Posted on 07/28/2018 4:18:24 PM PDT by pboyington
Meet the Army of 2018, where men are women, women are men, Mommies are Rangers and breast milk is served on tap in the First Sergeant’s lactation station.
In order for the complete and final unraveling of the Army’s fighting spirit and combat power to occur, the concept of gender neutrality has to be served up on a platter to the young, gullible Millennial masses and shoved down the throats of the last breed of hardass old school holdouts who are 60 days and wake up away from escaping from an organization they have seen go from the Dirty Dozen to Romper Room in just two decades.
In an Army, where we have witnessed cadets parading around in high heels, grunts from the Big Red One (a unit that landed on Omaha Beach) don pregnancy simulators, generals tell us that pregnancies don’t affect combat readiness, and the complete and utter erosion of all standards at the JKF Special Warfare Center and School, comes a new and brilliant idea from the minds of the politically correct martinets and feather merchants who call themselves generals – the GENDER NEUTRAL ARMY COMBAT FITNESS TEST.
As part of the Army’s ongoing Maoist feminist revolution, the very idea that men and women are different has to be eradicated. The concept that men are stronger and faster than women has to be obliterated. The Army’s Bright Shining Lie must continue to move forward; that massive Pinocchio that one, women are meeting the same physical standards in the combat arms as men and two, that they are the same physically as men.
Allow me to let you in on a dirty little secret, the physical standards in the combat arms are disappearing faster than dust in the wind. To this date, the Army has now graduated a dozen women from Ranger School, yet refuses to release any of their records to enquiring members of Congress. The stories of special treatment for women at Benning range from pre, pre, pre Ranger training to dieticians, showers every three days for the ladies and endless chances to pass patrols and events. Then there’s Smoke Bomb Hill, down at Bragg, where the senior cadre in Special Forces are firing so much smoke that they can’t find the mirrors they’re using to distort the truth. And, the truth is that there are apparently no physical standards left at Bragg for those at the Special Forces Qualification or Q Course. In a nutshell, your 100 year old great grandma could earn a Green Beret now.
The standards have been dropped or disappeared completely for one simple fact – women cannot meet the standards. And, women must be integrated into the combat arms because the Army’s leaders have decided that diversity is more important than winning wars.
Which, brings us back to the Army’s new PT test. The Pentagon Perfumed Princes and Princesses have informed the world that the days where troopers had to crank out standard push ups and sit ups is as passe as ‘Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em,’ running in boots, shining those boots, stripper night at Graf and carrier landings in the O Club ballroom.
In an Army with 170,000 females something had to be done. Enter the Gender Neutral PT Test. There will no longer be different standards for men and women, because there are no differences in men and women our dear leaders tell us. The Army has also stated that there are no means of evaluation/scoring established yet.
Hmm…
Everyone gets a trophy!
By October 2020, the new test, dubbed the Army Combat Fitness Test, will replace the three-event Army Physical Fitness Test, which was used for nearly four decades, said Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, the chief of the Army’s Center for Initial Military Training at Fort Eustis in Virginia. By that time, soldiers across the force will have to pass the new test twice a year to remain in the service.
You remember General Frost, he was the guy who wanted to enlist self-cutters and bi-polar wack jobs before he was sabot’d by General Milley.
The new test consists of six different events, all designed apparently to be both age gender neutral, because after all a battlefield is age and gender neutral. Who hasn’t heard about the senior citizen females who stormed the ash-laden hills of Iwo Jima?
Good God…
The events are:
Strength deadlift: Soldiers will perform three repetitions of deadlift at the heaviest weight they are capable of between 120 and 420 pounds. The deadlift replicates picking up heavy equipment or a wounded comrade in combat.
Well, I for one, would definitely want a 95lb female dragging me to safety in combat. No doubt the Army will be hiding the deadlift stats, just like they destroyed the Ranger School records.
Standing power throw: Soldiers will throw a 10-pound medicine ball backward as far as they can. The exercise tests muscular explosive power, replicating aiding a fellow soldier over an obstacle or moving rapidly across uneven terrain.
Hand-release push-up: Soldiers will perform as many hand-release push-ups as possible in two minutes. In a hand-release push-up, soldiers lift their hands and arms from the ground at the bottom of the push-up.
The hand release pushup allows the person cranking out the pushups to rest for a moment, when you come to a complete stop. It is a favorite among the soccer mom cross fit community and therefore loved by the Army’s leaders.
Sprint, drag, carry: Soldiers will twice sprint up and down a 25-meter lane, drag a 90-pound sled up and down the lane, and carry two 40-pound kettlebell weights up and down the lane. The exercises are meant to simulate pulling a soldier to safety, moving quickly to cover or carrying gear.
Leg tuck: Hanging from a pull-up bar, soldiers will lift their legs up and down touching their knees or thighs to their elbows as many times as possible during two minutes. The exercise strengthens core muscles, requiring more strength than traditional sit-ups.
Two-mile run: Soldiers will complete the test with a two-mile run, as they must in the APFT. However, Frost said, soldiers will have only five minutes of rest between the leg tuck and the run, which will likely slow their times by 45 seconds to two minutes compared to the current test.
According to the Army, the new gender neutral test will help alleviate negative attitudes towards women serving in the combat arms.
The Left, and I would include most of the military’s leaders in that group seems to forget one simple point – you can’t change nature, no matter how many Power Point presentations you do and no matter how many times you drop or erase standards. The new gender neutral test, will show, like the old PT test that women do not have the same physical strength as men, nor do they have the same aerobic capacity.
War is about operational tempo. It’s about inflicting death on your enemy faster and more violently than the other guy; and yes, we will be fighting men. No matter what the social engineers say or do, they cannot answer one simple question: how does having women in the combat arms increase a unit’s operational tempo?
