The Iowa Army National Guard Recruit Sustainment Program's mission is to help prepare enlistees for initial entry training.  Physical preparedness is a vital element of the RSP effort.   IARNG officers, senior enlisted personnel, RSP Cadre and enlistees recently spent a week-end at Camp Dodge sharpening their physical readiness training instructional skills.  Iowan's can and should be very proud of our citizen soldiers. 

The high schools have usually failed to face reality as to their contributions to possible future adult physical education and recreation.  They have generally assumed that if the major emphasis in high school physical education was on individual and team sports such as tennis, golf, badminton, archery, volleyball and softball, training in these sports would carry over into good and adequate after-school habits of recreation and exercise.  All of the surveys have shown that this supposition is not true; and, moreover, if the training in sports did so carry over, in almost no community are there enough facilities for such recreation to accommodate 5 percent of the eighteen to forty-five year-old population.  Yet this type of program for the high schools and colleges has been almost solely emphasized, and, as a result, physical education has, as a profession, done very little for the adult, after-schooling-age population; and the literature is strangely silent on methods for solving this problem.