http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/28/army-fitness-standards-for-fat-cyber-warriors-may-/
By Douglas Ernst
The Washington Times
October 28, 2014
There U.S. Army’s recruitment pool keeps getting bigger — around the
waistline — a reality that is forcing its top brass to consider relaxing
fitness standards for future “cyber warriors.”
Maj. Gen. Allen Batschelet, commanding general for the U.S. Army
Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky., recently spoke of the challenges
recruiters face in a nation where 70 percent of young people between the
ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible to serve.
“Today, we need cyber warriors, so we’re starting to recruit for Army
Cyber,” Gen. Batschelet toldthe Florida Times-Union Oct. 23. “One of the
things we’re considering is that your [mission] as a cyber warrior is
different.; Maybe you’re not the Ranger who can do 100 pushups, 100
sit-ups and run the 2-mile inside of 10 minutes, but you can crack a data
system of an enemy. But you’re physically fit, you’re a healthy person and
maintain your professional appearance, but we don’t make you have the same
physical standards as someone who’s in the Ranger Battalion,” he added.
The officer told the paper that successfully implementing such a decision
would require the Army to undergo a cultural change that “is kind of a
different definition of quality.”
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