Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Samuel Hill weighs Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Nathan Perrin during body composition assessments aboard the carrier Abraham Lincoln. (MCS Joey Sitter/Navy ...

According to Navy data, nearly 25,000 sailors, most of them from the junior enlisted ranks, were in a weight management ...

Kathryn Cole, a service spokeswoman who provided a lengthy statement in response to Military Times queries. Since then, "there have been knowledge and technology advances in body composition ...