New research found that obesity in the U.S. military surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Army alone, nearly 10,000 active duty soldiers developed obesity between February 2019 and June 2021.
'The Army and the other services need to focus on how to bring the forces back to fitness,' said Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, director of the Center for Health Services Research at the Uniformed Services University