Posted on 10/06/2015 8:48:39 AM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) — The U.S. Marine Corps has unveiled new physical standards that all recruits — male and female — must meet to qualify for 29 of the branch’s jobs.
The new gender-neutral standards could make it a lot harder for boot camp recruits and Officer Candidates to obtrain certain positions, according to the Marine Corps Times. These fields include infantry, combat engineering, tanks and amphibious assault vehicles, close-air support, and ground ordnance.
One of the standards all recruits must meet is being able to evacuate a casualty, and conduct an MK19 grenade launcher lift. Most posts in the Marine Corps might have differing qualifications. The Daily Caller reports the standards arrived a day before the deadline for U.S. military officials to submit an exemption request for keeping combat roles open only to men.
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MK19 , When a Hallmark card just won’t do.
A liberal. But we repeat ourselves.
What does the MK-19 weigh?
It is discrimination to only force males to have to go into combat and die.
There has not been a draft in the United States for more than forty years.
Yup, draft.
“more diverse force is a stronger force.”
“Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap. The bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about individuality for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know anything more about real battle than they do about fornicating.”
General George S. Patton
The enemy islamist supposed CIC did that only to humiliate that Marine and the Corps in general.
Here are the actual requirements:
http://ec.militarytimes.com/static/pdfs/73173524-Standards-table-2015.pdf
I’m looking closely at what I know - Tank Crewman (1812 MOS):
- Lift 3 tank batteries...these are car batteries. If you can’t lift this, you have no business being in the military. And btw, it takes 6, so why only test ability to lift 3?
- Open and secure tank hatch...well good grief, I hope this one isn’t controversial. Yes, possessing enough strength to open the hatch seems important. But it doesn’t take too much strength - I never knew anyone who had trouble with it.
- Tank casualty evacuation. Again, I hope this isn’t controversial. Actually takes a lot of strength - most women could not do this.
- Towbar lift. Ahhh...again if you can’t do that, steer clear of the military. Or stand on the side of the road and hike your skirt up your leg to flag another crew down.
- Load 120mm round. As a cadet, I witnessed women attempt this with a 105mm round. Most could eventually do it, but it is a timed event. Now this this gets into an existential discussion of being a tanker. I don’t remember what the time limit was...probably around 7 seconds...but I would never have put up with a loader who took that long. Very few women could do it as rapidly as a man - and survival depends on this.
Anyway, with the exception of pulling an injured crewmember out of the tank, most of these are easy (to the point of being absurd). If the marines are being put in a position where they have to point out that being able to open the hatch should be a requirement, we are in trouble.
My old tank unit was forced to leave its tanks in the motor pool at Fort Riley, and become dismounted infantry crawling up and down the mountains of Afghanistan. I wonder if a partially female unit would have been able to be that flexible.
Gee, I can’t imagine how Russia is able to do in Syria what the USA is finding difficult these days. /s
Seriously, the designed crippling of America continues.
I know a few people who got caught up in Stop Loss who would argue semantics.
Comrades! Ambitious Obama political commissars/Junior Birdmen will be on-the-spot to make sure that wymen receive affirmative assistance in passing these sexually biased examinations.
Then their glowing reviews of the penis-challenged will be posted here assuring us that, like Rangers, all Marines are equal—but some are more equal than others. From each according to their abilities, comrades!
Around 77.5 lbs.
I couldn’t feel more safe than with a brigade of lesbos with synchronized pms leading the charge
I don’t know what I did with it or I’d post it.. But I have a pic of an older Army generator from our HHT unit, that gives manpower lift requirements. Printed on top, it says something like “250lbs 6 Man Lift - 8 Female”.
I wonder which 120mm round they have to lift? There’s as much as 15lb difference between the lightest and heaviest types of rounds. Ex the M829 armor-piercing sabot round is 41 pounds, while the M829A3 sabot is 56lb (uses a DU sabot instead of aluminum).
Active Duty ping.
Good point - I think the dummy rounds used for this test are 52 lb HEAT simulated. I’ve never lifted a DU round, since I was never in combat....but that extra weight would surprise people for sure.
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