This stupid change of policy might just effectively end women in the Army and Marine Corps. To have gender neutral standards, the General probably means physical fitness standards for woman volunteering for infantry duty; however, if they actually do this, how can they still have different standards for women and men in non-infantry fields? They can’t. Many women will not join under these changes and many more women will be physically broken. Only a small fraction of currently serving women would be able to meet minimum male pt standards. Only a handful could make it through infantry training or last very long in that job if they do make it through training.
Based on what my Army buddies have told me, everyone is infantry. Your tank is diabled, infantry. Helicopter down, infantry. I would think that you would still have to have some type of skill to make it back to your own lines.
Based on that theory the standards are already dumbed down. Didn’t the convoy with that Jessica gal get lost and then cut off?
I read an article (I don’t think it was here but maybe?) in which Dempsey was quoted as saying something like “If women can’t pass the standards then the standards may be too high”.
So maybe they’ll just lower all the standards.
After all, the goal is to destroy the military.