Many people want “equality” for females in the service. Yet when it comes to physical standards, many want them to have special treatment. I say you want to be a Marine, than you need to meet the same standards as every other Marine. Do away with the old man pft as well.
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[quote]angry chicken wrote:
When politicians run the military, it’s a fucking disaster. Period. We need less political correctness and more code reds.[/quote]
Agreed. A platoon of soldiers should not be killed because Suzie couldn’t throw a grenade more than 8 feet.[/quote]
I don’t disagree, I actually think the 3 pull-up issues is fucking sad and pathetic, but have you seen some of the twats that enlist these days…[/quote]
One female at my unit didn’t pass a pft for 4 consecutive years. Not only did she get promoted (twice) but when she did finally pass it was because she lied when giving her numbers. Not saying that problem is only relegated to females but when you can’t even do the dead hang for 10 secs? Come on.[/quote]
Sad. [/quote]
This will sound insensitive, but everyone that has worked with females in the Marines knows the female that got pregnant in her first year and got a desk job for the rest of her career and got fat as fuck, yet continued to get promoted and get special treatment because she had a cute face.
The Gym used to be my shrink too, until I rode a motorcycle and a car turned in front of me! ; )
I am just trying to have fun but I am being quite honest. I can NOT do a single pullup with my one functional arm and I feel like I take pretty GOOD care of myself. I don’t workout six days a week because I am a stay at home dad. Want to give me free advice ; )
Be well and GOD Bless with Love
[quote]thegymismyshrink wrote:
The three pullup test for the women in the Marines was supposed to take effect this year and is now being delayed as they have found that half the women would fail out.
How hard is it really to train for a set of three pullups to keep your job? Soccer moms are busting out muscle-ups at the local Crossfit box while Marines can’t do three pullups? I’m afraid I can’t help but let this news influence my view of our current military. I always thought the women joining were at least athletic. From the pictures in the articles I now understand them to be women who are overweight, weak, and have never played a competitive sport. This can’t go on much longer, can it?
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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
[quote]Severiano wrote:
I was sort of disappointed in the strength standards of the Corps for men as well. When we got moved to pendleton the pullup bar in our barracks was torn off the wall, since the final PFT was already done by that point, the Drill Instructors really didn’t care that we didn’t have a pullup bar, but I wanted to do pullups during the hour of rec time we had, or instead of going to church on sundays.
I know for recon guys they have to carry a dumby that weighs like 185 lbs for several miles between a squad. I also remember carrying the ammo can for longer than normal periods because some of my platoon mates were a little weaker. How much awesome would a STRENGTH program go with that skinny fat spinning conditioning program they had when I was in? Where we would run a couple miles in the morning and do pushups and shit while getting smoked? All I know is, Marines should squat and be able to lift weights overhead.
They have martial arts implemented, now time to get the ladies into shape. [/quote]
The new CFT is a step in the right direct. I never had to do it though so I can’t comment any further than that.
3 miles and crunches are plain dumb in my opinion.
You all had an hour of rec time, must be nice…Damn west coasters. [/quote]
Yep, we’d get an hour of rec time every night to write home, do pullups and take a real shit (not by the numbers lol). No sand fleas, only thing I think we had that you didn’t was having to do our own laundry by hand, with those bust/ scrub brushes we spent so many hours cleaning the deck with lol.
I guess cleaning a floor will instil discipline and humility, but couldn’t we have learned the same under a loaded bar?
[quote]kneedragger79 wrote:
The Gym used to be my shrink too, until I rode a motorcycle and a car turned in front of me! ; )
I am just trying to have fun but I am being quite honest. I can NOT do a single pullup with my one functional arm and I feel like I take pretty GOOD care of myself. I don’t workout six days a week because I am a stay at home dad. Want to give me free advice ; )
Be well and GOD Bless with Love
[quote]thegymismyshrink wrote:
The three pullup test for the women in the Marines was supposed to take effect this year and is now being delayed as they have found that half the women would fail out.
How hard is it really to train for a set of three pullups to keep your job? Soccer moms are busting out muscle-ups at the local Crossfit box while Marines can’t do three pullups? I’m afraid I can’t help but let this news influence my view of our current military. I always thought the women joining were at least athletic. From the pictures in the articles I now understand them to be women who are overweight, weak, and have never played a competitive sport. This can’t go on much longer, can it?
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I think you get a pass based on “hardships suffered” lol. I had one of those moments, fortunately I didn’t lay my bike down. I did hit a guard rail at 40 mph after catching sand in a curve though. That was fun.