Posted by Rick Denney on September 18, 2001 at 13:42:51:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Marine auditions posted by Dave on September 18, 2001 at 13:14:24:
We had a thread discussing this in the past, but I can't seem to find it easily. Someone posted a website that outlined military weight requirements.
As I recall it, there is an allowed weight range for a given height, within which a person is deemed to be of appropriate body fat. If you fall outside that weight range, you may still be okay, but you have to undergo a measurement test to determine that the excess weight is not body fat.
This is always an issue for athletes, even low-grade endurance athletes such as myself, because muscle density is much greater than fat density. But the rules take it into account.
Rick "who would easily pass the tape test but not the weight test" Denney