Even After Standards were Lowered for Them, Half of Women Applicants Still Fail Marine Test

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
January 3, 2013

Perhaps this needs thought through a little better?  Ah, but then if we thought this through, we would have to think through the entire new social order.  And no one wants to do that.
Perhaps this needs thought through a little better? Ah, but then if we thought this through, we would have to think through the entire new social order. And no one wants to do that.

The sick anti-feminine feminist movement appears to be reaching the end of the line, as the government is forced to acknowledge that just as men cannot give birth to babies, women cannot be elite combat troops.

Regrettably, I am rather certain that they are going to simply drop the standards again, rather than face the political wrath of the feminist movement, who demands to be equal by constantly being given special treatment.

Would you want your daughter to be a marine? If you are a woman, would you want to be a marine?

What is the purpose of this madness?

From the AP:

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.

Although no new timetable has been set on the delayed physical requirement, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos wants training officials to “continue to gather data and ensure that female Marines are provided with the best opportunity to succeed,” Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine spokeswoman, said Thursday.

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.

Because the change is being put off, women will be able to choose which test of upper-body strength they will be graded on in their annual physical fitness test. Their choices:

—Pullups, with three the minimum. Three is also the minimum for male Marines, but they need 20 for a perfect rating.

—A flexed-arm hang. The minimum is for 15 seconds; women get a perfect score if they last for 70 seconds. Men don’t do the hang in their test.

Officials said training for pullups can change a person’s strength, while training for the flex-arm hang does little to adapt muscular strength needed for military tasks

In other news, Andrew Anglin recently failed the test of making a baby stop crying (though he can do 30 full pullups, if he’s not weighted).