Posted on 05/03/2015 3:37:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The FDNY for the first time in its history will allow someone who failed its crucial physical-fitness test to join the Bravest, The Post has learned.
Rebecca Wax, 33, is set to graduate Tuesday from the Fire Academy without passing the Functional Skills Training test, a grueling obstacle course of job-related tasks performed in full gear with a limited air supply, an insider has revealed.
“They’re going to allow the first person to graduate without passing because this administration has lowered the standard,” said the insider, who is familiar with the training.
Upon graduation, Wax would be assigned to a firehouse and tasked with the full duties of a firefighter.
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Sincerest apologies to the family of the guy who dies because she couldn’t carry him from the burning building.
Sorry, folks.
That’s one reason for the high attrition for the armed forces.
Too many of them don’t realize though before trying to move to defense contractors (one of the few places outside civil service to have hiring preferences for vets), that the big 4 defense contractors are even more left than the military per HR policy.
All in the name of diversity and inclusion, of course.
At least the “male who is now female” may still be strong enough to carry the unconscious person.
f theyre a match for Bruce Jenner....very likely...
Communities that have paid professional fire departments expect the service they pay for...
Fast response 24/7 to whatever the emergency...Firefighters are expected to vent, enter and search, advance the hose line, locate, confine and extinguish the fire while rescuing trapped or down occupants along the way...Dangerous, extremely strenuous physical work, leading often to exhaustion...
Thus, only the best, most fit candidates need apply or should be hired...And at the very best, PC quotas and affirmative action only coincidentally, rarely and accidentally happen to fill those criteria...
Taxpayers pay for protection of life and property, not social engineering by the Progressives at City Hall, or posturing/playacting by wannabees...
When I was a kid, I wanted to be Captain of a pirate ship...But the job wasn’t available and I wasn’t qualified anyway (too much cutting of throats...Aaar-ha-har, Maties!)...
Oh well, that’s life...Cupcake will just have to deal...
Females have never been measured by the male standard in the military, they have always had a special “female standard”.
Then lower pay would have been in order, no?
There was a hilarious video of females trying out for the LAFD years ago, but I have never been able to find it on the internet.
That would still apply, but the problem with war and firefighting, is that failure to perform adequately, is deadly.
Not so much in the Marine Corps. The Corps still separates recruits by gender and they have not rammed any females through the Infantry Officers Course yet. The Corps does not like to lower standards.
I was not very athletic or overly strong, but I had to pick up the slack, especially physically, for many female soldiers, especially in the field. My specialty was and is very female-heavy, so this became a huge pain in the neck for male soldiers within it. As many of the section chiefs, company commanders and such were also female, there was little to no recourse. Maybe that’s why PFC Manning wanted to be a girl...
You are a sexist.
I’ve seen the mixed sex units doing their morning runs with the females setting the pace, and once the MI battalion that we worked for joined us in the field, after we had already been there for a week.
I got to see the females up close and it was hilarious, they couldn’t even set up their big, canvas tent, finally the males of their unit went over and helped them, after enjoying the show for a while.
We were with our German counterparts and camping outside of their barracks buildings, and the Germans would not even let that unit inside their barracks bar, where we all drank beer and discussed our training every evening.
I also witnessed some very troubling effects of females, that unit was responsible for the camp chores and for guarding us, (although they did try to make us share guard duty, we laughed at that and told them that all we did in camp was rest and maintain our personal gear, and stay to ourselves and discuss our training with each other), and I witnessed a very cute female guard come inside the command tent to warm up, and I watched as her chain of command let her stay in there for probably 20 minutes and I watched as these men looked on her with some sort of mixture of daughter, sexy looking female, etc. and couldn’t bring themselves to read the riot act to her.
When we were ready to leave that place my unit was told by the Germans that a terrorist had been spotted watching us and that the surveillance was believed to be about us, yet here we were being guarded by people not taking it seriously.
How many men will die for political correctness?
How many have died because of political correctness?
Why shouldn’t they do this? If we accept it with lowering standards by race this is just a natural extension.
We can’t measure the vast effects this has on the eroding of standards, but ultimately it may lose wars for us.
A problem that I was telling people about since it first started, is that they will eventually completely change the military, already a perceptive person can see the military drifting into just another federal job, with daycare and female work place issues, and quality of life issues becoming more important than the gear and war fighting equipment.
In 20 or 30 years with females at 50% and female generals and admirals, more and more of the budget fights will be over workplace issues and improved daily life stuff that civilians obsess over, and pay and benefits, and the risk of foreign policy decisions and how they will affect those quality of life issues for the federal employees of the military, who might even become unionized at some point.
The military used to be all male, with drinking and smoking and fighting, hard living, hard working, hard training, and bad food, and low pay, and a warrior’s ethic and standards.
Some improvements to those areas were called for, but it should have remained a bastion of maleness, and male attitudes, and male concerns, bayonets and better rifles and more training, instead of gynecologists and sexism classes, and automatic transmissions, and lowered standards.
If I were Rebecca and had that “opportunity” I would just accidentally drop her out the nearest window then say “whoopsy”!
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