[jwalsh07]

I’m 64 years old. I do 50 pushups a night. When I was a grunt I could do many more. 49 pushups and 6 pullups seems a bit on the light side fro Ranger school.

[sparklite2]

Yeah, I think so, too. I wonder if SEALs have such low requirements.

[skeeter]

Six chin-ups?

[jonascord]

If memory serves, chin-ups and pull-ups are different animals, contingent on hand position.

I could do 10 pull-ups, out of boot camp, 70 sit-ups, a 3-mile in 20 minutes, (And I was slow.) 60 push-ups. Did more than oone 6 mile run in NCO school. There was a running argument about doing the PFT in boots or running shoes.

There has GOT to be more to it. Falling out of a Chithook 3 times is just remembering to keep your knees bent.

12 miles with 100 lbs of gear, armor, weapon, ammo, and then running a live fire tactical problem, tho, is hard. (The SAS calls it 'tabbing' for some obscure British reason.)

I figure they would have to jam it all together into one long series, none of this eating a sleeping nonsense.

[x1stcav]

I’m 64 years old. I do 50 pushups a night. When I was a grunt I could do many more. 49 pushups and 6 pullups seems a bit on the light side fro Ranger school.

When I was in Benning OCS in '69 the standard was 25-50 pushups for any minor infraction. I agree that 6 pullups seems light.

[momincombatboots]

Those numbers seem close to my maxes decades ago...that would have been max for a twenty yr old girl... So.. Looks like lower standards for sure. I was always scoring at least a 301 or better.. I guess after seeing the dedication Rhonda Rousey puts into her MMA career.. My views on this are changing. RR is a true warrior... Guess there may be a handful of women who can do it... The question is, should they? Why not have the most capable warrior, regardless of any other factor. An elite group of premenstual women could do some damage... Might just need a week of chocolate and a pillow to cry in later.

[trebb]

I’m 64 years old. I do 50 pushups a night. When I was a grunt I could do many more. 49 pushups and 6 pullups seems a bit on the light side fro Ranger school.

I'm 62 and work out with my bowflex and run (have an elliptical for the Biloxi Summers and other bad weather). and am in similar condition. I could do the strength requirements of push ups and pull ups after my workout....

[Eagles6]

Yeah, average fit high school kid can do that. This smells like soetoro.

[manc]

same here. It’s a joke for special forces and did these women not fail the first time and if so then was the instructors told to be more soft with the women to get them through?

As for the physical, I can do all of that now , the biggest one would be 5 miles in 40 mins , but I can do a 5 k in 25 mins,