Marines: Female Recruits Can Be In Combat Roles EVEN If They’re Not Physically Capable

BY STEVE STRAUB ON DECEMBER 27, 2013 · LEAVE A COMMENT · IN CURRENT EVENTS

If a woman (or a man) can’t pass the physical fitness exams she should NOT be allowed in combat, or any other position which requires physical strength.

Via NPR:

Starting Jan. 1, every woman in the Marines Corps was supposed to meet a new physical standard by performing three pullups. But that has been put off.
The Marine Corps announced it quietly. There was no news conference — just a notice on and an item on its own TV show, .
Lance Cpl. Ally Beiswanger explained that the pullup test had been put off until sometime next year, to gather more data and “ensure all female Marines are given the best opportunity to succeed.”
So far, female Marines are not succeeding. Fifty-five percent of female recruits tested at the end of boot camp were doing fewer than three pullups; only 1 percent of male recruits failed the test.
The three pullups is already the minimum required for all male Marines. Now the Marine Corps has postponed the plan, and that’s raising questions about whether women have the physical strength to handle ground combat, which they’ll be allowed to do beginning in 2016.
Marine officers would not talk to NPR on tape. They said they delayed the pullup requirement to avoid losing not only recruits but also current female Marines who can’t pass the test.
The Marine Corps has been using it to test upper body strength for men for more than 40 years. And that upper body strength, they say, is necessary to serve in ground combat: to pull yourself out of a canal in Afghanistan, to climb over a mud wall, to carry an ammunition box.

Do you think it’s wrong to weaken the Marines by allowing women into combat roles who are not physically qualified?

http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/c...ically-capable