>>Ranger Assessment Phase •During induction to the school, candidates must pass a physical exam, typically held over five days. Candidates must be able to do at least 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups, run 5 miles in no more than 40 minutes, six chin-ups, march 12 miles and pass day and night navigation tests.<<
Except for the night navigation, that’s SOP for Parris Island. BTW, does all this mean that boot camp is going to be coed? Horrors! BAMs and TURDs are a bad mix.
Some of the Army’s Basic Training is coed. My son went to Basic at Fort Benning Georgia and that is all infantry Basic, so there were no women in his Basic training. My son’s friend, though, went to Basic for the Army at Fort Jackson (North or South Carolina, I think) and his Basic had women in it.
The Marines, I believe are the only Armed forces unit that completely separates out the men from training with the women. Hopefully they can continue with that.
As a side note, my son was at the range a few weeks ago (earning his expert rifleman’s qualification) and there were women at the range. Some of them could not even get 10 shots out of 40 to hit a target! Some needed to shown how to use their optics. Overall, he was pretty blown away at how bad many of them were.
Now, that’s not all to be put onto the women. Somewhere the Army dropped the ball or they just really don’t think these women need to be able to use a rifle accurately.