The US military has always had height requirements, to make sure troops can use standard-sized equipment. I bet Norway has minimum height, too, for the same reason.
Men and women must be between 58 inches (4' 10" or 1.47m) to 80 inches (6' 8" or 2m).
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![Press Releases
NGB Statement on Fitness Standards for Mobilization
25-015 | Oct. 9, 2025
[Department of Defense logo]
All National Guard Soldiers and Airmen are required to meet service-specific height, weight and physical fitness standards at all times. When mobilizing for active duty, members go through a validation process to ensure they meet requirements. On the rare occasions when members are found not in compliance, they will not go on mission. They will be returned to their home station, and replacements who do meet standards will take their places. The National Guard, states, territories and District of Columbia are committed to excellence and lethality and are laser-focused on compliance and standards.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gplfsrdktdohpzwtdy5bp3yp/bafkreiabjbszyoolek3ok3vtimalgsepgvifme5q3apnprbtmx2ng4s5ra@jpeg)
![The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues...
Please pray especially for the children, for the mothers and fathers who are being treated inhumanely.
Please step up and speak out.
Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family.
Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling
[Below the post is a photo showing many people dressed in yellow t-shirts and several holding crosses, flags, or images of the Virgin Mary (La Virgen Migrante)].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gplfsrdktdohpzwtdy5bp3yp/bafkreidltqikn6kfvdu4dcm2lxn57oq3nt6ovqk2las5e4gobo2gygnweq@jpeg)
![A comic styled like a newspaper article. There is a drawing on the left of a male judge at the bend. On the right, a photo of an older man with a thick beard and unruly hair, wearing a thick turtleneck sweater and coveralls, and smoking a pipe. The article reads, 'Utilitarian Judge Slaps Shrimp Boat Captain With Five Hundred Million Consecutive One-Minute Sentences.'
'Earlier this week, a Massachusetts judge sentenced Gloucester native and lifelong shrimper Eustace Merm to 500,000,000 consecutive one-minute sentences, or about 950 years in prison, under the state's new animal cruelty law.'
'Judge Paul Danser, a Harvard Law graduate and diehard proponent of utilitarian ethics, says that he calculated the punishment by approximating the number of shrimp deaths Merm was responsible for, and then multiplying by the relative level of consciousness a shrimp experiences compared to a human. "I think you'll find the estimate is actually rather conservative" Danser remarks. "To your average shrimp, Mr. Merm would be considered nearly a thousand times more evil than Hitler."'
'Merm's attorney, Jacob DeAngelo, protested the decision, countering that from a utilitarian standpoint, the pleasure that shrimp consumption brings to people offsets its meager suffering cost. But Danser remained unconvinced.' [text continues in next image]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gplfsrdktdohpzwtdy5bp3yp/bafkreidjs2eqgw55aw4ya6ksywvcbwyb3v7qstyxrrbffqdluav7ehsq2i@jpeg)
!['What we should also know is that this deal could have been done a long time ago. Hamas agreed to all the same terms in September 2024, as outlined in the “Three Weeks Deal” that I had received in both written and voice messages, in Arabic and English. But at that point, the Israeli negotiators responded that “the Prime Minister did not agree to end the war.” Even though the “Three Week Deal” proposal landed on the desk of President Biden, his person in charge, Bret McGurk, refused to stray from the bad deal that he was negotiating.'
'Working the back channel'
'I met with members of the American negotiating team in October 2024, and they were as frustrated as I was with [the rest of this sentence is highlighted] their inability to convince Biden and Biden’s people to look seriously at the deal on the table. The Qataris invited me to Doha in October 2024, and I presented to them the deal that Hamas agreed to, which they were fully aware of, but they said that without the American adoption of the plan, nothing could be done, because the obstacle was Israel, not Hamas. That is the same message I received from the Egyptian intelligence – Hamas was ready for a deal to release all of the hostages, not to govern Gaza any longer, and to end the war. But Israel was not prepared to go ahead.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gplfsrdktdohpzwtdy5bp3yp/bafkreieicprsm7b5v7bxife6kzhvdgursw6d3xpj5ax253ad5kn2dilveq@jpeg)
![What happened.
Last Saturday 10/4, a judge in the U.S. District Court in Portland granted our motion for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), blocking the president's order to deploy Oregon National Guard troops to Portland.
The federal government appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court, requesting a stay -- essentially, asking the appeals court to pause the district court's ruling, so the president can deploy the Oregon National Guard after all.
[Last sentences in bold.] This morning, a three-judge panel of Ninth Circuit judges heard oral arguments from both sides on the government's stay motion. It is now up to these judges to keep the president in check. Dan Rayfield, Attorney General.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gplfsrdktdohpzwtdy5bp3yp/bafkreierkixzox7yiozfjjimcx4geacggirhg6de5k3qpyue6zvava6eae@jpeg)
