Shit I am few months shy of 71 and I can do 5. This is just plain wrong!
Females in the Marine Corps currently are not required to do even a single pull-up, and a deadline mandating that by Jan. 1, 2014, they be able to do at least 3 pull-ups as part of their training has been delayed for at least a year, the Corps quietly announced on social media.
Unlike their female counterparts, male Marines have long been required to do at least 3 pullups as part of the Physical Fitness Test (PFT). That’s the minimum requirement for males.
There’s something to a woman’s physique that inhibits the ability to perform pull-ups. It doesn’t make it impossible but it does make a huge difference. My sibling sister works out regularly, does cardio, and is very fit. She still can’t perform a pull-up (yet).
There are a number of levels on which women are physiologically incapable of equalling men. In particular they are poorly suited to carrying heavy loads while walking.
Women can do pull ups. Female gymnasts anyone? I see them do pull ups all the time in Crossfit. However, most women are not good at it and need additional conditioning to get good.
The good news is that in the Army Airborne School they have (re)added a pull up requirement because they had a fatality.
Right after original announcement a whole bunch of feminazis, that never served, at work were talking about it not taking a pair of testicles to pull a trigger :bad:
I am all for women in combat. I am not for changing any of the qualifications. Yes there will be far fewer women in than men. But that is just how it is. Women and men are built different. We develop muscles differently. Our brains develop slightly differently. That is just how it is.
They changed pull ups to a 20 second flexed arm hang (i.e. the amount of time it takes a T-11 to “slip”). Also, as a gee-whiz input, the fatality was a man who did absolutely nothing he was trained to do, told to do, and then commanded to do via megaphone on the DZ.
Yes and yes. And chin ups too. It can be done. However, as many of us know, combat training is not an “event.” It lasts for weeks - weeks that never seem to end.
I’m surprised that the male minimum requirement is only three pull-ups. Has that always been the case going back to, say WWII ? I’m impressed that the female Marine stated she could only do one last year and is up to eight and setting her goal higher to twelve. Set higher goals to do better. Yep, she’s good to go.
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