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My pension is quite nice, but that has to cover me from age 55 until death; my civil colleagues can soldier on to 65, because they don't have to be fit enough to go to war
I'm ex-mil, now civvy. I can honestly say that proportionally, there are more chubsters amongst the Active Mil ATCO/ATSA population than there are amongst the civvy ones. In fact some of the mil people I see milling (no pun intended) around my workplace are beyond being unfit and are a disgrace to their uniform (even if it is a hand me down from the AA)
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The Annual Fitness Test is and always has been a joke, especially when allowances for age etc are appplied.
That's not to say that I don't think the Mil people deserve the 'perks' they get, but don't use general fitness as part of your argument - it is a non starter
