Posted on 05/22/2014 5:30:04 PM PDT by QT3.14
The Associated Press reports:
More than half of female Marines in boot camp can't do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs.
The delay rekindled sharp debate in the military on the question of whether women have the physical strength for some military jobs, as service branches move toward opening thousands of combat roles to them in 2016.
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personally i don’t believe corp leadership is for this. i believe it’s being forced on them by president mom jeans.
Yep. Soldiers never need to climb over walls, quickly climb out of the top hatch of an APC, or any other activity that involves being able to lift your own weight. /S
might be the only way the va actually gets better. of course it may only improve for females, given how govt half-asses everything.
Even Lynch considered herself to be a show puppet they used for PR purposes.
If this had of occurred during Obama’s years, I would not think much of it. But that President Bush allowed this on his watch is disturbing to me.
Lying for PR purposes is bad, bad, bad....! Nothing new though. Ira Hayes...one of the Marines that raised the flag on Iwo Jima is an example from WWII.
Humans are sexually dimorphic. Men have significantly more upper body strength. This is important in many endeavors, and breaking things and killing people as part of an organized group is right up there at the top of the list where this is so.
Liberals would have us ignore biology and sacrifice our military prowess, and more importantly our troops on the ground, to the gods of Political Correctness.
The standard obstacle course required a lot of upper body strength. How about hoisting a 90 pound pack up on your back in a hurry. How about carrying your 230 lb buddy in a fireman carry in an outright run.
This PC garbage will get a lot of good men and women dead.
When are they required to sign up for Selective Service? Uh, huh. Thought so.
She should have never been in that position in the first place.
Just because I can’t throw a football accurately doesn’t mean I’m not competitive.. ( huh? ) /s
There was a time in the Marine corps when the female standards and the male standards were the same?
When was that?
It is a known fact that menses synchronizes when women are grouped together. Another thing to take into account.
I’d certainly like to believe you and I hope you are right. I am suspicious thought because just like under Clinton many brass resigned their commission. Those that remained either looked past it or believed in him. I suspect the latter with this bafoon of a pRESIDENT
Just give them a 100 LB box of tools for aircraft maintenance to lug around and tell them to shut up and carry it themselves...
that’s what happened when I was in the USAF years ago...
they opened up the aircraft mechanics jobs to women and the next thing you know its the guys complaining..
the women were moaning that the guys wouldn’t be nice gentlemen and carry the females heavy gear...as well as their own...
and the grease was just ruining their manicures :)
True story
LOL
I boil when I hear PSA's on the radio reminding men to register and failure to do so will result in no federal student loans or employment. There may be more.
Where are the gals DEMANDING equality!!!
You are not appropriate for high office or a policy making position in the DOD.
When I was 48 years old I was at P.I. one weekend. I went to the obstacle course rope and climbed it to the top arms only, no legs. So if some 19 year woman can't do a few pull ups, we're supposed let other's lives depend on her in combat?
"I'm sorry Mrs. Smith, your son died because the only other infantryman there was a woman who was a champ at giving birth but she couldn't drag or carry him to safety because she didn't have the requisite upper body strength for her job.....which was NOT giving birth."
Prezactly!
honestly they have little choice to implement if, if ordered to do so. many have resigned, but who wants to do that, and it won’t change libtards doing tis.
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