Obama’s Army: Defining Fitness Down.

The Army has started a new, less intense basic training program:

“The new fitness regime tries to deal with all these problems by incorporating more stretching, more exercises for the abdomen and lower back, instead of the traditional situps, and more agility and balance training.There are fewer situps, different kinds of push-ups and fewer long runs, which Army officials say are good for building strength and endurance but often lead to injuries. They also do not necessarily prepare soldiers for carrying heavy packs or sprinting short distances."

The big question remains: Was the motivation behind this actually the safety and proper preparation of soldiers or rather a grand social experiment to boost the recruitment and promotion of women?