Having gender neutral tests won’t do anything for the Army except propagate the lie.
And, that’s what it all is, a Bright, Shining Lie…
First Sergeants have a lactation station now? I should have stayed in...
What happened to killing people and breaking things?
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I sure there are some biggums there!
I never thought about it but I guess you could say I was pre-Power Point. I was old school, part of a long line of “overhead projector” warriors that had been fighting on every sea and continent since WWII.
Overhead projectors were introduced into U.S. military training during World War II. After the war they were used at schools like the U.S. Military Academy.[9] Overhead projectors were used early on for police work with a cellophane roll over a 9-inch stage, allowing facial characteristics to be rolled across the stage.[citation needed] As the demand for projectors grew, Buhl Industries was founded in 1953, and became the leading US contributor for several optical refinements for the overhead projector and its projection lens
Oorah!!! Get Some!!!
We are going to have to survive a (nother) war to end all wars, with the same good men and their families somehow managing to pull the survivors through it.
And all this breast and poozie business and the equality of all is going to be thrown into the mass graveyards along with most of all the wretchedness of culture we have seen take root in the past several years.
We are now the self-neutered and -blinded great nation of the world and we are heading for a mortal surprise.
Looks to me as if this new test is harder than the current one. By definition, a gender neutral test means that men and women have to meet the same standard to pass, no matter their age. Until we know the time and repetition standards, it might keep weaker people out.
This social engineering, politically correct bull crap is another example of Obama’s bleeding America to death with a thousand cuts.
“Looks to me as if this new test is harder than the current one. “
Correct.
However, the authors characterizations stirred emotion in the posters and it causes them to look stupid to any outside observer.
Mad Dog Mattis was going to be the savior of the military. In fact he is the worst Sec Def since Macnamara maybe even worse since Mac did not change the core of the military. Mad Dog is a running bad, very bad joke to those of us who have retired and are watching on the sidelines. This military is full still of Obama Generals and Admirals who couldnt care less about country or fighting ability, only their own sorry butts and their own sorry careers. And still Trump thinks throwing money at the military will fix it.
The new test is a lot more equipment intensive. Each company is going to have to have deadweight, medicine balls, chin up bars 90 lb. Sleds and kettleballs. The current pt test is limited only by the number of available graders. The new test will be limited by the number of sets of equipment, which will of course, have to be stored and accounted for, and packed up if the unit is deploying for any length of time. Without a ridiculous amount of equipment meant to be used twice a year, it’s going to take two days to administer a PT test to a company sized unit.
Plus this is the same Army that was virtually forced to remove Communist Lieutenant who they let graduate from West Point and lead soldiers even though he was widely known as a communist in both places. Had he been a Muslim communist, he would still be on active duty.
I came in when there were still manual stenciling machines to produce training schedules.
The first copier I ever used was at a Brigade HQS. It was the size of a small house.
I remember our first IBM selectric typewriter arriving in the orderly room. Disposition Forms were the standard for correspondence, using carbon paper for copies.
Back when 1SGs still had to produce daily Company Morning Reports before the PACs were formed at Bn Level and SIDPERs was still a concept.
Back when pulling Company Pay Officer on pay day complete with loaded .45 was still a thing.
Finally had rudimentary word processors (Wangs) and databases for personnel records in the late eighties.
Started using military e-mail and PowerPoint in the mid nineties.
Saw a lot of technology change in 25 years.
Oh yeah, and I became a master at making overhead slides for training classes. Trainers at Ft Benning actually went to school to become platform instructors and overhead slide gurus.
As far as gender issues, that is not a SECDEF issue. He can make recommendations, but it is Congress who needs to act, and that isn't going to happen when a sick, biblically illiterate citizenry keep voting idiots into office. So it is the whole nation's fault. Not one man.
When I was an ROTC cadet in the late 80s, our cadre told us as new platoon leaders our most important administrative tool would be our skilcraft pens. I remember the day as platoon leader and company training officer, that our first PC showed up in the company orderly room, a 286 or 386 IIRC. It was at that time I noted a fundamental change in the officer corps. Up until that point, there was an over-arching concept called, “leadership,” and one skill under that umbrella was management. With widespread automated data processing, that became inverted and the officer corps appeared to stress management as the overarching umbrella, under which leadership became a subordinate skill. I guess leadership is harder to quantify and evaluate (unless you’re one of the ones being led.)
That’s a great observation that I witnessed as well.
What I notice is that it will be hard to train to. Not many people have access to 90 lb sleds. Not sure how you practice throwing a 10 lb ball behind you other than getting a 10 lb ball and throwing it behind you.
Pull-ups, pushups, sit ups and jogging - that is stuff I can practice and know how I’m progressing.
The current goal is to complete the entire test in 50 minutes, from start to finish. With a range of 3 to 5 minutes rest between events, except the last one, which is I believe 10 minutes before the run.
I am currently in, and I fail to see how this can be logistically executed, at least compared to the current APFT.
This next year is supposed to be where they develop the point scale for units. The idea is that either by MOS or unit type, different scores will be the minimum.
Instead of having two different scales for gender, there is suggested to be one. Speculation is that minimum points by gender MAY be different. But the other theory is how the point scale will pan out, is that females are usually in support units and the such and the minimum standards in those will be more in-line with what is achievable by women, so men may have a much easier time passing in such a unit. Whereas a combat unit, the minimum will be much higher, therefore if a female can score high enough on the same scale, then “Ranger up”.
Not Safe For Work, but always great to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzbr6fPDmkE&index=1&list=PL73E69589A2023DE8
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