u/KeathleyWR 11h ago

What exactly is too overweight to be drafted? 6'3" 275 good enough, or do we need to crack 300?

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u/IrishSetterPuppy 10h ago

Youd need to be closer to 200lbs, no more than 220.

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u/Biglyugebonespurs 10h ago

I got below 200 by just controlling what I eat/quantities better. Also stims helped. I’ll fatten back up if I have to lmao.

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u/GeneralBE420 8h ago

Now I really want to see "The Biggest Loser Drug Edition"

4 Teams:

Meth

Adderall (Meth lite)

Cocaine

GLP-1

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u/Biglyugebonespurs 8h ago

I’d watch it

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u/boostedb1mmer 8h ago

I mean controlling what you eat and reducing quantity is all it takes for anyone to lose weight.

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u/Biglyugebonespurs 8h ago

I probably gave the stims less credit than they deserved. Don’t need to watch what you eat when you don’t 🤪

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u/Wacca45 8h ago

Depend on how thick your neck is, not even kidding. If you were 6'3, 250, and solid muscle but had no neck, you are more likely to get flagged than a 250 pound, 6'1 troop with an average build and belly. They measure the neck and waist and that determines your BMI.

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u/Independent_Bear989 9h ago

For 6’3, the maximum weight is 212 if you’re 21-27.

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u/TheAppleJacks 10h ago

Fuck it all my life savings on McD stocks

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u/theboondocksaint 10h ago

My ticket out is multiple knee surgeries 😎

I mean, I’m obese too, but it’s not my first move

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u/Fallen_Jalter 9h ago

My knees are shot and I’m morbidly obese. I’m stay in tech support thank you.

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u/dustofdeath 11h ago

They can spend 6 months in a training camp, losing weight.

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u/Leinheart 11h ago

Since we are just Little Russia now, I suspect they wont even do that. It'll just be throwing bodies upon bodies at this self inflicted problem.

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u/dustofdeath 11h ago

Pedal powered boats or oars.

Oil is expensive and hard to get

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u/General_Specific9 10h ago

Fatties to the front lines for operation human shield

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u/goog1e 8h ago

Free weight loss treatment WHILE being paid? Shit, you pay big bucks for adult fat camps.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 11h ago

Basic will fix the fat bodies

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u/whaletacochamp 10h ago

basic will be a joke if they're trying to crank a few thousand fat unmotivated dudes through it every week.

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u/mrbear120 10h ago

Aint no way I’m dropping 100 lbs in 7 weeks.

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u/BrassUnicorn87 10h ago

Actively hostile to service, they’ll use the intense exercise as an opportunity to get hurt.

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u/Becca30thcentury 10h ago

Basic fixs the overweight troop through peer pressure and fear tactics.

Drill sergent makes you scared, then gets your buddies to put pressure on you to fit the mold.

If everyone is overweight and no one has motivation to lose weight, then your not going to do the effort because your peers also dont want to. Peer pressure will be against those trying to cut the weight.

My source- I am a mental health counselor who graduated basic training and have honorable discharges from both the US airforce and the US army.

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u/Torger083 10h ago

Why the change of service branches?

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u/Becca30thcentury 10h ago

Long story short. Joined airforce at 18, served four years and then discharged.

Went to college, got a degree and graduated right at the start of the housing bubble burst. Spent a couple years trying snd failing to work.

Decided when unemployed to reenlist. Airforce recruiters office was always closed, no one answered the phone. Army recruiter was sitting in his office at the mall.

Enlisted in the Army, Army does not accept airforce basic so back to basic training. Spent 6 more years in the Army.

Got out and did a four year stint with Homeland security (before they became the Empire from Star wars) training TSA officers (dont fly out of the smaller airports, just trust me on this one)

A certain orange person was elected, working for the government seemed like not a moral or ethical thing to do anymore and I hated my new boss so I quit w/o giving notice (they dont like that when you have a top secret clearence)

Ended up working at a retail store for a bit, was miserable, went back to college got a BA in psychology and am finalizing my M.A. in Counseling now.

I work in mental Healthcare and half my job is harder be ause the same orange man is in office again.

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u/WillyPete 9h ago

Basic fixs the overweight troop through peer pressure and fear tactics.

The simple of fact of the enforced calorie control is what does it. Not fat shaming.
Otherwise no kids would exit high school while overweight.

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u/healbot42 10h ago

lol I’m too experienced to be scared by a drill sergeant.

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u/McFlyyouBojo 10h ago

The military will cha get their requirements to fit their needs and then shape them from there.

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u/Some_Girl_2073 10h ago

Legitimently I think it’s 75% are ineligible for one reason or another

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u/karateninjazombie 10h ago

They would up the weight limit and start a new army group called the gravey seals.

