At boot camp, 3 out of 4 women fail to meet combat standards

[pragmatic]

We love the women. Really.

But [spoiler alert]......boys and girls are different. Girls do not have adequate physical frame/strength to compete with boys in physical one on one combat. To place them in that situation is not in the best interest of overall military readiness.

Girls would/should only be sent into front line combat after we have exhausted all the boys. Which would sort of suggest we are already $#@!ed.....

[The Xl]

Those one out of four must be badasses, though.

[Ethereal]

I am so glad we have them in that arena... Jew haters do no not realize the value Israel serves.

Because anyone who doesn't worship Israel must hate Jews, right?

[pragmatic]

Those one out of four must be badasses, though.

Possible.

But so far all we know is that they managed to meet the minimum qualifications.

[Ethereal]

Those one out of four must be badasses, though.

Not really. The standards in Marine Corps boot camp are already quite low. I knew a Marine who made it all the way to Fleet Marine Forces who couldn't do a single pull-up, for example.

[Peter1469]

Not really. The standards in Marine Corps boot camp are already quite low. I knew a Marine who made it all the way to Fleet Marine Forces who couldn't do a single pull-up, for example.

A long time ago I mentioned my Airborne school. We had a marines with us who were really out of shape.

[Trish]

Not surprising. Everyone knows women are generally smaller and weaker than men. Quite cunning, but cunning doesn't help when doing pullups.

I agree. Since women are natural leaders and so much better at strategy I'm okay with them bossing the muscle around. :0p

[Ethereal]

A long time ago I mentioned my Airborne school. We had a marines with us who were really out of shape.

The entire armed services are plagued by substandard personnel. The only place where it isn't really an issue is in the special operations community and even some of those guys are shit bags.

[Cthulhu]

I tried to get in the Army in 2008, my record was a deal breaker.

Probably good you didn't.

We have a boner for North Korea right now.

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[Cthulhu]

And if truth be told four out of ten Americans males would fail also.


"A riddle, Madam Chairman. When is government spending not government spending? And on the other hand, when does government spending which, according to the conservatives, destroys jobs, in fact create jobs? The answer is when it's for weapons. We have, on the other side, a form of weaponized Keynesianism. When it comes to spending money to build roads or improve medical infrastructure or do other things that are enhancing the quality of life, they tell us that government spending doesn't create a job. But when we are talking about continuing to produce weapons that have the admirable purpose of defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and we're still producing the weapons, then somehow we have to keep them going because of its job creation capacity.... I am amazed that people can lament spending and forget the elephant in the room. And when the elephant forgets the elephant in the room, I suppose it's even more surprising, because it is massive military spending now and for the future that is the problem.... The budget that my friends on the other side would like commits us to spending billions of dollars to defend Prague against Iran. I'd rather protect old people against poverty." Barney Frank, congressional budget resolution for FY10, Apr. 2, 2009

Doesn't matter.

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