While female Marines will strongly be incentivized to do those pullups to achieve a high score, they can opt for the “flexed-arm hang” instead. For example, females can’t score higher than 50 points for a flexed-arm hang, but just one pullup will net them 51 points, Marine Corps Times reports.
“I think this is a great way to implement the change as it gives an incentive to increase a score without the fear of failing the PFT,” Col. Robin Gallant told Marine Corps Times. “As women work on them to increase their score, they can be confident that they won’t fail a PFT. I think this is a huge benefit and I’m glad it might become a reality.”
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Yay, lowering standards but lets call it equality!
This is BS. Women wants everything "but" they have to be accommodated with a lesser / weaker standards. Now who would you want at your back lesser person or one who has passed a vigorous standard. "Equal Pay Means Equal Work / Equal Standards". I have had to work under these BS standards, "Life & Death" situations and the stress is tremendous because you have to control situations and be responsible for a weaker person.
Hope they won't be in combat situations.
That's good allow them to be in combat zone and in the next breath don't set limits guidelines on upper body strength. Hope they don't have to carry one of their comrades out of a hot zone what are you gonna do call timeout ??? UNREAL
So much for equality.
That's because they can't! ! NEVER COULD!!! Yet they are fit to lead!! LMAO!!! EMBARRASSING! !
That's pretty pathetic actually. I watched American Ninja Warrior and saw quite a few females with the upper body strength to do at least one pull up. And there supposed to carry someone and there weapon out of a combat zone?
They did the same stuff to get minorities into college, management, Civil Service, McDonald's, Walmart. Dumb it down till everything means nothing.
Sad sad sad but the PC croud will say it's only fair.
Practice, practice, practice.
There should be NO difference in the testing. If the women can't pass it, so be it. They don't qualify. BTW, I'm a female patriot...
Agree with 10:05 PM completely. I too, am a female.
When you see this administration forcing the US Marine Corps to lower their standards, you know that the Corps has been weakened from the inside by weeding out the senior officers that would maintain the standards - the POSPOTUS' "yes-men".
6:36 - they are ONLY fit to lead in this administration!
If the stuff hits the fan - we're gonna get our butts kicked!
When the enemy heard the Marines were on the way, they knew their end was coming.
Now, they are just going to laugh.
Give them the .50 cal and tell them to march up that mountain trail. Then send them back to the Air Force.
OTHER Marines are going to die just because of this stupid stupid concession to more political correctness.
Its sickening.
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