The US Air Force is removing height restrictions for pilots, which will allow more women to serve

CNN ^ | May 25, 2020 | Harmeet Kaur

[ConservativeStatement]

(CNN) — The US Air Force has removed its minimum height requirements for prospective pilots, doing away with a barrier that had disadvantaged women.

Previously, aspiring Air Force pilots were required to have a standing height of 5'4" to 6'5" and a sitting height of 34 to 40 inches. Applicants shorter than 5'4" or taller than 6'5" had to submit a waiver.

Though most height waivers were approved, the restrictions eliminated about 44% of the US female population ages 20 to 29, according to the Air Force.

[Cyclops08]

Booster seats?

[SuperLuminal]

Poor eyesight or blindness on the list to be eliminated next?

[Cowgirl]

Hopefully they (the women) won’t have to pull-start anything.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Pull start a jet, LOL.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...my first thought was look for a run on old phone books.

[Secret Agent Man]

Nothing good will come of this. Not a damn thing.

[budj]

Ya mean, like???

Space Pilot Biff!

[Leaning Right]

No minimum height requirement for pilots? This is good news for my cat.

[Puppage]

My DI in Air Force boot camp was leaving the AF for the Navy, because his eyesight wasn’t good enough for AF pilot training. The Navy had a lower bar, as it were. This was 1981.

[alstewartfan]

Autopilots are next.

[Puppage]

F’n hysterical!!

[stanne]

What, they just go in and alter all the airplanes? So women can say they’re pilots?

People are not wanting to get into the Air Force?

[TLI]

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[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Why don’t they just say, “Men need not apply.”

“The applicant must have a vagina.”

[pfflier]

DI USAF???

[kjam22]

Phone Books....

[dfwgator]

What, they just go in and alter all the airplanes? So women can say they’re pilots?

[ConservativeStatement]

I recall a radio ad for one of the armed forces (Navy perhaps) a few years ago with a woman saying she was a mother, daughter, sister, etc. but also a service member and how she did “what the men do...” followed by a chorus of voices saying “and sometimes better!” which led into giggles. Such an embarrassment. Luckily, the ad didn’t play too long. Then again, many TV ads seem to mimic that stupidity.

[libertylover]

The seats go up and down.