They certainly do have nice hair. \u00a0Okay, enough snarking on my part, as I wholly support the efforts of women who volunteer for this kind of thing.<\/p>\n
Per the article, in this group\u00a0of women there were over 300 who voluntarily applied the first year, but only 12 made it through to completion. \u00a0I believe there is a high rate of washout in this kind of preliminary training, anyway.<\/p>\n
At first I thought it was an April Fool’s joke, but it was not released on 4\/1\/17, so that eliminated that possibility.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39434655<\/a><\/p>\n According to the narrative, the women in training carry their weight in a backpack (ruck, for you picky people), which means that if one of them weighs 120lb. (54.54 KG), this is what they carry. They hike 30 KM (18.9 miles) per day, they get a lot of cold weather training,\u00a0they do a lot of shooting, and they do other physical training.<\/p>\n Everything was fine, but the video showed them doing pushups. I couldn’t help giggling. They don’t look very well done to me, but maybe that’s just me. I don’t do regular pushups. I do wall pushups, which are easier on my aging back.<\/p>\n Still, I’m not going to say it’s baloney, because we have our own ladies in Spec Ops training, don’t we? But it’s been a year, and no women have stepped up and volunteered for BUD\/S since it was opened to Navy women. \u00a0http:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/year-seals-still-havent-seen-female-applicants\/<\/a><\/p>\n I think they should do something about the hair, like get it out of the way. Long hair, even in a pony tail or braid, is not your friend when you undergoing a strenuous program. \u00a0But they’re Norwegians, so their regs are probably different from ours.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"