• SAS: Women allowed to join for first time
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Having spoken with (male) navy officers who worked alongside a couple of female sailors on select missions, and having asked them about this at the time, I can tell you that it ain't the women you gotta worry about in those situations.
Can't give you much citation other than my cousin Kevin who was a petty officer on a nuclear submarine in the UK HMS Trenchant. Was actually on the news for longest dive without resurfacing Now he is working at an office and got his boss pregnant.. My family has a long military history anyway
I suppose female police, paramedics, coroners, firefighters, nurses, doctors, mortuary technicians, and nursing home attendants just have to stand there bawling for a man to come help them lift their protectee.
You're a weird fella First you're talking about most marines not passing combat standards, and after i point out those are the ones that arent in combat MOSs you change track and now you're talking about fat fucks and yet you even admit said fat fucks in the infantry run the same PFT and CFT. Which most of them pass, otherwise they wouldn't be where they are. So they quite literally pass combat standards.
Did you read my post mate. The CFT and PFT aren't 'combat standards', they're fitness standards. They're there to make sure you're somewhat in shape, not ready for combat. Infantry has plenty of fat fucks, I never changed track I was talking about the Marine Corps in general. Most POGs pass the PFT and CFT too, that doesn't mean they're all amazingly fit and ready to go. Most infantry guys do too. I'm not sure if you're in or not but the amount of looking the other way that happens on PFT's and CFT's is amazing, scores are absolutely not a good indicator because of it.
they're fitness standards and if they pass every test they are required to meet standards in and they pass through every relevant school, I would say that makes them qualified to be infantrymen, wouldn't you? Not having washboard abs seems to be a rather irrelevant concern. I'm not sure whether we're talking past eachother at this point or not, but the larger point you and others in this thread seem to be avoiding is if all these fat fucks or completely unremarkable men manage every year in droves, and women largely don't (At boot camp, 3 out of 4 women fail to meet combat standards) , why on earth are you all entertaining the idea that there is going to significant numbers of women not being a complete waste of time on the much more intense selection courses for various SOF units that most men fail?
The problem isn't really that "a woman isn't strong enough" or anything, it's that they're lowering the standards for female soldiers.
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