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WATERTOWN, Wis. (AP) - With America at war and in need of a few good men, Jon Schoenherr expected a warm reception when he walked into an Army recruiting office in this Midwestern farm community, intending to enlist. But a sergeant gave the 17-year-old some surprising news.
"He told me I'd have to lose a little bit of weight," said Schoenherr, who dropped 50 pounds to qualify.
Besides terrorists, germ warfare and nuclear weapons, military officials increasingly worry about a different kind of threat — troops too fat to fight.
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