Marines remain the few, the proud, the skinny under new standards
By: Jeff Schogol | Published: 2026-02-26 21:01:29 | Source: taskandpurpose.com
Under new Marine Corps body composition rules released on Thursday, Marines now must be slightly skinnier than Pentagon standards announced in January. For Marines of fairly average height, that will mean keeping their waistlines somewhere between 2 and 3 inches below the military-wide requirement.
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