{"id":38594,"date":"2013-11-24T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T17:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38594"},"modified":"2013-11-24T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T17:32:04","slug":"female-raf-recruits-compensated-for-marching-like-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38594","title":{"rendered":"Female RAF recruits compensated for marching like men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-25078544\">BBC<\/a> which reports that three female Royal Air Force recruits were compensated by the Ministry of Defense (MOD) because they were required to march at an exaggerated (for them) pace in order to keep up with the men;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They claimed parading alongside taller male recruits caused them to over-stride and develop spinal and pelvic injuries, the Mail on Sunday reported.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood they will receive \u00a3100,000 from the MoD.<\/p>\n<p>The MoD said the RAF had now reviewed its recruit training practices to mitigate against the risk.<\/p>\n<p>The women told the Mail on Sunday they had extended their strides to 30in (76cm) over several weeks while undergoing basic training.<\/p>\n<p>RAF official policy now states female recruits should not be expected to extend the length of their strides beyond 27in (69cm).<\/p>\n<p>The paper reported that lawyers for one of the recruits claimed the Ministry of Defence (MoD) had accused the three of exaggerating their symptoms during the five-year legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>As well as marching in step with male colleagues at RAF Halton, in Buckinghamshire, the recruits claimed that carrying the same heavy packs as males had also contributed to their injuries, the paper reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, so you know what I&#8217;m thinking right now, so I really don&#8217;t have to do anything but leave this right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy sends us a link from BBC which reports that three female Royal Air Force recruits &hellip; <a title=\"Female RAF recruits compensated for marching like men\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38594\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Female RAF recruits compensated for marching like men<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}