'Fat troops' fallout continues as some Texas Guardsmen sent home over fitness concerns

[Aristus]

7. Someone needs to act as road guard during PT runs.

That will do the trick. Worked for me. I joined the right out of high school. Thirty pounds overweight. PT and PT runs every morning left me in breathless agony. They made me serve as a road guard during PT runs. I wore a reflective vest and carried a flashlight. When the running formation approached an intersection, it was my job to run ahead to the crossing, hold up traffic there until the formation passed, then run faster to catch up with them again.

I lost the thirty pounds and then some by the end of Basic.

Not incidentally, that was right around the time I started having some success with women.