Posted on Oct 26, 2018
What does the army consider an obese soldier?
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Don't know about the Army, or the current USMC standard; but it used to be 18% body fat for men. I apologize but I did do not know what the standard was for women. Usually determined by skin pinch calipers, but A Marine could also submit a full body immersion or body density electric resistance test.
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It's currently 22% for men in the army, but if theyre able to do their job well, pass pt tests with a good score, and don't have profiles or injuries i think they should be okay.but the military likes people to be uniform in as many ways as possible, even in bodyfat composition.
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Just look in the AR for ABCP - it's right there what's considered obese. They're allegedly reviewing that but we see how long those reviews take. They do need to find a better way because basing anything on the antiquated model of BMI is ridiculous.
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My 2 cents.. I don't know if they updated the BCI charts used, but when I was in they were horrible. Had a senior NCO, awesome sailor, big weightlifter, and he would fail the BCT every year because he was big. He became the unit's PT leader, and I took him to get a water buoyancy measurement, and every year I had to submit that with his record. Hopefully, that has changed since then...
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