Posted on 11/18/2013 10:48:36 AM PST by QT3.14
The Marine Corps may have to change its physical standards in order to put females in positions to one day lead infantry platoons in combat.
Both the Marine Corps and the Army continue to wrestle with the mandate that former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued in January, directing the U.S. military to open hundreds of combat-arms jobs that have been closed to female servicemembers.
So far, the Marines have been out ahead.
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Just don’t lower the standards and then say
male and females are equals.
For a long time the DOD has run a PR game saying that the women do everything that the men do all the while it is completely different including the PT standards.
Hmm...the one thing they kept saying would never happen. Chalk this up with “if you like your plan you can keep it.”
Some animals are more equal than others, comrade.
However, if the powers that be weren’t doing this for political points, or some agenda, the sensible thing to do would be to take an experimental company of women who feel they can do the job and build them up to see if it would work. 180 days should’ve been given to ensure female combat arms recruits could meet the male fitness requirements, prior to actually going to the selected training. This six months would also be to gauge the determination of the individual recruit, make sure that they’re not just a bunch of Rambo’s In Name Only. That’s how I’d approach it though.
When will they lower the SEAL standards?
But they already have. P.T. scores between men and women are different. They were different when I inducted at Ft. Benning in 1988. By different I mean that a female age 19, can do 50 pushups and pass with a high score. A male, 19, doing 50 pushups is a fail if my memory serves me correctly. But you get the point in any case.
Yes back then women demanded to be treated equally. Scratch that. Women wanted set asides and affirmative action and lowered physical standards. Women wanted to be excused from physical training when they had heavy periods. Damn, I just had to get up and do it.
Now I knew some women that could shoot. But I knew fewer that would hump a pack all day.
But that’s what the PC crowd/tyrants do best.
Ah, the wonders of post-post modernism.
A ruler must not be 12 inches; it must be changed to comply with what we think a foot ought to be.
What is a PT standard?
It stands for Phone Talking standards, the ability to communicate over radios etc.
...Which is exactly what they're doing, without admitting it. It's all about pleasing pressure groups now.
Physical Training
A lot of people are going to die in order for the ‘RATS to have a politically correct military. It won’t be the first time people died for political correctness though.
Put a few women in the NFL, MLB and the NBA for a few years then come back and give me a report.
Pretty sure all of those are less demanding than front line combat.
Physical Training
“Now I knew some women that could shoot. But I knew fewer that would hump a pack all day.”
I had my 18th birthday in Army BCT @ Ft. Jackson, SC. I was in the very first co-ed training platoon in 1979.
It got REALLY tiring dragging the boys along every road march. ;)
Physically, some of us can do more, some less. I agree that standards should NEVER have been lowered to let women in the military, but that barn door is already wide open. Sadly, anything goes in today’s military.
I am so GLAD to be out of the military these days. I DO miss the life, though. :)
“It won’t be the first time people died for political correctness though.”
Nope, it’s the communist way.
Abbreviating things stinks!
> Now I knew some women that could shoot. But I knew fewer that would hump a pack all day.
Women can be excellent shooters with the right training. I remember a few that graduated in my class that scored in the high ‘80’s and low 90’s. The guys that made it to SWAT were required to shoot mid to high 90’s.
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