feh...Saw the lede.
Then took my guess as to the source to check.
Bingo.
Ergo, no need to even read the article.
What a time saver.
Going to war isn't about one-upping the next guy. Go on patrol all day with a 100 pound ruck in 110 degree weather day after day and get back to us. I'll bet she doesn't make it two hours on patrol before the guys are going to have to carry her load.
I'd like to see her stand on the edge of the bath tub and pee in the toilet like I can do.
I would not want to serve with or anywhere near this individual. With her, it's about "ME ME ME", not about the mission or the unit. She's trouble. Showoffs (and that's what she is) get themselves killed ... which is bad enough. They get other people killed, too. That's unacceptable.
A total embarrassment of a once great Army. Can anyone imagine her rooting Japs out of caves on Okinawa?
I can prove the opposite from where I'm sitting.
This isn't an academic exercise and when she screws up due to decision making or lack of strength I'm guessing she won't take the blame.
Ass. Press living up to its name.
Eventually a large enough number of women will be killed and maimed and this pc experiment will be closed. It will end sooner if women are compelled to register for selective service and the combat arms become a requirement and not a “career option” for women.
“More than 36 percent of Benning’s women have left — about twice the rate of men. Injuries have sidelined other women who plan to restart the training...While male recruits often get ankle sprains and dislocated shoulders, women are prone to stress fractures in their hips.
Half of the women, Kendrick said, weigh less than 120 pounds (54 kilograms), but all the recruits carry the same 68 pounds (31 kilograms) of gear.”
Now....just how many days, months and years will someone weighing less than 120 lbs stand up to carrying 70 lbs AND MORE regularly? Particularly when WEEKS of training is already causing double the injuries.
“I also wanted to one-up him.”
Have a baby. That’ll show him.
Oh, so men and women are not identical! But I thought they were the same-just different gender assignments! Why are different facilities needed? How can there be “one up” if there are no sexes?
It’s all very confusing, listening to liberals-they are full of contradictions!
Is Kersten meeting the same height, weight & physical fitness standards?
A bad idea all around
Until the women take exactly the same PT test as the men, they are not really competing.
I have seen two women in my life who could take, and pass, the PT test for men of their age group.
I married one of them.
feh...” just because you are a female doesn’t mean you can’t do the same things as a male.”
You mean like hand to hand combat with a knife or carrying your 200 lb teammate off the battlefield on your shoulder?
One-up a man...that is a goal. Let her try to carry a fully armed up wounded man miles to safety.
Preparing the battlefield is going to take on a whole new meaning.
'Kirsten' looks to be about 5'3" to 5'4"...And you'll be carrying more than 68lbs after basic.
“I want to be one of the females to prove to everybody else that just because you’re a female, doesn’t mean you can’t do the same things as a male,”
If women can’t make as movers, doing the same job as men do, they shouldn’t be in combat.
And as a woman myself who’s worked in some physical labor jobs, this narrative pushed by the left (who mostly never pick up anything heavier than a book in their entire work lives) is hurting women. For one thing, it’s given men the idea that we are just like them, we just can’t lift quite as much, when actually we are built differently so we really shouldn’t be doing constant heavy lifting or very heavy lifting that we can barely do. This isn’t to say that women can’t do physical jobs and some pretty heavy regular lifting, but that we still need a little more consideration than just having men lift something that we simply can’t.
I worked not long ago in one of those big multi-national American fast food restaurants, and it’s simply ignoring differences between men and women, and women get the worst for it, getting pressured into lifting things regularly that the men complain even about it. But for a man, if it hurts to lift something, he’s still doing a lot more of it with his arm muscles. I researched this, and men on average tend to have twice the amount of arm muscle and can lift three times as much. When we lift things that are too heavy, things like I said that even men complain about, it’s hitting us differently, in different muscles and our bones.
This company isn’t great about thinking of its workers to begin with. It just switched to a product that uses 60-pound boxes, when of course it’s entirely possible not to have boxes that heavy. The men really complain about those, but sometimes they actually leave those boxes so that women are pressured into moving them short distances. From what I’ve seen, they don’t do that intentionally, but just from not realizing that it’s just not the things that a woman absolutely can’t pick up that are an issue, but also that anything with any heaviness is going to feel heavier to us versus what it feels like to men.
I’ve seen things like this in several jobs now over the years, and I’ve seen how it’s harmed women and have experienced that myself. And so much of it comes down to the left wanting to feel like they’ve left their mark by overturning society wherever they can as much as possible.
Many employers are then eager to follow along.