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Originally Posted by Icelander
Below HT 10, someone can't finish military training or is medically disqualified before it starts. That means every soldier has HT 10 at minimum, and a significant portion of them will have higher HT, especially those who work out a lot (required for many MOSes) and/or have active hobbies. Finally, anyone who finished military training and continues to qualify for any kind of combat MOS will have at least Fit.
This means that all soldiers have effective HT 11+ and probably a majority of those who train room clearing have 12+.
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That may be true for every peacetime army or a army which can afford to be choosy, like the US for example today.
Most armys who have conscription, may have a lot of people spending time in the army who have to be considered unfit for frontline duty due to bad sight, and a bunch of other lesser medical problems. You can also add low morale since they are forced to serve, and they are often in the rear area or non combat dutys in this armys. Just look at russia here.
It gets even worse if landlocked countrys fight a actual war, than they take everybody who can hold a gun and doesnīt endangers the own side more than the enemy.
But this isnīt the end, if the war takes longer and gets all out, they take everyone who can walk maybe not even that. Here a look at the german Volksturm helps, in the last year of WWII the wehrmacht had a whole division composed of soldiers with severe gastrointestinal problems!