The 14th China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China) will open from November 8 to 13 this year at Zhuhai Air Show Center in Southeast China’s Guangdong Province.
Introduction This article is the first in a two-part series on the evolution of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) enlisted force. Part one provides background and examines key issues in the PLA’s conscription and recruitment of enlisted personnel. Part two overviews the role of the enlisted force in the annual training cycle. The PLA’s yearly training cycle has always revolved …
<strong>Overweight soldiers</strong>
According to newspaper reports, statistics compiled by the Ministry of National Defense’s Medical Affairs Bureau show that more than 10,000 members of Taiwan’s armed forces have a body mass index (BMI) of more than 30, which puts them in the category of “moderately obese.”
General Chen Pao-yu (陳寶餘), chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces, is rumored to be very angry about this and to have said that those with a BMI of more than 30 should be weeded out.
It is really hard to imagine how anyone in the military could have a BMI