Report: 84% of Women Fail New Army Combat Fitness Test

CNSNews ^ | November 8, 2019 | Kharen Martinez Murcia

[jazusamo]

(CNSNews.com) – In a new report, the Center for Military Readiness says that 84% of women fail the New Army Combat Fitness Test and that “all military officials should drop the ‘gender diversity’ agenda and put mission readiness and ‘combat lethality’ first.”

“It makes no sense for recruiters to devote more time and money recruiting ‘gender diverse’ trainees who are more likely to be injured, less likely to want infantry assignments, and less likely to remain through basic training or physically-demanding combat arms assignments for twenty years or more,” states the CMR report .

On the other side of the issue, the Department of Defense Women in Service Review says it “conducted an extensive review of all laws and policies concerning women in the armed forces” in 2011 and 2012, taking into consideration “the outstanding performance of more than 280,000 women who deployed and served alongside men in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

As a result, in 2016, after what the DOD describes as “five years of extensive research, analysis, and scrutiny,” the Department decided to eliminate restrictions on what positons women could hold in the military, opening 213,600 positons that had been closed to women and 52 “closed military occupational specialties.”

According to the Department of Defense , 16% of the overall active duty force is comprised of females, with 170,000 women enlisted and over 40,000 women officers.

“[T]hese occupations, positions, and platforms will be available for the assignment of all men or women who meet the validated occupational standards,” said the DOD report. “Anyone, regardless of gender, who can meet operationally relevant standards, will have the opportunity to serve in any position.”

The Center for Military Readiness argues against policy changes to allow women to serve in the infantry or in “direct ground combat.”

“Pentagon leaders pushed for gender quotas of 25-30 percent of women and 10 percent in the Marine Corps,” which the CMR says led to lowering the requirements with the implementation of the “gender- neutral” Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT).

In this ACFT, women have “a high failure rate,” states the CMR report. The final results will not be released until October 2020 but the report contends that the results will not change “the inevitable: more female injuries, less-demanding training for men, and overall standards that are ‘equal’ but lower than before.”

“Women are serving with courage as they always have,” said the CMR. “But in two major categories – unequal physical capabilities and sexual misconduct – signs of a failing social experiment are increasingly obvious.”

[SoCal Pubbie]

That may be so, but the IDF has female ground pounders among their ranks, for better or worse.

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2018/0208/Why-mixed-gender-combat-units-are-on-the-rise-in-Israel

This from a month ago!

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Female-combat-soldiers-in-light-infantry-units-to-be-exempt-from-reserves-603959

77% of this combat battalion are female:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion

I am NOT in favor of this but one simply can no longer use the IDF as an example of a military force of all male foot soldiers.

[familyop]

Israeli women’s combat roles exaggerated, military traditionalists say
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Monday, May 25, 2015
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/25/womens-combat-roles-in-israel-defense-forces-exagg/

[familyop]

Study Finds Women Don’t Belong in Combat
New book shows women in combat suffer much more serious non-combat injuries, alleges IDF cover-up.
Gil Ronen, 11/06/14 14:46
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181604

[SoCal Pubbie]

I understand that the IDF brass doesn’t want this. It’s being forced on them by liberals in the Knesset. Nonetheless it’s happening.

“Caracal Battalion engaged in combat on September 21, 2012 on the Egyptian border, following the infiltration of a group of terrorists. Responding to a radio report of the attack, in a fire-fight a female Caracal infantry soldier killed a terrorist, who was wearing a Suicide Belt.[5]

In October 2014, a jeep of the battalion was attacked by militants from the Egyptian border with gunfire and an anti-tank missile. Two soldiers were injured. One of the injured, female officer, Captain Or Ben-Yehuda, nonetheless dismounted from the jeep and returned fire killing one militant in the fire-fight.[6]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion

[Stevenfo]

I see many female airman at my local AFB that have big rear ends or thunder thighs. There is no way they could pass a legitimate fitness test. I don’t know how they get past the recruiter.

[familyop]

"77% of this combat battalion are female:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracal_Battalion"

Yes, but feminist propagandists do deceive. On the Caracal,...

