not just obese tishgs a major issue, also having the problems with education requirements and kids with criminal backgrounds. it s a real credit to the recruiters we re making recruiter goals baufr the problems they have to go out and talk to more team. you know as well as i do, this isn t a new issue, goes back to world war ii, we had recruits not fit to fight then. congress passed the national school lunch program, and now my question to you is, whose responsibility is this? does it again fall on our lawmakers to make sure our kids are fit and these recruits are fit to fight? caller: i think it s a challenge for the nation. i think there s a number of things we have to look at for our young people. in terms of education. in terms of their nutrition. it s thing wes have to step back and look at as a nation as we move forward. and i just have to ask you as well. this group our d.c., this mission readiness group that put out this report.
or are they joining and just not passing the pt? it s in a couple of ways. some of them are too fat to be admitted to the military and some of them wash out in the first year or two of joini inin military. according to this mission readiness group, kyra, 1,200 first-time recruits had to leave the service because they re overweight. when you consider that it costs about $50,000 to train up each recruit, 1,200 of them washing out of the services every year, that s $60 million. it s a huge taxpayer expense. let s take a look at what the general and his army are suggesting here. we put together a full screen starting and this is the child nutrition bill starting with removing junk food from the schools. take us through what they y re saying here. well, remove junk food from schools, take out all of those empty-calorie foods, the tater tots that jamie oliver was talking act, some of the other foods, not to say that tater tots aren t delicious but they re not exactly the most nutri