Posted on Sep 22, 2015
Christie tells National Guard leader to slim down; anybody else think this is hilarious?
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Hilarious, yes - but he's right, the Guardsman has a standard to abide by...whereas elected officials do not.
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CPO Randy Francis
The Governor's correct. And he's not the one that is required to comply with military standards - the General is. The Governor's a civilian and has no obligation whatsoever to comply with military standards.
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SGT John Rauch - While I do think it ironic and funny, the fact is that the military has height/weight standards that must be adhered to, while there is no such requirement to serve as governor, even if he happens to be commander-in-chief of the Guard.
If this general has been in violation for some time and has been "dodging physical fitness tests", as stated in the article , he should be removed from his position, not given 90 days to comply.
If this general has been in violation for some time and has been "dodging physical fitness tests", as stated in the article , he should be removed from his position, not given 90 days to comply.
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COL Jean (John) F. B.
CPL Phillipe Farneti - LOL... :-)
I have steadfastly stated for years that I would much rather have a fat good soldier than a skinny crappy one. I think the Army has discharged a great many good soldiers because of the weight control regs. I always gave my soldiers great lee-way and the benefit of the doubt as far as weight control went. As long as they were genuinely trying to lose weight, I worked with them, even if it was not totally IAW policy.
I have steadfastly stated for years that I would much rather have a fat good soldier than a skinny crappy one. I think the Army has discharged a great many good soldiers because of the weight control regs. I always gave my soldiers great lee-way and the benefit of the doubt as far as weight control went. As long as they were genuinely trying to lose weight, I worked with them, even if it was not totally IAW policy.
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MSgt Danny Hope
I agree, everyone should have to maintain standards...unfortunately the military has always had multiple standards. It may just be me, but I remember a lot of personnel in the medical field that failed to meet standards, but it was always explained away as something ignored because of personnel shortages.
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COL Jean (John) F. B.
MSgt Danny Hope - Yes ... It was more a result of their chain of command not enforcing standards. The medical folks hated it when I came to one of their facilities. Let's just say that I was not shy about calling out failure to meet standards and failure to enforce standards. I had more than one memorable event with the medical chain of command. Not an indictment on all, but that career field seemed more apt than others to ignore the regs about appearance standards.
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MSgt Danny Hope
COL Jean (John) F. B. - Thanks for confirming that it wasn't just my imagination. I do have to be fair however, when ever I needed to be treated, I could not complain about the quality of care (most times)
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I am surprised the General wasn't fired. What got Governor Christie fired up about it wasn't that the General didn't meet the Air Force standards, it was that he had received a reprimand for dodging the PT test and weigh in the past three years and neglected to tell the Governor about it. Christie gave him three months to meet the standard.
Pretty generous, in my mind. I think he should have been canned.
Pretty generous, in my mind. I think he should have been canned.
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