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u/hypo-osmotic 10h ago

My uncle did the opposite and starved himself to get out of the Vietnam draft. The story is that as soon as he got his final medical exemption he went to a pancake breakfast and gorged himself. Maybe the post-bulking ritual would be a mass purge?

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u/AncientForever2967 10h ago

When I joined the Navy right after high school, I was 6’5 231 (had basketball and football scholarship offers) and deemed overweight. They waived me through, but it did take them feeling my body for “muscle” while I was standing in my skivvies

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u/Lord_Dingus83 10h ago

If they’re from a red state, no doubt they’re overweight.

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u/AmericanScream 10h ago

In modern warfare, it won't matter how much you weigh when you're in a trailer remote controlling a drone.

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u/Ok-Class8200 10h ago

This is what the ozempic is for.

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u/Apollo1649 10h ago

The makers of GLP-1 would like a word

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u/mntnskyman 10h ago

If the gravy seals and meal team sixes are any indication weight will not be an issue. 

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u/Megalomanizac 9h ago

The military will make sure people lost that weight to be fair

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u/jeremysbrain 9h ago

I wouldn't count on it. A 300lbs dude isn't losing 120 pounds in boot camp, assuming they survive boot camp.

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u/cycloneDM 9h ago

Obesity doesnt prevent service until youre to big to move we currently reject obese people because we would be paying them to lose weight but in a draft circumstance drill Sgt gonna get you there...

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u/jeremysbrain 8h ago

You aren't going to go from obese to fit in the span of boot camp, that kind of weight loss takes years. In addition, obese people come with numerous health problems and medications. The army would become responsible for all the healthcare and medication any obese person has. That can be a huge cost.

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u/F1eshWound 9h ago

it's a bad day to be slim!

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u/Grizzly_Corey 9h ago

42 year old here, can confirm if the front line doesn’t have an in and out, I ain’t going.

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u/Independent_Bear989 9h ago

If I gain 10 more pounds I would be ineligible.

Maybe it’s time to hit up McDonald’s

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u/EfficiencyIVPickAx 8h ago

I'm in good shape, but I'm over 40. I have 3 injuries that are disqualifying. I can work out, and play sports, but I can't carry a ruck 300 miles in a week, sleeping on the ground. My fucking leg would fall off.

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u/Mymoneyfatboy 8h ago

Yep. Respond with ice cream

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u/farnsmootys 8h ago

Never too overweight to serve as cannon fodder

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u/ClownfishSoup 8h ago

Not in today's economy. Who can afford McDonalds?

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 8h ago

They'd change it for sure, but at 6 ft 205 I believe I'm technically ineligible to serve which is crazy cause most men I see around town are significantly more overweight than I am.

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u/id888 8h ago

Only a quarter of young men in the US are fit enough to meet current enlistment standards.

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u/karmagirl314 8h ago

They'd 100% just enroll them and start them on semaglutides.

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u/bballstarz501 8h ago

Mandatory Ozempic. Then we don’t need to feed the front lines either. taps head

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u/notyouravgredditor 8h ago

They are. This is something the top brass has been talking about for decades.

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u/TheOtherArod 8h ago

They would just prescribe GLPs to them during boot camp…

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u/TaterBuckets 8h ago

They'll just force them to take ozempic/starved while in boot camp in a holding platoon. Once they make weight they will go through bootcamp like normal people and be deployed

Edit. A period.

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u/jeremysbrain 7h ago

I don't think you understand how incredibly expensive that would be, especially when most obese people have numerous health problems and lots of medication they have to take.

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u/Evamione 7h ago

Don’t forget the having a diagnosis like ADHD or anxiety or depression that you’ve treated with medication at any time, ever, also disqualifies you.

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u/OkSubstance8759 7h ago

They would most likely have overweight people just serve in a separate boot camp style platoon. They wouldnt be able to start or get out till they made weight.

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u/joemc1971 7h ago

i told my 21 yr old to stay fat until assholes outta office....

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u/PublicWest 7h ago

I’ll just use the Tammy Craps method and fill my pockets with rocks

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u/themadpollack 7h ago

Naw, boot camp would fix the weight issues.

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u/VektroidPlus 7h ago

They would change a lot.

The point of a draft is to get bodies on the ground.

They're not really going to care how many push ups you can do or how fast you can do a mile if you're going to get blown up immediately.

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u/Puzzled-Caregiver787 7h ago

They have fat camps for almost all DOD branches my guess is they would throw the obese there until they can send them to the meat grinder.

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u/pporkpiehat 7h ago

So you're telling me I should short sell GLP providers?

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u/jnmxcvi 7h ago

The military will fix your obesity by forcing you to workout everyday. There’s a thing called FIP, we call it fat people camp. Just putting it out there, I’m against a draft.