Israeli women’s combat roles exaggerated, military traditionalists say
The Washington Times
By Rowan Scarborough
May 25, 2015
[Excerpt:]
"Nor are they in front-line combat brigades mobilized to engage in direct heavy combat. In the infantry, virtually all of Israel’s female combat soldiers are confined to two light battalions — the Caracal and the Lions of Jordan — which are assigned to guard the borders with Egypt and Jordan, the only Arab countries that have peace treaties with Israel."

[SoCal Pubbie]

I guess you’re choosing truth over facts.

“Caracal Battalion engaged in combat on September 21, 2012 on the Egyptian border, following the infiltration of a group of terrorists. Responding to a radio report of the attack, in a fire-fight a female Caracal infantry soldier killed a terrorist, who was wearing a Suicide Belt.[5]

In October 2014, a jeep of the battalion was attacked by militants from the Egyptian border with gunfire and an anti-tank missile. Two soldiers were injured. One of the injured, female officer, Captain Or Ben-Yehuda, nonetheless dismounted from the jeep and returned fire killing one militant in the fire-fight.[6]”

[jimfree]

16 percent pass is good news for everyone.

[familyop]

"Caracal Battalion engaged in combat on September 21, 2012 on the Egyptian border, following the infiltration of a group of terrorists. Responding to a radio report of the attack, in a fire-fight a female Caracal infantry soldier killed a terrorist, who was wearing a Suicide Belt.[5]"

That's good. Women should be trained to defend themselves.

Pregnant Florida mom uses AR-15 to kill home intruder
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3791291/posts

But going on combat patrols to eventually be ambushed by real, well trained enemy infantry groups is another matter. Our Army and other nation's armies are playing shell games to keep that from happening while the commie media company girls and a few misfit, lilting, hippie-at-heart former military officers cluck, "Women in combat!"

[SoCal Pubbie]

Your article is FOUR years old!

Women petition High Court for the right to serve as tank crew in IDF

https://www.timesofisrael.com/women-petition-high-court-for-the-right-to-serve-as-tank-crew-in-idf/

After tanks, IDF now trying out women in combat roles on navy warships

https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-tanks-idf-now-trying-out-women-in-combat-roles-on-navy-warships/

[SoCal Pubbie]

Of course they’re playing shell games! All this shit will end when the bullets and bombs really start flying.

The point is that the IDF does not exclude females from combat. Period.

[Chainmail]

It’s worth a lot, thank you.

Semper Fi

[familyop]

"The point is that the IDF does not exclude females from combat. Period."

Again, notice the assignment of the Caracal. That's an exclusion. That's part of the shell game for avoiding unnecessary casualties or defeats. Our U.S. forces play the game, too. We've done the same with homosexuals in order to avoid demoralization and disasters.

[Ancesthntr]

“No kidding. If we were ever able to field a battalion of 90lbs Weinstein victims, we would be unstoppable!”
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Only for about one week out of 4. Then, even special forces around the world would quake in their boots.

[Hulka]

WSO in backseat (Lieutenant Matthew Klemish) ejected and survived, backseat most always goes first because you don’t want the frontseater’s ejection seat rockets frying the back-seater.

(https://fighterjetsworld.com/air/a-tribute-to-lt-kara-spears-hultgreen-first-female-naval-aviator-died-in-f-14-tomcat-crash/2937/)

[Garvin]

Report: 84% of Army Women Not Fit for Combat, fixed it.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I'm not sure what your point is. I have shown that the official policy of the Israeli government and the IDF is that females are eligible for combat roles. I have shown that there are coed infantry units in the IDF. Currently, there are three of them. Yes, they are basically stationary defense battalions but that's like saying a combat unit of our National Guard is not a combat unit. The Caracal has engaged in combat. Arab forces are not going to hold back if their plans are to strike where the Caracal is stationed.

Is the IDF dragging its feet to meet the demands of feminists screaming for equality? Yes they are. Is it accurate to say the IDF used to have women in combat roles but not longer do because it didn't work out? No, it is not.

[PIF]

See all the links below refuting wiki.

[familyop]

"Yes, they are basically stationary defense battalions but that's like saying a combat unit of our National Guard is not a combat unit."

Not long ago, a buddy of mine was removing IEDs to keep regular infantry and others safer in Afghanistan. His vehicle was hit by an IED while moving, and he received head injuries from that. He was in the Guard, and there were no women in the platoons of his unit.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Not long ago, I had pizza for dinner. See, I can offer meaningless posts too!