Youths ‘too fat’ to enlist
`Young Australians are becoming too drugged and too fat to answer the call to serve their country in the military.
Increasingly unhealthy lifestyles – coupled with the ageing population and competition from private sector jobs – are hindering efforts by the Australian Defence Force to attract enough physically and mentally fit recruits to defend the nation. [..]
“The high incidence of non-medical drug use among young people (recent studies suggesting up to 50 per cent of 15-year-olds smoke marijuana at least once a month) … severely limits the pool of recruitable candidates,” says the ADF recruiting report, completed last month.’
