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Report: 84% of Women Fail New Army Combat Fitness Test
CNSNews ^ | November 8, 2019 | Kharen Martinez Murcia

Posted on 11/08/2019 11:41:41 AM PST by jazusamo

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To: ConjunctionJunction

Might be interesting to break the numbers down purely by height, weight, BMI, etc _then_ contrast which of two, er, groups tend to split in correlation to those values vs pass/fail rates.


21 posted on 11/08/2019 11:59:43 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: dynachrome

My son talked about this a while back and said this is the new test.

There is supposedly 3 levels and to go into combat units they have to pass the top level.

He told me then that the fail rate for women would be high for the top level.


22 posted on 11/08/2019 12:00:07 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

The Army Combat Fitness Test is obviously sexist, and must be changed.

(I was going to add the /s tag, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the test is “modified” to “fix” this problem.)


23 posted on 11/08/2019 12:00:27 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

No kidding. If we were ever able to field a battalion of 90lbs Weinstein victims, we would be unstoppable!


24 posted on 11/08/2019 12:00:33 PM PST by The Toll
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To: jazusamo

It’s obvious that the New Army Combat Fitness Test is sexist and misogynist and must be replaced. It’s the diversity and inclusiveness of an army that ensure its success, not outdated ideas like combat readiness.


25 posted on 11/08/2019 12:00:41 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: dynachrome

Yes there is lower standards for women. I wonder if a man who is having issues passing, could just state they are woman to pass with a higher score. The PT score is connected to your promotion points.


26 posted on 11/08/2019 12:00:45 PM PST by DEPcom
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To: Cowboy Bob

or ANY film with a woman in it these days- 110 lb women kicking the crap out of 5 250 lb weight lifters- somehow their ‘girlie punches’ are able to render men unconscious with a single hit-


27 posted on 11/08/2019 12:00:49 PM PST by Bob434
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To: jazusamo
Light Infantry Survival test in the 60's.

18 years old. 150 lbs wringing wet with a 60lb combat ready ruck with full patrol loadout, 25lb prc25 radio with spare battery and accessories. Assign them to an air mobile outfit. Use them in an air mobile mission eagle flight, have the huey hover 4ft above the hot LZ in a flooded rice paddy and have the troop jump to the ground prepared to move out. Happy Veterans Day vets


28 posted on 11/08/2019 12:02:51 PM PST by redcatcherb412
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To: jazusamo
"84% of Women Fail New Army Combat Fitness Test"

Next headline will be:

"100% of New Army Combat Fitness Test Becomes Old Army Combat Fitness Test"

29 posted on 11/08/2019 12:03:01 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: jazusamo

Thanks.


30 posted on 11/08/2019 12:08:56 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: PGR88

“There will probably come a time when lots of dead bodies tell them they need to adjust their thinking”

When China starts WWIII with the US down the road, gender , alphabet diversity and feminist garbage will be gone the first day. Too bad we will probably get our butts kicked.


31 posted on 11/08/2019 12:10:04 PM PST by setter
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To: DEPcom

“could just state they are woman to pass “

It would not surprise me.


32 posted on 11/08/2019 12:10:41 PM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: jazusamo

While a real life circus, left wing PC gender neutrality is now demanding a “major lowering” of the bar, and will never be eliminated until all the arrogant left retards responsible, are themselves eliminated.

I used to think all it would take is the next world war and hundreds of thousands of dead to get these fools straitened out. Now, it is clear these narcissistic retard psycos are too far mentally gone!

They would gorge themselves on our own dead young men, lost to their anti-God/anti-natural law, before admitting they were wrong.

Maybe this is what some of them really want, since our military is widely believed by the anti-American left, as an impediment to their global Marxist goal of enslaving the once free U.S.

So, unfortunately, this level of anti-nature, and narcissism, will need to lose many millions of dead, and their own, because of their pride, and will have to be conquered and enlaved.

By then, they will not have a way to fight their way out of total slavery.

These people are truly morally sick and blind, and historically illiterate.


33 posted on 11/08/2019 12:10:50 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: PGR88

The current test requires no equipment other than a stopwatch and an odometer I guess to measure the run, the new test requires a bunch of equipment to perform...at least according to my sons in the Army. They said it will takes years to roll out to all the Army to implement.

I thought the new test was designed to let women pass? That was my understanding....


34 posted on 11/08/2019 12:12:44 PM PST by Geoffrey
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To: Leaning Right

.....this article is a blinding flash of the obvious.... gee; I wonder how many women infantry troops pass this or similar Combat Fitness [sic] Test in China’s Peoples’ Liberation Army...?? oh, wait.... the only PLA troops I have ever seen on the evening teevee news appear to be young, very fit, grim-faced males who look like they could kick azz and take names at a moment’s notice....!!


35 posted on 11/08/2019 12:14:21 PM PST by TokarevM57
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To: BBQToadRibs

I’ve dated two women who were ex army. An officer and an enlisted.

On more than one occasion, they each laughingly recalled stories of how they couldn’t do basic infantry training tasks, and were constantly looked after and assisted by the male soldiers.

I did ask each if they thought women should be in the army, and they were both very adamantly in favor it, despite having just relayed stories of why they shouldn’t be.


36 posted on 11/08/2019 12:14:42 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: ctdonath2

“What % of men fail?”

What...fail the women’s combat fitness test...or the men’s combat fitness test...?


37 posted on 11/08/2019 12:15:07 PM PST by moovova
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To: jazusamo
“ ... signs of a failing social experiment are increasingly obvious.”

That’s interesting ... because this is the first thing that crosses my mind when I encounter almost any government-run operation in the course of my daily life.

38 posted on 11/08/2019 12:16:24 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: PGR88
We talked about this crap coming in 1982 when (overriding Reagan's veto) the services budgeted to begin replacing open barracks with dormitory style barracks. That was an unnecessary expense. We didn't spend that much time in garrison anyway. The only reason to build expensive to build and maintain dormitories was to attract people who were more focused on their comforts than on the mission or unit cohesion.

The pay raises which came later caused people to be more likely to reenlist which (while it sounds good to some people) actually reduced the available reserve pool and the higher rate of pensions dragged the budget down trading one time training costs for pension costs which go on for years.

Most of us understood that the service does not owe you a pension and that if that is the reason you are there you are there for the wrong reason.

Get in. Serve a term or so to pay the cost of freedom.

Now here we are with fewer of the populace trained for war than there should be, and facing a coup.

I am sure that is part of why Reagan vetoed those budgets...and part of why Congress overrode his vetoes.

But then, I have been saying this for nearly forty years.

39 posted on 11/08/2019 12:19:02 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: jazusamo

So I guess that this is a call to lower the standards, right?


40 posted on 11/08/2019 12:20:20 PM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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