Army May Relax Weight Standards for Cyber Warriors
I do not understand why these people are not just hired as contractors or DA civilians?
Patriotic hackers, your big belly may no longer hinder national security.
Over 70 percent of Americans between ages 17 and 24 can’t become soldiers, the U.S. Army reports, because of three big issues: obesity, lack of education, and criminal records. Overweight problems are growing the fastest of all with around a quarter of teens and young adults qualifying as obese, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Weight issues result in 18 percent of military recruiting disqualifications but the number is rising and expected to hit 25 percent by 2025.
The situation is particularly harrowing when it comes to cyberwarfare, one of the crucial military arenas of the 21st century. So in response to the great fattening of America’s potential cybersoldiers, the U.S. Army may relax physical requirements in order to recruit the very best. (Daily Dot)
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While almost every outlet that carried this story hinted that this is what is planned no military spokesman actually says that. They just keep reusing that line about “we won’t hold you to Ranger strndards” which is stupid because no one cept the Rangers are held to those.
Rumor has it ARCYBER’s in a slight panic because som GO shot his mouth off about how they were going to be flush with green suited talent but reality says otherwise. Most NCO’s can’t even perform simple IMO tasks.
Will they relax vision standards?
…so guys with thick glasses (taped in the middle) can go out and wage cyber war?
I’m not going to say where I work, but let’s just say that it contains 3 letters, two of which are consonants… That being said, I’m also not going to say where within that particular organization I work, but let’s just say that I can confidently say that the best and brightest no-shit hackers in the country are generally not fat. In fact most of them are pretty scrawny or perfectly average…and there are actually quite a few health nuts here as well.
So ARCYBER can STFU because I know what they contribute to the fight via USCC (which itself contributes little-to-nothing and still has no idea what it wants to be “when it grows up”) and its nearly nothing.
“I’m not going to say where I work, but let’s just say that it contains 3 letters, two of which are consonants”
Why would the TSA need hackers?
I worked for a company with 3 letters, two of which are consonants and leaked classified information from a company with 3 letters, two of which are consonants. I also worked as a system administrator for a company with 3 letters, two of which are vowels, and as a counterintelligence trainer at a company also with 3 letters, two of which are vowels.
So since tubby can’t get slim enough to be a warrior are they going to also give them a pass on basic & AIT too? Last time I looked, the big guys tend to get smaller and the small guys get bigger, or at least that’s what happened in my basic platoon, I was skin & bones and gained 20 pounds of muscle mass in 8 weeks. My battle buddy was a little heavier than average. Exchanged his BDU’s at week 4 and lost a lot of weight. Tell big boy to put down the cheeseburgers and Doritos and actually go outside and move. I’ve seen recruiters in my hometown get future soldiers to do PT with them before basic to drop the excess weight and get them in shape for the test. Jr. wannabe hacker can carve an hour or two out of his busy hacking schedule to lose a few pounds. Although when the FOB gets overrun I’m not packing his big body over my shoulder, he’s on his own. Perhaps the POW medal looks good next to a Purple Heart on the black velvet medal holder.
Yeah I used to work for a unit with a “2” and a “ID”, in an office that had a “G” and a “6” and I tell you when I got there it was filled with dumba55es and lazy people. The dumba55es wore ACU’s, the lazy people didn’t. After enough time and much much much MUCH MUUUUUCCCHHHHH frustration of trying to get that office on track I realized that the lazy people were lazy mainy because they were tired of dealing with the dumba55es. The dumba55es were that way because the higher paid dumba55es at DA didn’t dissolve the Signal Corp and build something along the lines of ARCYBER from the get go back in the early 90’s.
2ID Doc: I had much the same experience as you, except EVERYBODY lost weight in basic due to malnutrition – but that’s a story for another time. You brought up the POW medal. When was the last time we had troops captured at Fort Gordon and who were the bad asses who pulled it off?
Malnutrition? Where’d you go to basic? Camp Ghetto?
809 at Fort Jackson – very top of Tank Hill – with reserve cooks who were more interested in vacationing, Protrain Drills, etc. We just kinda slipped through the cracks.
Anyhoo, let’s talk about the time Fort Gordon was overran. It sounds like those troops had it worse.
Ugh.. Tank Hill… 🙁
I’d all but put that thing in a dark corner of my mind, thanks for reminding me of that place.
LOL TSA. OH man. I should have just fvckin’ said NSA.
Sorry Jimbob… these are shark-infested waters.
…and TSA is the lamest 3 letter agency that fit your conditions… except for, maybe, HUD.
So, would you trust the NSA data miners not to pass around the nude selfies I took of myself in front of the mirror with my package tucked while saying, “It puts the lotion on its body or it gets the hose”?
Oh, wait, they already got busted for passing around nude photos of hot girl selfies.
O.K. Next question.
Would you trust the NSA data miners not to get information about company A and sell it to company B… not as an official policy, mind you, but as kind of a side business for workers with access to data… kinda like the hot girl selfies.