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"...During an after-discussion , those who spoke with knowledgeable sources made the point that it was entirely possible that a qualified woman candidate would be able to make it through without changing and lowering the standards applied to all equally..."

That "passing" would be a snapshot in time, and the woman would have be trained to an extreme peak to pass if standards were not lowered. The problem for women is that they don't have naturally produced steroids like men do that give them an innate advantage...testosterone.

Men can reach a physical peak and stay there far longer then women can with less strenuous training. As soon as a woman stops intense training, her conditioning will fall off faster than a man's does, so she would have to keep exercising at a much higher level to keep her anywhere near the bottom level of physical fitness held by the bottom tier of men in Special Forces.

This is not a knock on women, it is a statement of fact.

It is unrealistic and dangerous to place an expectation that women will be able to do this without lowering of standards, and the lowering of standards is inherently dangerous.