Easy gents, the article is asking if PFT standards need to be changed not MOS specific standards. Quoted from the article:
“It’s unclear if the Marine Corps will decide to require males and females to perform the same PFT standards, but officials said that the service has no plans to lower the physical requirements of Marine infantry training.
“Those physically-demanding tasks are performance-based standards that all Marines in that MOS must be able to perform,” Krebs said. “So whether you are male or whether you are female, that’s the standard and that is what we are going to hold it to.”
The Marine Corps has long had different PFT standards for men and women. What I took from the article is the fact that the Marine Corps is looking into requiring women to meet the same PFT standards as the men. This debate has gone on in the Corps for as long as I can remember. The Marine Corps is in no way looking to water down MOS specific standards. If a woman can pass the course doing the same exact things as the men, then more power to her. There will be a few who can do this, but the majority are going to fail. Hell 25% of men fail to meet the standards it takes to become a Marine Corps infantryman.
“The Marine Corps is in no way looking to water down MOS specific standards.”
What they’re looking to do and what the political brass shove down their throats might be two very different things.