Posted on 03/16/2021 3:50:33 PM PDT by PROCON
The U.S. Army is considering reversing its plans to set a gender-neutral fitness standard in the new Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT), an Army official told Military.com last month.
The ACFT was intended to be a gender-neutral test, and would have required soldiers to score 360 out of 600 possible points, but preliminary figures showed 54 percent female soldiers failing the gender-neutral standard, as compared to 10 percent of male soldiers, according to Army data shared with the Washington Post last fall. Female soldiers were also scoring 100 points lower on the test, on average, than their male counterparts.
“We are currently in the assessment phase as we collect ACFT scores from Soldiers across the Army,” an Army spokesman told American Military News on Tuesday. “We are taking a deliberate approach to gather information from the force and conduct an independent review in accordance with the NDAA so that we can revise the ACFT to ensure it’s fair for all Soldiers and is an accurate predictor of fitness required for combat.”
Fitness test performance is tied to promotions and there has been concern that the ACFT in its current form would hold back female troops seeking advancement.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2021, included a provision that halted the Army from implementing the ACFT until the Army studies “the extent, if any, to which the test would affect recruitment and retention in critical support military occupational specialties of the Army, such as medical personnel.”
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Army Ping
#TheFutureIsFailure
The purpose of the US military used to be to kill people and break things.
Now the People’s Liberation Army has a monopoly on doing that.
I understand the need to have female operatives who can blend in to get HUMINT but any position requiring physical fitness needs to have the same requirement for all.
Well of course. Men and women...newsflash!...are different.
That’s why tranny men do so well in women’s sports. They’re men, no matter what they do to themselves, and therefore they’re stronger and in fact have an entirely different build, which gives them an advantage.
Archaeologists and forensic specialists can differentiate between men and women by the skeletons, particularly the pelvis, but also other joints, such as the elbow joint (which is why many girls can’t throw).
Leftist playing with the test scores?
Just like our elections!
Gosh. Who didn’t see this coming?
Sex kills.
A lotta dead women will lead to a lotta dead men.
We had gender-specific physical readiness testing in the 90s when I retired. Going back to that would be fine with me, because:
The average male can break the average female in half. The average very fit male can break the average very fit female in half. To suggest otherwise is to deny science, mock biology, and create real danger to women and girls.
Yeah!
However, let's see those male soldiers carry & have a baby... Snicker...
True.
Are the transgender “females” going to be held to the same standards of “fitness” as is being established for the biological females, or is this a snarky question?
The Butchers of Beijing see this stuff and laugh their a$$es off.
Chairman Xi approves.
Quote of the day
I got in so much trouble in 1993 when I told a female E-7 that the only way she got selected is due to the difference in PT scores. If she had been judged equally with the men, she wouldn’t have made E-6, much less E-7.
Unless I’m reading this wrong, it looks to me that the Army is reconsidering their lessor physical standards for women. That’s good news if so.
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