Fats joining the military I just got back from MEPS on Friday, and am set to go to boot camp for the Marines in mid November - as an aside, the Gunny is going to try and slot me in for an early August ship date - and I am appalled at the physical condition of some of the applicants I saw. I have no idea how some people made weight!! I'm 5'9" and 165 pounds, and while that's overweight BMI, I'm able to push out a 300 on the PFT; I can also squat 300, bench 225, deadlift 350... I'm solid and stout. Anyway, there was this one fat fuck about my height, who had a very visible fat tire!! I have no idea how he made weight, since we were about the same height, and my max weight is 180 (not exactly sure on that).  This dumb fat fuck is joining the Marines and they even let this Pvt. Pyle esque fat fuck swear in. One of the GySgts had a group of us go and a modified version of the IST. This motherfucker couldn't even do a single pull-ups, only popped out five crunches in the two minutes allotted to us, and I highly fucking doubt he could run the mile in a half in less than 13:30 if we were asked to run it. In that lard encovered brain did The thought ever occur to him that the Marines are all about physicality? My one condolence is that if he squeaked by the weight for MEPS, I highly doubt he will make weight for boot. I don't want to be the guy who has to fireman carry his fat ass, and I sure as shit don't want him in the corps to begin with. We don't need fat fucks in the armed forces, why are they letting people who can't pass the initial strength test swear in?! Ugh. Rant over.