Army looking at creating deployment pay to keep soldiers in shape

We shouldn't have to pay soldiers to stay in shape or award them for being in shape. Although just because they are nondeployable doesnt mean it is necessarily just a PT thing. There are a lot of other things that you can or cannot do that will make you nondeployable.

I say give people a certain amount of time to fix issues that look like they are a pattern. if they cant then start chaptering or MED board them. Now if they are injured to where they need to rehabilitate for X amount of time then fine.

WTF? If only 10% of the nondeployables will ever return to being deployable, then why are they still in the Army? 10% of the Army is overweight? Again, WTF? Don't they still chapter people out anymore for failing the tape test after being put on the program? Sounds to me like they should focus on the procedures for transitioning nondeployable soldiers out rather than giving deplorable soldiers more money for being deployable. That seems crazy to me.

As to saying you have to be deployable to use tuition assistance and stuff like that, I'm not sure about that. If a soldier is going to school at night, and gets hurt and becomes nondeployable, I don't think they should cut off his TA while he is going through the medical review process. But if a soldier is flagged for overweight, or PT failure or something like that, I could see cutting it off. There should be a distinction between how good soldiers who become nondeployable through no fault of their own vs lazy soldiers not willing to put in the work.

I should caveat my comments by saying that I am using my frame of reference from 20 years ago, and am not up to date as to how nondeployables due to war injuries, etc are treated today