Unfortunately this is no laughing matter....In 1998, the number of military personnel diagnosed overweight or obese stood at 25,652, or 1.6 percent of the entire armed forces. In 2003, it increased to 34,333 (2.1 percent), and from then to 2008 the number doubled to 68,786 (4.4 percent of the total).
A 2005 poll of the US military established that "stress and return from deployment were the most frequently cited reasons for recent weight gain," the report said.
The US military has shown signs of overall exhaustion after years of deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And beside weight gain, the US Army has seen a sharp increase in suicides that hit a record 143 in 2008, compared to 115 the year before.
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GREAT. Glad to know the teenagers losing their life overseas are hanging themselves fat and happy. So sad, these men and women are too young to live their life under extreme stress, fear, rage, and darkness. NO WAR IS WORTH THE LIVES OF OUR YOUTH!!!
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