I don’t have an opinion, but I found this:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28561485/
Thanks for posting this. Seems many of the outraged are the ignorant ones.
I was in USMC boot camp in 1977. There was an exercise where you had to jump into the deep end of a pool wearing a heavy backpack. You had to remove your backpack while in the water so it wouldn’t pull you under. IIRC many black recruits struggled with this.