This is an alarming number considering these personnel are serving and defending our country’s interest. Our country as a whole has an image of our military force as the biggest, toughest, and strongest military in the world. However, the reality is, there is a large population of our military who struggle to maintain the fitness standard which originate from fairly obvious problems. The problems stem from a few factors including places for personnel to purchase food, attitudes toward fitness, and nutritional education. Many of our service members have a lackadaisical approach to fitness, little to no knowledge of maintaining a nutritional diet, and make poor decisions on food choice due to an abundance of fast food options