Obesity becoming a major impediment to American military recruiting


	Obesity becoming a major impediment to American military recruiting

Spiritualmonkey

1-15-2009 2:35 AM

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military, iraq, afghanistan, food, fat, health, exercise, education

Spiritualmonkey says:

We are becoming too fat, weak, and uneducated to properly field an army.

America (FUCK YEAH!)
Coming again to for another extra-large Coke
America (FUCK YEAH!)
McDonalds is the only way, now

Literacy your game is through
Learn all we need from the glowing tube

America (FUCK YEAH!)

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1-15-2009 11:39 AM

debbyski

Fuck yeah.

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