Word: unfitness
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...team peered and prodded each man as he filed past. These were hard-bellied soldiers, tanned and toughened by training. This was their final physical, which War Department regulations require within 48 hours of embarkation. A few men were motioned out of line: hernia or hemorrhoids make a man unfit for combat. Sometimes a heart or a lung case turns up. Sometimes a mental case, dormant in training...
...over 35 and cannot do six out of eight, you are physically unfit. So says National Physical Fitness Director John B. Kelly. If you are under 35, you should be able to do better...
...Nearly 40% of our draftees," Kelly declares, "were rejected as unfit for military service, and a majority of those accepted . . . did not possess skills necessary for self-protection. It is estimated that 50% of our armed forces, when inducted, cannot swim well enough to save their lives, and lack the strength, agility and endurance to jump ditches, scale walls, throw missiles and stand up under forced marches...
...offices of the Woman's Home Companion last week as "Morons Into What?", the latest proposal by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, went on the Companion presses. In his article Professor Hooton advocates regulation of the American breeding stock and sterilization of all men and women unfit to produce good citizens...
America is China's ally. Americans say they love and admire the Chinese. But can you go to America, can you become citizens? No. Americans don't want you. They just want you to do their fighting. Their Exclusion Act names you and says you are unfit for American citizenship. If Generalissimo Chiang really has influence in America, why has he not had this stigma erased from American law? There will be no such discrimination against you in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...