Army ‘has dropped fitness standards to allow more women to join’
Fitness standards for British Army recruits including men have been reduced so that more women can join and equality targets can be met, it has been claimed.
By John-Paul Ford Rojas
10:42AM GMT 24 Jan 2013
Major Judith Webb, the first woman to lead an all-male field force in the Army, warned that standards would deteriorate further if the UK followed America in allowing women soldiers to fight on the front line.
She said women should not be given roles in infantry units where they would be expected to “close with and kill the enemy at close quarters”.
Hundreds of thousands of women won’t volunteer to go. You’ll have to Draft them.
Nobody cares what you think, Juan. Disappear.
McCain knows nothing of ground combat.
Vietnam, ‘68-69.
The problem is the standards and the inevitable lowering of them.
The daughter of a friend who was in the Marines for a few years complained about the lower standards imposed on female recruits. She said it would have felt better to fail honestly than to get by and pass all the tests through easier standards.
How can women complete Ranger and Special Forces Training unless standards for them are reduced? Maybe a couple might make it through now and then, but realistically, it wont happen unless they have different or relaxed standards. When the Army decided to admit women to the Military Academy, they said the standards wouldn’t change. Well guess what, the standards for the admission Physical Fitness Tests and the standards while attending did change (Lowered).
Compare/contrast to nearly every single fire department and police department in America in lowering their physical standards so that more women could “make it”
Sometimes I think one of the biggest problems this country faces is the stupidity that comes from long-term success. We’ve had prosperity and relative miltary dominance for so long that we’ve forgotten what those things really depend on. In short, blind ideology trumps reason and common sense.
A good cure for that is getting your a$$ handed to you in a big way. The only problem is that, if it happens, you need time to recover and learn from your mistakes. There are so many moonbats in the country now that I fear that even if we have one of those incidents, we’ll draw exactly the wrong conclusions.
All I keep thinking of is divisions of American women facing off against Panzer divisions, The Waffen SS and the Japanese Sendai division. It’s just the first thing that comes to mind for some reason.
Lower the standards and re-institute the draft for women only for the next 40 years, you know we need to play “catch up” I say we draft any women and weak kneed male in any women’s studies class and send them over to Afghanistan to replace all our troops there.
Let them see what a real “Male Dominated Society” looks like and when the weak kneed wildebeest beta males are beheaded and the hippie chicks are put in burquas and raped daily they will learn that America isn’t such a bad place after all.
McCain, as always, is on the wrong side of the issue.
McCain is an idiot.
Before there were watered down for women, the first time!
And, how about making ALL women eligible for combat, and NOT at THEIR CHOICE!?!?!?!
Get your daughter out there on the front line as an example of your BRILLIANT thinking.
The standard for combat always stays high. "May the best man win."
The next 'man' we fight may not be cave dwelling throwbacks, but trained divisions of infantry and armor, backed by a fleet of mass produced, missile-armed drones.
They won't be impressed by how egalitarian our military is. Not one bit.
The standard for combat always stays high. "May the best man win."
The next 'man' we fight may not be cave dwelling throwbacks, but trained divisions of infantry and armor, backed by a fleet of mass produced, missile-armed drones.
They won't be impressed by how egalitarian our military is. Not one bit.