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.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
You are way ahead of the curve as what you fear is what is going to happen. The next war will be won by that army without women combat soldiers.
"Female Marine officers attempting to enter the Infantry Officer Course are not expected to meet the same physical fitness screening standards as male Marines, but they do have to match male performance in the course."
Believe...........
LOL. This is the the training that forward observers use to call in artillery.
LOL. IKR?
Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends the non-shaving boys and cane-borne old men deserves to be destroyed.
BOHICA is the motto of the current regime.
Were you combat loaded with Ruck? My experience is unloaded the girls were as good as the guys. Loaded 60-80# a different story.
Women should be required to register for the draft. For too many years, females have been voting liberal because they don’t have to worry about being drafted in a big war. It’s easy to vote to cut the military budget when you’re sitting at home with your biggest concern being what eyeliner to wear. It’s about time that they started worrying about taking a bayonet in the guts. They might start paying more attention to elections.
That's not correct. Army PT standards in basic training for ages 17-21 are 35 pushups, 47 situps and a two-mile run in 16:46 or less. These standards rise in AIT. My soldier did 48/72/14:05 just two weeks ago.
http://www.military.com/military-fitness/army-fitness-requirements/army-basic-training-pft
And I would say the the guys were equal. I knew some guys who could shoot also. Shooting is hand eye coordination so gals did just fine at that, or as well as the guys. But since we are no longer an agricultural country most don’t have a lot of experience handling firearms.
That said, the standard for females in basic is 13/47/19:42. Which is of course nowhere near the male standard.
Probably synchronized swimming also.
And, you don't see them demonstrating for the right to be drafted being 'equal' to males.
The 'excuse' by Congress in the past to exclude females is at the time they were not allowed in combat/war zones. Now they are, but won't include women in the draft.
It is approaching 40 years that we have been playing this game, women can’t cut it and we know that, and have known it since the beginning of time, yet decade after decade the same old inaccurate phrases are repeated, “as long as standards don’t change”, “as long as females meet the same standard as the males”, “females can shoot a gun accurately” (so can 70 year old amputees), and on and on.
Females have better vision and hand eye coordination for detail work.
Dat’s why the USSR had mostly female surgeons.
My female handgun students take to guns like the proverbial duck to water.
Like I said, it was 1988 so memory is fuzzy. But I did recall going into my reserve unit and the girls pretty much walked the 2 mile run...
I was a bit of a stud at that age and I made a 280 + composite score. But the females could do that without putting up big numbers. Just didn’t seem right.
Then you did a marvelous job. Thanks for your service. :)
LOL, I can do that! Can’t do any of the crud my Marine son does. Can barely lift his vest with the plates in it. I’ll just blame it on my age and too much keyboarding at Free Republic.
:) I got pissed at first, always over react until I re-read it a couple of times and see the /s, and now I have a blurry monitor. Typical female.
We lost another soldier in Kandahar, from DOD:
Staff Sgt. Alex A. Viola, 29, of Keller, Texas, died Nov. 17, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device while on dismounted patrol.
He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
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