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Might also be important to note that sailors on an aircraft carrier are primarily college-aged.

~50% of enlisted sailors are 25 or younger, with each successive age bracket getting smaller. For officers it is more like ~13% and it's evenly distributed by age bracket.

Also 0% with asthma, obesity, diabetes, etc.

Not true. For various reasons, the military grants medical waivers and allows some people with asthma and other afflictions to remain enlisted.

Yeah, but that number is going to be way lower than the average population.

Asthma, no. Diabetes, no. There is not a single person on that ship with either, they’re both disqualifying from shipboard service.

There are probably some people who are overweight to a varying degree, but again people who get overweight and don’t get back within standards get removed from the Navy.

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