Oh look: Women Can’t Hack it in the Marines

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/02/marines-female-fitness-plan_n_4533020.html

More than half of female Marines in boot camp can’t do three pullups, the minimum standard that was supposed to take effect with the new year, prompting the Marine Corps to delay the requirement, part of the process of equalizing physical standards to integrate women into combat jobs.

The delay rekindled sharp debate in the military on the question of whether women have the physical strength for some military jobs, as service branches move toward opening thousands of combat roles to them in 2016.

Starting with the new year, all female Marines were supposed to be able to do at least three pullups on their annual physical fitness test and eight for a perfect score. The requirement was tested in 2013 on female recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., but only 45 percent of women met the minimum, Krebs said.

The Marines had hoped to institute the pullups on the belief that pullups require the muscular strength necessary to perform common military tasks such as scaling a wall, climbing up a rope or lifting and carrying heavy munitions.

Officials felt there wasn’t a medical risk to putting the new standard into effect as planned across the service, but that the risk of losing recruits and hurting retention of women already in the service was unacceptably high, she said.

Click on the link to read the full article, but the feminization(and thus the weakening) of America marches on. Women don’t have the upper body strength to be Marines……so the solution is to lower the standards until women can pass the tests.

Which means then that our Marine Corps will be full of soldiers that actually aren’t physically capable of doing the tasks that a Marine Corps position would require them to do.

I wonder which faction of our enemies are laughing the hardest?

All I know is, a country that’s hell bent on destroying itself because it hates nature, biology, physics, history, sociology, general education and facts in the name of freedom and equality might want to begin to rethink its position on a few things. I’m just sayin’.