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Army closes in on its elusive goal of a gender-neutral fitness test
Task & Purpose Today ^ | Apr 25, 2025 | Jeff Schogol

Posted on 04/28/2025 7:10:31 PM PDT by george76

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To: coloradan
All fitness tests are gender-neutral

"Who can pee the farthest?"

Aside from that, you're right!

Regards,

21 posted on 04/28/2025 10:52:02 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: FoxInSocks

“to deadlift at least 140 pounds under the new changes

For an average male, that really is very easy to do.”
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I m 64 and had a heart attack last summer, and I am of slightly below average size, and I could easily do this


22 posted on 04/28/2025 11:52:49 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: george76

Still trying to make the square peg fit into the round hole.


23 posted on 04/29/2025 2:52:11 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: alexander_busek

Just because men might win that competition doesn’t make it not gender neutral, same as for bench press. Firefighters need to be able to carry 200 lb down people flights of stairs, so, that should be the test. Not “if you are a man, 200 lbs, but, if you are a woman, 100 lbs.” Also not “if you’re a scrawny guy, 100 lbs.”


24 posted on 04/29/2025 7:52:58 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: arthurus

I tried to join the military 20 years ago. I thought men and women had different standards back then too.


25 posted on 05/03/2025 5:29:28 PM PDT by clutzyfuzzy
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