by Jeff O’Hara | Georgia Wing Civil Air Patrol

At the SER/GAWG conference last weekend, I looked around at some of my fellow “over gross weight” fellow officers crammed into their blues (buttons threatening to become projectiles) and wondered how many fat guys are already ignoring their personal realities to seek 4XL shirts and 48 waist trousers to turn themselves into military caricatures, looking like drogue parachutes draped over beer barrels.