{"id":39113,"date":"2014-01-01T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T13:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39113"},"modified":"2014-01-01T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T13:46:51","slug":"marine-pull-up-controversy-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39113","title":{"rendered":"Marine pull up controversy continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines found out that pull ups are too hard for female boots, so the commandant, John Amos, decided that, despite the USMC&#8217;s announcement that they&#8217;d make women do three (F&#8217;n) pull ups to graduate from Boot Camp this year, they won&#8217;t change the requirement from the &#8220;flex arm hang&#8221; because they don&#8217;t want to discourage female boots, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/marine-corps-won-t-change-pull-up-training-despite-failure-rate-1.260082\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Marine Corps announced in December 2012 its intent to require pull-ups for women, and added pull-up specific training to boot camp, and posted a workout program online for Marines to follow, said Col. Sean Gibson, a Marine spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five percent of female recruits were unable to do the minimum of three pull-ups, but there will be no change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent physical training of recruits has demonstrated positive results and is continuing as currently structured,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Corps Training and Education Command will also \u201ccontinue to gather data and ensure that female Marines are provided with the best opportunity to succeed,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n<p>Amos pushed back the requirement because he was concerned that an unacceptable number of female recruits, officer candidates and Marines would fail the test or leave the Corps because of it, Gibson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like I said before, they&#8217;re training women incorrectly if, after eight weeks of physical training, they still can&#8217;t do three (F&#8217;n) pull ups (FFS). They just don&#8217;t want to &#8211; by &#8220;they&#8221; I mean either the Marine Corps or the women, whichever is failing the commandant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marines found out that pull ups are too hard for female boots, so the commandant, &hellip; <a title=\"Marine pull up controversy continues\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39113\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine pull up controversy continues<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39113","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=39113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}