Super-fit mother graduates from Army boot camp at age of FIFTY ONE with higher score than recruits less than half her age

A 51-year-old woman has outperformed recruits less than half her age after graduating from U.S. Army Basic Combat Training with one of the highest physical fitness test scores in her company.

Army Sergeant Sandra Coast, who had to lose 30lbs just to qualify, achieved better scores than both her male and female peers, who have an average age of 23.

Indeed, they are closer in age to her son, Jeff, himself in the U. S. Marine Corps, than they are to her.

This didn't stop her from pitting herself against them though.

Her first sergeant, Army 1st Sgt John Byars said: 'I was impressed, because she can do everything the younger soldiers do. She never expected us to feel sorry for her...

'She is a prime example that age is just a number. She ran faster than soldiers young enough to be her kids.'

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