“Does it really have to be that high?”
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, admitted that if women cannot pass the stringent requirements of serving in Combat Arms MOSs (Military Occupational Specialties), then the Armed Forces will have to ask itself if the standards “really have to be that high,” reports CNSNews.com.
In a joint press conference with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Dempsey was asked this question by NBC reporter Jim Miklaszewski:
You indicated that — well, at least it sounds like that there may be certain combat operational forays that women might be excluded from still. I mean, what would be the reasons for that? What sorts of operations?
No, I wouldn’t put it in terms of operations, Jim. What I would say is that, as we look at the requirements for a spectrum of conflict, not just COIN, counterinsurgency, we really need to have standards that apply across all of those.
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Importantly, though, if we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high? With the direct combat exclusion provision in place, we never had to have that conversation.
Institutional Favoritism Already In Place…
The Marine Corps recently instituted a change to its physical fitness test, the upshot of which is that female Marines will no longer be exempt from performing pull-ups as part. However, in order to receive a perfect score of 100, women are required to only 8 repetitions. Men, in contrast, need to do 20 reps for the same score.
Male and female Marines are both required to perform 100 abdominal “crunches” within 2 minutes to receive a perfect 100 point score. But men must complete the three-mile run 3 minutes faster than women (18 minutes vice 21 minutes) in order to receive a perfect score.
According to Marine Corps Order 6100.13 W/CH 1:
Marines who are not physically fit are a detriment and detract from the combat readiness of their unit.
In a report from the Government Accounting Office, the Army’s physical fitness test also has a gender disparity in favor of women over men:
Because of physiological differences, both the Army’s and the Academy’s physical fitness test standards are different for men and women. For example, to receive ascore of 90 on the push-up event, men must perform 72 push-ups in 2 minutes; women must do 48. To receive a score of 90 in the sit-up event, men must do 82 and women must do 84 in a 2-minute period. To receive a score of 90 on the 2-mile run, men must achieve a time of 12 minutes and 57 seconds; women must achieve the same distance in 15 minutes and 54 seconds.
The Navy also has a marked difference in passing scores for their male vs. female fitness scorings, but what could be described as disturbing, is the amount of body fat allowable within the U.S. Navy:
Male Body Fat Standards:
Age 17 – 39: Max of 22% body fat Age 40 and over: Max of 23% body fat
Female Body Fat Standards:
Age 17 – 39: Max of 33% body fat Age 40 and over: Max of 34% body fat
It’s commonplace in all branches of the Armed Forces for women to outscore men in physical fitness examinations, yet in reality remain physically weaker and thus be promoted ahead of them.
“Because the old goal was Excellence.”
(New goal: “good enough.”)
+1
This guy is the chief of all our military, and it tells you why this country has not won a war since WWII. When “Honor, Duty and Country” becomes what political appointee’s want and is more important then honor, our military is the loser. Political correctness has been substituted for common sense.
Dempsey is a political hack, who is complicit in the emasculation of the American military. This administration is personally and directly responsible for placing our military at greater risk, all in service to political correctness and to appease and further secure the feminist vote.
The inmates are in charge of the asylum and are doing what they must do, create a cluster f**k.
Reportedly, most women already in the service don’t want to be assigned to front line combat positions. But many women in the military simultaneously complain that promotion is hindered by their lack of combat experience.
This is known as cognitive dissonance. A condition ubiquitous on the left.
My sister is 2 1/2 years my junior, and her arrival on the scene radically changed my life and position within the family structure. Throughout the next 20 years, she would variously be a tormentor in both physical and mental ways. She’d do things to get me in trouble with my father, just for the giggles of getting me into trouble. I had been bitten, kicked, scratched, punched, slapped, and then at any one time blamed for the physical violence. My father, God rest his soul, was so smitten by his athletic, physically fit talented daughter, that she just could never be the cause of the commotion. My mother, God rest her soul too, could never bring herself to tell my father the truth.
You see, I was raised by a man who didn’t care to hear the excuses. A real man was never, ever, to raise a hand to, or strike a woman. EVER! “If a woman is hitting you, protect your privates, ball up, and take the hits. You may not, ever strike a woman… EVER!… If you do, you will answer to me.” That was the way that I was raised. It was the code of ethics that I lived, and live by to this day. It is as much a part of me, as my hand, or foot, or love of good food. I was not alone, every one of my friends lived by the same code.
One day, when I was in my early 20′s my sister took off on one of her attacks over some slight or something that struck her as something that she would advantage herself… The first blow hit me in the right shoulder.. left hook slap very hard. It stung but didn’t really do much more than redden my arm. However, the right hook haymaker that was aimed at my left upper quadrant looked good enough to do damage. So, I did something that I hadn’t ever done before… (no I didn’t block and right cross her in the chin…. like I would have with a guy…) I slid to the left, and caught her fist in my right hand… SMACK!!! Her eyes got really wide from the squinty mean that I was faced with before… She was surprised that I moved that fast.. and I put just enough pressure around her fist that she could not pull it away.
“You only do that because you know that I won’t hit you back, and that’s pathetic.”
Sheblinked at me.. I dropped her fist, turned around and walked away. She never hit me again. She has been through hell and will be going through it again, I love her dearly and her penance has been more than paid by the circumstances of my mother’s illness and passing.
She learned a lesson.
I fear that most women will not learn it. Western women, and in particular American women lived relatively charmed lives, considering. They live under westernized mores and standards that have grown and evolved over the last few centuries, to value their lives and contributions to society. Yes, there are individual women whose lives have been tragic abusive messes, but they are the exception, not the rule.
If women want to see what it is like to be on “equal” physical terms with men, then they need only look at the burka clad BMO’s of Saudi Arabia, or their illiterate brutalized counterparts in Afghanistan. The daily beatings, the polygamous marriages, the honor killings… the stonings, rapes, and the punishment for being raped. You see, those women are on physically equal terms with their men. You can see how triumphant they are.
Women feel empowered because men saw the justice in it and handed that power to them. Women benefit from the rule of law because just men invented it. Women contribute greatly to Western society because good men stepped aside and allowed it to happen.
That is a controversial concept, but that does not make it any less true.
It is time for men and women of Western Society to quit playing at pretend fantasy games. We are under attack, and we are failing to come close to comprehending the enemy.
He laughs at our girl soldiers, and ridicules us for allowing them to be there. We are the fools for not having put a stop to it before it weakened us beyond saving ourselves. These girl soldiers are under the false impression that they are equal on the battlefield, and our enemies know better, even if we don’t.
Over at American Spectator they call it the “Bloody Glass Ceiling”. A brutal image… barbaric in fact.
r/TMF
‘then the Armed Forces will have to ask itself if the standards “really have to be that high’
are you serious?????
unstinkingbelievable….they really do not want the US to succeed and continue to be the super power it’s been.
I am of a similar mind as this particular female veteran:
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/27/some-advice-on-women-in-combat-from-a-female-veteran/