I was talking to friend of mine who was attending the Indianapolis Police Department training academy and he had just finished his fitness evaluations. I asked him how many pull ups he had to do and he said none. It turns out that so few female recruits can do a single pull up that they just eliminated them from the fitness standards. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the same thing is true for the military.
Luckily, combat is much less physically demanding these days..
Wonder why they came up with any standards at all? After all, how physically demanding was Tarawa or Hue City or Fallujah?