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US navy loosens body fat guidelines after losing too many talented sailors

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New rule allows sailors to retake physical fitness tests if they failed for exceeding body fat limits as service becomes ‘more realistic’

The US navy is giving another chance to thousands of sailors who otherwise would be kicked out for repeatedly failing physical fitness tests because they exceeded body fat limits.

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Seeds of salvation – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

It’s Bente Navaerdal’s job to check on the vault. When she first came to Svalbard, she thought she would stay just three years, but it didn’t take long before the remote Arctic archipelago had a hold on her. “I felt it the moment I landed at the airport, ‘Yeah, this is my place on Earth’,” she says. An engineer, she is now into her fourth year on Svalbard and has no intention of leaving anytime soon. “I hope that in three, four, five years I can feel like, ‘OK, now I am finished with Svalbard and I can go back [to the mainland]’, but I’m not sure,” she says. “I’m really not sure.”

Source: Seeds of salvation – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)