[RoosterRedux]

Better women than gays.

[RoosterRedux]

I know some Crossfit level women who can more than withstand the rigors of Quantico.

[Vendome]

They’re gonna cook hot meals for our boys?

Awesome...

[x1stcav]

Good luck.

We’re f^ck’t with a ‘T’.

[Secret Agent Man]

no. neither are a good thing.

[grobdriver]

conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat

Are these people series?

THE FITTER THE FRIGGING BETTER!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Camo nail polish?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Let them try again. If they washed out on the FIRST day, there is little chance that they will make it through the entire course.

[ansel12]

The Army is conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat.

Let's see, what will the study find, that we need higher standards, the same standard we use, or that we can get by with a lower standard.

[armydawg505]

I wonder why there is no push to put women in the NFL or MLB? Is it because there are physical differences?

[driftdiver]

I thought they said the standards weren’t going to be lowered?

[vetvetdoug]

The Taliban are waiting. It won’t be pretty.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Will Gunny R. Lee Ermey be preparing the gyrls?

[Old Yeller]

Good if they’re going to be fighting Americans. Bad if they’re going to be fighting America’s enemies.

[Parmy]

Israel tried it years ago and found that having women in combat units reduced unit effectiveness by as high as 40%.

[RginTN]

Did Santangelo not train prior????

[jz638]

There are women who could serve in combat infantry roles and succeed, but thats no reason to open direct combat roles to women. It’s not sexist, its math. I know there are women who could do serve in infantry units so and some who would even thrive. That is not the problem, the problem is that what an average 18 year old male can do, you need to locate a female in top 95th physical percentile. Finding females who are likely candidates for a college scholarship in sports and the fast track for success in life that they should skip college and instead live in the mud for months at a time for a social experiment is even harder.

What you end up with for willing candidates is a handful of college grad marathon runners who would like to punch their social justice ticket to say they did it for womenkind. They may make it through qualification courses, maybe even a deployment in carefully choreographed scenarios with a token number of outside the wire incidents to make everything look legit. Mor likely than not, this type of woman has no intention of living the life for an entire career, like John Kerry, they will get medals and get out, then turn on everyone who was stupid enough to trust them in order to build a political career.

[Gay State Conservative]

The only women who should be placed in the vicinity of combat are physicians and nurses.This,along with perverts being allowed to serve....*CELEBRATED*,in fact...is a signal to our enemies,delivered clearly and deliberately by our Community Organizer-in-Chief,that we're too strong,that we've been the world's bully for too long and,to remedy this,he's taken steps to weaken our Armed Forces.

This worthless piece of excrement doesn't even bother to *try* to hide his contempt for our Armed Forces.

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[Mark17]

The military is taking steps to prepare women for combat roles in 2016.

At first, I thought it said they were preparing women to shoot American civilians.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

"The Marine Corps announced that it would give young female lieutenants who wash out of the grueling Infantry Officer Course a second shot, same as their male counterparts."

Training costs money. They don't just drop people on a whim. I don't know their exact procedures for granting a reevaluation ( second shot ) but I'm pretty sure the trainers had to cover themselves to ten decimal places when deciding not to allow the women another go. Not everyone who wants another chance gets it.

I'm also sure that word may have come down from on high that they didn't want to interfere with their decisions, but if it came down to a flip a coin situation where a woman may or may not get another chance, flip it her favor.