How a navy might widen the wartime recruiting pool

How could armed forces expand quickly if many potential recruits fail present physical standards?

Add a pre-entry fitness programme and widen the joining process before formal assessment and training.

Many potential recruits may fail present-day eligibility standards, often for physical reasons. An expanded accession system could prepare more of them for service instead of treating the existing qualified pool as fixed. A roughly four-week fitness programme would come before formal assessment and training. Mobilization is therefore an institutional capacity problem: a wartime force may need to prepare recruits for entry instead of demanding that every applicant arrive at peacetime standards.