{"id":39058,"date":"2013-12-27T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T20:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39058"},"modified":"2013-12-27T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T20:33:19","slug":"females-marines-vs-pull-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39058","title":{"rendered":"Females Marines vs. Pull Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio sends us a link from NPR<\/a> which reports that fifty-six percent of female Marines couldn’t meet the three pull-up requirement which was the goal of Big Corps that was supposed to go into effect on the first of January, and since those female bots couldn’t meet the requirement, Big Corps quietly dropped the whole thing;<\/p>\n

The three pullups is already the minimum required for all male Marines. Now the Marine Corps has postponed the plan, and that’s raising questions about whether women have the physical strength to handle ground combat, which they’ll be allowed to do beginning in 2016.<\/p>\n

Marine officers would not talk to NPR on tape. They said they delayed the pullup requirement to avoid losing not only recruits but also current female Marines who can’t pass the test.<\/p>\n

The Marine Corps has been using it to test upper body strength for men for more than 40 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The announcement was made to social media outlets, including in this video from The Corps Report at about the 20 seconds mark;<\/p>\n