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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nChief Tango and Mick sent us links to articles about how Women Marines are trying to convince the Corps’ leadership that they need different height\/weight standards to keep up with the men. From the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n \u201cBeing big, strong, having a certain body mass, gives you an advantage,\u201d [Commandant Gen. Robert B. Neller] testified [to the Senate Armed Serivces Committee]. \u201cOne of the things I\u2019ve heard as I\u2019ve gone around and talked to female Marines is, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m out working out. I\u2019m lifting weights. I\u2019m getting bigger. And now I\u2019m outside the height-and-weight standards. Are you going to change the height-and-weight standards?’\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n No. they don’t need different height-to-weight standards, they just need a different way to measure muscle mass. If you allow standards for weight to surge, you’re allowing the less active soldiers to “bulk up” on stored energy (fat). I’m pretty sure that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will just take this random information at face value with no research, unlike his rejection of the mixed gender Marine units experiment a few months ago. I was a 128 pound, 68″ tall private and I never needed to “bulk up” to meet infantry standards. The most I weighed was 160 pounds (68″ tall) when I was living the high life in Germany – beer and food – before I went to the Master Fitness Course where I learned about that whole physiology thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"