She may have gotten a great SCORE, but take a look at HOW the PT tests are scored.
A 20 year old guy has to do 71 pushups to get a 100%, while a 51 year old woman just has to do 34 (a 20 yo woman needs 42).
A 20yo guy needs to do a 2 mile run in 13:00, a 51 yo gets 100% with 17:36.
A 20 yo guy is expected to do 3 pull ups. A 20 yo girl is expected to be able to hang from the bar for 15 seconds.
If women were put through the tests to the exact same standards as the men, essentially no women would pass, which is why there are different standards.
......and that's the nut of it right there... cause nobody gets left behind. It isn't that the fat cow can't run. It's an indication that she'd have a hard time humping it for 20 miles or so if she HAD to.
But if she's incapable of going fast enough, then she's a drag on those that can and ALL of them get killed.
Team, Unit, Corps... one Corps, one unit, all brothers...
the weak link gets you dead. that's why you try to get everybody squared away and fighting all as one. Cause you are just a single piece of a entire unit and the weak one will sink the rest. THAT is what combat and war is all about. Finding the weak link and then just destroying everything you can associated with that weakness.
Fat cows and homosexual drama queens like the one that released all the classified documents is just the tip of the iceberg. This is just one more way they socialist/communist/ anti-American quislings are doing in order to destroy our country. Destroy education, destroy the economy, destroy the armed forces and the rest is one strong man/group away from a bloodless coup.
This article is not talking about women in designated combat units, but rather a woman veteran of the US Navy joining the Army and serving as an E-5 paralegal. Women have been doing that sort of work on an emergency basis in uniform since World War II, and on a permanent basis since the late 1940s. She has received combat training to prepare her for things that are unlikely to happen, but the reality of our modern combat situation with no front lines is that if her Army Reserve unit gets activated and deployed, anybody could get attacked at any time, and therefore everybody needs to be prepared.
@ PapaBear: We agree on the scoring of the PT tests. However, note this item from the article: “Coast even amazed herself when she came in second place during the PT test. ‘I am still kind of blown away by that. I even ran faster than all but one female,’ Coast said.”
If the reporter is correct — and she works for Army Public Affairs with her work being reviewed by a retired LTC who serves as her editor so it should be accurate — she's talking about coming in second-place overall on scoring including the men, but second-place in actual speed among the women.
Pretty good, I'd say, for a 51-year-old competing against people who are mostly in their teens or twenties.
I suppose I ought to add that the retired LTC who edited this article, although he's now in Army Public Affairs, retired as an Army infantry officer. His immediate supervisor, the Fort Leonard Wood chief of public affairs, was an Army engineer officer before he retired from active duty. At least one of those two men started his career on the enlisted side of the house before becoming an officer. I know very little about the reporter who wrote the story, except that her position typically gets filled by Army spouses, but I think it's pretty clear both of her bosses know what they're doing in making sure her facts are right.