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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Female Marines Not Required To Do 1 Pull-Up
December 27, 2013 - 2:02 PM
By Barbara Boland
(CNSNews.com) -- Females in the Marine Corps currently are not required to
do even a single pull-up, and a deadline mandating that by Jan. 1, 2014,
they be able to do at least 3 pull-ups as part of their training has been
delayed for at least a year, the Corps quietly announced on social media.
Unlike their female counterparts, male Marines have long been required to do
at least 3 pullups as part of the Physical Fitness Test (PFT). That's the
minimum requirement for males.
Female Marines are required, however, to do a flexed-arm hang from a bar,
and their PFT score is calculated based upon how long they can properly hang
on the bar. (See video for pull-ups and flexed-arm hang demonstrations.)
Currently, “women aren’t able to make the minimum standard of three pull-
ups,” Marine spokesman Capt. Eric Flanagan told CNSNews.com. Fifty-five
percent of female recruits tested at the end of boot camp were unable to do
three pull-ups (1 percent of male recruits also failed).
Marine officers told NPR off-the-record that, given the three-pull-ups rule,
they were afraid of losing “not only new recruits, but also current
female Marines who can’t pass the test.”
Female Marines will be allowed to do the flexed-arm hang instead of pull-ups
this year. With the arm hang, a person grabs the bar with both hands and
pulls their body up and holds their chin above the bar for as long as
possible.
If a female Marine can hold that flexed-arm hang for 70 seconds, she scores
100 points; 60 seconds, 80 points; 30 seconds, 30 points -- see chart.
The deadline for women to meet the men’s minimum standard of three pull-ups
has been postponed a year and “will continue to be assessed,” Capt.
Flanagan told CNSNews.com. The Marines' Twitter announcement on the topic
was posted on Nov. 20. But by Dec. 27, few media outlets had mentioned the
news.
Pull-ups have been used to test Marines’ upper body strength for over 40
years. The ability to pull-up one’s own body weight over a bar shows the
upper body strength that, in combat, is needed to lift fallen comrades, pull
one’s self over a wall, and carry heavy munitions. Combat Marines also
carry a pack that weighs around 90 pounds, with gunners carrying an
additional 50 or 60 pounds.
Women in the Marine Corps will be allowed into ground combat in 2016. The
delay in meeting men’s physical standards has raised questions about “
whether women have the physical strength to handle ground combat,” reported
NPR.
“‘If you can’t pull yourself up, have the decency to pull yourself out,’
Ralph Peters, a retired Army officer and military historian, told Time.com
. “‘The military, despite all the post-modern technology, is still
essentially physical.’”
The Marines’s “Corps Report” anchor, Lance Cpl. Ally Beiswanger,
explained that the deadline has been extended to allow for “further
gathering of data to ensure that all female Marines are given the best
opportunity to succeed.”
She also stated that last year she could only do one pull-up, and “now I’m
up to eight.” | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 2 跟学校的AA如出一辙。老黑成绩差也可以上哈佛耶鲁。
现在当兵没块儿也行。
不过不知道敌人的子弹是不是也是智能的，碰到subprime的兵能够减少杀伤 | E*********o
发帖数: 5965 | | r******g
发帖数: 4002 | 4 一个黑女人，短短几年不是被奥巴马提拔成高级将领吗？奥巴马是观海，从内部搞垮
美国，应该是没有异议了。 | I******I
发帖数: 14241 | | j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | 6 不怕神一样的对手，就怕猪一样的队友
【在 r******g 的大作中提到】
: 一个黑女人，短短几年不是被奥巴马提拔成高级将领吗？奥巴马是观海，从内部搞垮
: 美国，应该是没有异议了。
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