Looks like the Marine Corps is relaxing the standards for female soldiers. NPR reported:
Starting Jan. 1, every woman in the Marines Corps was supposed to meet a new physical standard by performing three pullups. But that has been put off.
The Marine Corps announced it quietly. There was no news conference — just a notice on its social media sites and an item on its own TV show, The Corps Report.
Lance Cpl. Ally Beiswanger explained that the pullup test had been put off until sometime next year, to gather more data and "ensure all female Marines are given the best opportunity to succeed."
So far, female Marines are not succeeding. Fifty-five percent of female recruits tested at the end of boot camp were doing fewer than three pullups; only 1 percent of male recruits failed the test.
The three pullups is already the minimum required for all male Marines. Now the Marine Corps has postponed the plan, and that's raising questions about whether women have the physical strength to handle ground combat, which they'll be allowed to do beginning in 2016.
Marine officers would not talk to NPR on tape. They said they delayed the pullup requirement to avoid losing not only recruits but also current female Marines who can't pass the test.
The Marine Corps has been using it to test upper body strength for men for more than 40 years. And that upper body strength, they say, is necessary to serve in ground combat: to pull yourself out of a canal in Afghanistan, to climb over a mud wall, to carry an ammunition box. (KF Note: Or carry your injured buddy to safety during battle, not that that means anything... until is your ass that's injured.)
For years, female Marines have had to meet a different standard — an exercise called the "flexed arm hang" (holding one's chin above the pullup bar for at least 15 seconds).
But beginning in 2016, women in the Marine Corps and Army will be allowed to serve in infantry, armor and artillery units. And they'll need to be strong enough to climb those mud walls and carry ammunition..... Rest of article
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I heard it said many times, that the reason the marines rode around on the ships with the navy was because the sailors needed someone to dance with at sea?
After the blood and deaths President Epic Failure will be more reviled than Chamberlain. We can only hope he'll pass just as quickly.
The same one who referred to 'The Marine Corpse'?
Sheesh. The men who cleared Fallujah are of the same type of took Iwo Jima.
Ain't nobody weakening what these men are. Let's take a sober, objective view of what these men do. People wishing ill on the command structure are the real enemy.
The enemy is Barack Hussein Obama.
The definitive work on Fallujah--The City of Mosques--is by American unembedded journalist, Dahr Jamail. Jamail was inside the battle zone during the siege of Fallujah. Double-tapping wounded Iraqis become Marine Corps protocol for dealing with wounded POW.
His uncensored dispatches from Fallujah were posted via the antiwar.co website.
... President Epic Failure will be more reviled than Chamberlain....
The untold story behind Neville Chamberlain's decision to cede parts of Czecholovakia to Germany in order to avoid war with Germany in 1938. And the lighter, comedic side of Adolph Hitler and his Berlin neighbors, Rose and Ernie Goldstein upon meeting Chamberlain.
Mr. Serling is in the room.
Mr. Serling is in the room.
Yes, and we can see all of Rod's great work beginning New Year's Eve on SyFy's Twilight Zone Marathon.
The Burgess Meredith episode sticks in my mind.
Women having different standards for physical fitness and strength is fine as long as the standards are sufficient for them to do the job. As a former Army company commander I can tell you first hand that having women in the unit is different, and in some ways more difficult, than having an all male unit. No woman should be in a unit of any kind if her presence will interfere with the mission the unit is designed to accomplish, even if she can do thirty pull ups.
Fuck you, AMOS (CMC)!!! He has successfully pussified the Corps. Women have NO business on the battlefield and 0311's, 31's, and 41's are the one's that have to deal with this crap. I feel terrible for Marines at the Company level that have to go to war with people that they cannot trust. It's not that women shouldn't be allowed to do the job, it's that their bodies are not equipped to handle the stress of combat.
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