Updated Army Service Dress project

[Colin Parkinson]

It is funny, because I meet women who will defend that bowler hat to the death.

The Navy one looks smart, but the army one was hideous.

 

[Eaglelord17]

As pointed ut by @dapaterson, the test exists to show people meet the minimum standard to serve. Nobody thinks that the person struggling to pass the FORCE test is "fit", just that they meet the minimum standard.


So, the real issue wasn't that they were unfit, it was that the person was a POS. Linking the two is just a way to rationalize your predisposition toward a particular look.

Those highschoolers are the future, so how do you propose to get them into better shape, apart from complaining about one fat Stoker was and how the rest of us who still serve don't always fit your image of a perfect CAF member?

If your solution is as bad as your solution to uniforms not fitting women, perhaps consider yourself lucky you aren't still in...

Fitness is part of them being a POS. The minimum standard is below the floor. I can point out plenty of examples of people I have met who could pass the minimum but not succeed at the job. Everyone else is then working harder to make up for their weakness.

If fitness isn’t important to you, maybe it should be. The Protecteur fire illustrated how important fitness is for Naval members. Keeping peoples weight down is also important for casualty clearing, both moving casualties and being the casualties. Not to mention you need to be fit to do said task.

I would make the highschoolers meet the standard by physically training them. You can mold people into what you need, that is the whole point in training. Personally I would up the standards not drop them. Having low standards really doesn’t help morale. It causes your better troops to question why they are there and it allows your sick, lame, and lazy to keep on going, in spite of it dragging down the rest.

 

[Furniture]

I can point out plenty of examples of people I have met who could pass the minimum but not succeed at the job.

I can point ot lots of fit people who are toxic and useless, but they aren't that way because they cut a fine figure in their DEUs.

Fitness is part of them being a POS. The minimum standard is below the floor. I can point out plenty of examples of people I have met who could pass the minimum but not succeed at the job. Everyone else is then working harder to make up for their weakness.

If fitness isn’t important to you, maybe it should be. The Protecteur fire illustrated how important fitness is for Naval members. Keeping peoples weight down is also important for casualty clearing, both moving casualties and being the casualties. Not to mention you need to be fit to do said task.

I never said fitness wasn't important, just that it isn't as important as some of you pretend.

The PRO fire highlighted a lot of issues, fitness was way down at the bottom of list of issues.

Having low standards really doesn’t help morale. It causes your better troops to question why they are there and it allows your sick, lame, and lazy to keep on going, in spite of it dragging down the rest.

"Better" troops because they lift sandbags faster, or better at actually doing the job?

 

[rmc_wannabe]

So.... anyways.

Things look to be moving along nicely with the project, eh? Not bad for checks notes 2 and a half years.