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Article: Air Force toughening members' fitness regime.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- October 17, 2003
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Byline: John Diedrich
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ Lt. Joshua Reeves knows how important it is to be in shape for his job. He spent June and July in Baghdad, building an Air Force compound under the searing Iraqi sun. The protocol officer credits his fitness routine of five 90-minute workouts a week with getting him through the mission. "If you aren't in shape, that will take it out of you," he said.
To get airmen in better shape for increasingly tough overseas missions, Gen. John Jumper, the Air Force's top general, ordered an overhaul to the service's fitness program.
"The amount of energy we devote to our fitness programs is not consistent with ...