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Oh bullcrap....they have lowered standards for women across the boards from the academies all the way up thru the military because it was forced on them by PC what if folks like you. Most of the REMF perfumed princes play along to further their careers.

They don't need women in the academies or frontlines or on ships. They are there as a social experiment that is pure damaging indulgence.

Again.

As Travis McGee said last week, let this war turn into a series of 2 or 3 Blackhawk Down scenarios coming down the pike weekly for a while in an immediate war for survival and we'll see how this expereiment holds.

"Any nation that will send it's mothers and daughters to die in combat while fat and lazy men in college lie around smoking dope and watching MTV....doesn't deserve to survive.

What does "lower standards" really mean? I think there is a case to be made for adaptability. We need people of all kinds of talents in the military. Not just people who can do x number of situps and run 20 miles with a 60lb. pack. That's only part of the equation.

Let me ask you this, if the military wanted to sign up a male volunteer who was a brilliant computure code breaker who's talents they could use in intelligence work to find enemy communications .... would they be smart to turn him away if he couldn't do the required number of pushups? I really doubt that they ever have done that. (Look at the Radar O'Reilly type character in the military). There have always been all types of males, not just the Rambo-types in the military.

The military will have to adapt to attract the best and the brightest. How many chin-ups a person can do cannot be the only criteria or we will lose some serious talents. I seriously doubt if our military is so stupid that they would turn people away who could be useful. I pray we're not that stupid.

I don't think "standards" should be lowered but we should be careful about the kind of "standards" we want to attract. We have a volunteer military. We need lots of talents. I doubt all military personell (for example doctors and nurses) can meet the same physical "standards" as combat personnel.