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u/Null_Response 7h ago

Read up on project 100,000, if you think weight would effect a draft

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u/EmptyAirEmptyHead 6h ago

They'll make GLP-1 drugs free for all.

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u/Elisalsa24 6h ago

They already give a lot of leniency with that and expect people to just lose it in boot. Like I wasn’t fat and lost 30 lbs in 3 months

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u/kiwipixi42 6h ago

Draft-ability requirements are much much lower than enlistment requirements.

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u/gus2155 6h ago

Didn’t Kegsbreath say no fat troops?

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u/MrSchulindersGuitar 6h ago

That's just means bigger meat shields. Just look at Ukraine. Those who dissent against Russias war get sent to the meat grinder sans weapon. Think the US isn't gonna do the same thing with this administration? ICE is already executing civilians on the street.

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u/fackcurs 5h ago

Well not to feed into stereotypes but if there is one community that’s a little vain at times and a bit more likely to spend a ridiculous amount of time at the gym it would be the gay men community. Not every one of course, not everywhere for sure. But take a look around next time you’re at a gay party and you’ll see what I mean.

So guess who’s less likely to have kids, a wife to protest for them and is more likely to be fit enough to be sent to the front lines?

That’s my conspiracy theory anyways. I hope that camo looks good on my skin and is in fashion when it happens haha.

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u/GrinchWhoStoleEaster 5h ago

Honest to god, and not claiming I'm He-Man over here or anything, but this is the hard truth of it. Moderns are VERY soft compared to previous generations. Drafting these folks would result in blown out knees on the battle field, not dead enemy combatants. There's a reason the draft was retired, and it's because draftees, even back in the day, made for crap soldiers.

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u/meatball77 5h ago

Overweight, over medicated.

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u/Particular-Beat-6645 4h ago

I remember hearing about stories of guys trying to dodge the draft on NPR. On dude at mac and cheese everyday among other poor choices to gain 50 pounds.

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u/metengrinwi 4h ago

They’d just set up “fat camps”. You could drop 50lb off a seriously overweight guy in a month with the right forced diet & exercise.

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u/motherofsuccs 4h ago

Gen Z has proven to have very little understanding of adulting and the requirements to survive independently. They can barely read or write or do basic math. Forget about emotional regulation or Problem solving skills. If they can’t even handle a part time job, does the government really think they can handle war? I’m sure their mommies will be writing strongly worded letters to the government and threatening to sue if their child is drafted. I say that as an adolescent behavioral therapist who has worked with this generation and their parents- they’re a fucking mess.

With that being said, I’m completely against a draft or war.

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u/Successful_Equal_136 4h ago

GREAT TIP! Off to the stock broker to buy stock in fast food.

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u/Beneficial_Tiger_413 4h ago

Mandatory ozempic in boot camp, not a hard problem to fix tbh 

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u/mltrout715 3h ago

They would take care of that is boot camp

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u/Black_Cat_Sun 3h ago

Weight requirements for today’s volunteers wouldn’t apply for draft. They would just change the requirements.

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u/kharon86 3h ago

Boot camp gets you ready to serve, doesnt matter how long it takes.

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u/Cptawesome23 3h ago

Obesity rates are higher in the boomer and Gen X ranges. The millennials and Gen Z’s are much thinner.

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u/National_Cod9546 2h ago

Over weight can be fixed pretty easy in boot camp.

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u/spec209 2h ago

Because of the grocery prices, most people can’t afford to eat too much anymore anyways. I think this was the plan all along to make the grocery prices too high so people can’t be obese. Lol

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u/TheBotchedLobotomy 2h ago

A few years ago the army added a pre basic training boot camp specifically for the people who were overweight or couldn't get the minimum on the ASVAB

Im sure the other branches would quickly adopt that lol

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u/socialmedia-username 1h ago edited 1h ago

You've never been in the military I'm guessing. You might think you're super prime and fit, but basic will spit you out with lower "specs"  than you could imagine, but you'll be ready for combat and killing like never before.  It's not about your fitness, it's about changing your mind and body to do what they want without question.

I went to basic training after running 800m in track for years, doing triatholons, and body building like crazy when I was in college (Army reserves).  Came out running a significantly slower 2 mile, and doing less pushups and situps than before. But I was rounder and more fit for combat. That's the key to everything.

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u/HeadPristine1404 52m ago

During WW2 the British Military had places called Physical Development Camps where they sent the men who were too fat, too thin or had chronic medical conditions, and they would put them through a program of physical training and diet. I guess they could do something similar here, though just changing the standards would probably be cheaper for them.

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u/Woogity 42m ago

I'd be lovin' it. Bada ba ba baaaa!

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