That’s not because he didn’t do the exercise. Bootcamp doesn’t care if you lose weight, they only care if you execute the weight loss program. If you doesn’t meet any of the body proportion standards, you just have to perform extra exercise.
Bootcamp (i.e. the military) cares very much about both losing sufficient weight to meet the standard as well as the ability to perform at a basic level of physical fitness. The different U.S. military services have differing standards, but the general requirements are all comparable.
In an environment where the food supply is tightly controlled and there is constant movement, people tend to lose a lot of weight quite rapidly.
However, if you don’t meet the body proportion standards after a certain time, you will be separated from the military.
Part of the program is separating people who don’t lose weight. That doesn’t mean they care about the height/weight, only that the next box is ‘process for separation’.
There’s not a lot other than adherence to procedure that most of the military actually does care about.
I’m not sure if I’m totally missing your point, or if you’re making a point that’s a distinction without a difference.
In Army basic training, there are two standards one must meet:
height/weight, adjusted for age and gender
PT test, which consists of push-ups, sit-ups, and a 2-mile run, with scoring adjusted for age and gender
Either one will get you chaptered out of the Army within certain timeframes. There is a lot of fine print for specific situations (basic training has some extra cushion), but that’s the ground truth. These same principles apply to the military at large, but the standards and fine print differ.
I don’t know how that squares with: “That doesn’t mean they care about the height/weight.”
In an organization so devoted to adherence to procedure, what the procedures are set up to be is often a pretty strong indicator of what the organization cares about...
No individual cares about anything other than the procedures. Thus, the organization as a whole cares only about the procedures. The behavior is similar /with the procedures that exist/ to caring about fitness, but there is also a procedure to change procedure.
If the organization cared about fitness, the procedure to change the height/weight standards would be based on fitness. As it is, it is more based on politics. Therefore I conclude that the Army cares more about politics and procedures than fitness, and any behavior that looks like caring about fitness is incidental to their actual values.
That’s not because he didn’t do the exercise. Bootcamp doesn’t care if you lose weight, they only care if you execute the weight loss program. If you doesn’t meet any of the body proportion standards, you just have to perform extra exercise.
Bootcamp (i.e. the military) cares very much about both losing sufficient weight to meet the standard as well as the ability to perform at a basic level of physical fitness. The different U.S. military services have differing standards, but the general requirements are all comparable.
In an environment where the food supply is tightly controlled and there is constant movement, people tend to lose a lot of weight quite rapidly.
However, if you don’t meet the body proportion standards after a certain time, you will be separated from the military.
Part of the program is separating people who don’t lose weight. That doesn’t mean they care about the height/weight, only that the next box is ‘process for separation’.
There’s not a lot other than adherence to procedure that most of the military actually does care about.
I’m not sure if I’m totally missing your point, or if you’re making a point that’s a distinction without a difference.
In Army basic training, there are two standards one must meet:
height/weight, adjusted for age and gender
PT test, which consists of push-ups, sit-ups, and a 2-mile run, with scoring adjusted for age and gender
Either one will get you chaptered out of the Army within certain timeframes. There is a lot of fine print for specific situations (basic training has some extra cushion), but that’s the ground truth. These same principles apply to the military at large, but the standards and fine print differ.
I don’t know how that squares with: “That doesn’t mean they care about the height/weight.”
In an organization so devoted to adherence to procedure, what the procedures are set up to be is often a pretty strong indicator of what the organization cares about...
No individual cares about anything other than the procedures. Thus, the organization as a whole cares only about the procedures. The behavior is similar /with the procedures that exist/ to caring about fitness, but there is also a procedure to change procedure.
If the organization cared about fitness, the procedure to change the height/weight standards would be based on fitness. As it is, it is more based on politics. Therefore I conclude that the Army cares more about politics and procedures than fitness, and any behavior that looks like caring about fitness is incidental to their actual values.