Posted on 07/26/2014 7:03:01 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
FDNY ‘babying’ cadet who can’t pass fitness tests: classmate
By Kenneth Garger and Daniel Prendergast
She walked through her running tests and got winded climbing stairs, yet a physically unfit female FDNY probie was still allowed out in the field like a normal graduate — and given a year to pass, The Post has learned. “She’s literally the most pathetic specimen of physical fitness I’ve ever seen,” fumed an academy classmate of Choeurlyne Doirin, 39, who was given a uniform and a “light-duty” assignment even though she did not graduate on June 2 with the other 286 cadets. Prospective firefighters are required to complete a grueling 18 weeks of academy training that includes being able to run 1¹/₂ miles in 12 minutes without gear. But the over-the-hill Doirin failed to meet the required time, taking more than 18 minutes to huff-and-puff her way across the finish line.
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common practice.
Leftist org sues for whatever reason, politicians settle and make big payout.
This is one of the major funders of leftist groups as well as grants and other things.
Need to break a few eggs to make an omelet.
Communist saying.
It doesn’t matter how many people have to die for the cause.
He also paid out $40 million to the Central park rapists even though every indication exists that says they were guilty. Imagine that, you or your sister, daughter, mother or wife is raped, and this piece of rat slime pays the rapists $40 million bucks. How evil is that crap?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/justice/new-york-central-park-five/
Ann Coulter wrote a good column on this last month, I absolutely agree with her.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-04-23.html
thanks for the link
ever heard of “Pigford” ?
From the article at link...
Doirin said she was one of several candidates — both male and female — whose ailments prevented them from completing the course, and who were still brought aboard and given light-duty jobs.
No not in Texas. I am in a large county in Califonia. We have ove 400 people in our couny fie dept.
Has nothing to do with being a feminist. Anyone wih any ains should realize that physically most women cannot do the same job as a man.
You would think. I don't understand why a conservative woman would apparently buy into the lie that women are somehow inequal or inferior because we are DIFFERENT.
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