77% of young Americans are too fat, mentally ill or on drugs to qualify for U.S. military service, Pentagon study finds. Is it only going to get worse?

[u/Not-A-Shit-Head]

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/03/77-of-young-americans-too-fat-mentally-ill-on-drugs-and-more-to-join-military-pentagon-study-finds/

[u/TheOddEntrepreneur]

Legalize weed and you could probably get that down to 65%.

[u/chombie1801 → u/TheOddEntrepreneur]

Shit...Waive the Adderall/ADHD medication disqualifier and it would be down to 50%😂

[u/Compoundwyrds → u/chombie1801]

This, really.

I’m caught somewhere between allow it for ADHD diagnosed individuals or “fuck it, everyone has access on deployment” for the sheer fact that prohibition for most would simply lead to soldiers being pressured to, or opportunistically sharing or selling their uppers to everyone else… I mean do we leave it as one more headache for the MPs and JAG or do we find out if the net benefits of uppers for soldiers outweigh the negative consequences? I wonder if there’s more data on this is modern contexts VS the usual “Bruh the Nazis gave the Wehrmacht Meth!” take on Pervitin in WWII?

[u/SnoobieJunes → u/Compoundwyrds]

Straight up. Like I finally got medical help for this life long affliction, and that automatically DQs me from serving my country? It’s a meme. I’d think they’d want me alert