The US is to have a smaller military, President Obama has announced, to make it easier to work with new technology.
The average height of a US serviceman is currently 5'11. The target is that 80% of soldiers will be under 4'9 by 2015.
Smaller service personnel are more adaptable, said General Hugo Collateral of the US Joint Anatomical Topography Agency, and adaptability is the strategic key to tactical eptitude. Smaller soldiers can be packed more efficiently into transportation and it takes less fuel to launch them from a rocket-propelled cannon.
The average height of a US serviceman is currently 5'11. The target is that 80% of soldiers will be under 4'9 by 2015.
Smaller service personnel are more adaptable, said General Hugo Collateral of the US Joint Anatomical Topography Agency, and adaptability is the strategic key to tactical eptitude. Smaller soldiers can be packed more efficiently into transportation and it takes less fuel to launch them from a rocket-propelled cannon.