Dig this.
Good Lord, there is so much to unpack here.
First off, while I've never had a child, I have swung a sword. As I understand it, they use different muscles.
The quote comes from a romance novel.
The US Army has two different fitness standards - one for men and a much easier one for women. Women have no business being anywhere near the combat arms units, much less the elite ones.
This is the 82nd Airborne, an elite unit in the Army. It got absolutely dragged in the replies and quote tweets. It dawned on me that they live in as much of a bubble as anyone in academia. No one in the Army can speak out against this woke madness. On the Internet, however, when you talk rot, you are fair game. I wonder if the PAO officers were surprised at the pushback. Maybe they held their heads up even higher, basking in the knowledge that they were fighting Hate™.
The US Army is employed by the citizens of the USA. Maybe before you worry about diversity and inclusion, you could win a war or two. Right now, their track record is pretty poor. This is like listening to the Chicago Bears talk about how great their game plans were in the last season. You know, the one where they ended 3-14.
On that point, we just lost a 20-year, 8-gazillion dollar war against a numerically and technologically inferior foe whose entire reason for existence is the elimination of all diversity everywhere. Doubling down on the strategy that lost only works in the Army briefing rooms where no one can disagree with the generals. Out where the Deplorables live, that's not going to work.
So we lost the last war, we're putting women in combat units which will help lose the next war and American women aren't having babies while Muslim women are. Presuming that Sharia isn't a good look for the US, we're well on our way to losing wars in the distant future against an Islamic European foe. Brilliant strategy, everyone.
What a clown car.
When I looked this up to see how the physical standards are different for men and women in the Army, I saw that they don't just ease the standards for women. They also do it for "older troops", which is apparently guys over 45.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like the big issue is that the Army has been having trouble meeting its recruiting targets for a while now. They are afraid that if they enforce the basic army physical fitness standards standards too strictly, even for clerks and support personnel, then they will force a bunch of guys into retirement and reduce their potential recruit pool, making things even worse.
If the article linked below is to be believed, it is just the physical standard that everyone has to pass (in order to be in the army at all) that varies depending on age and gender. The standards to actually serve in the combat arms are still more stringent and standardized for everyone.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-03-23/army-eases-fitness-test-standards-for-women-older-troops
If you've got 40+-year-olds in the airborne units, you're screwed.
ReplyDeleteThis is a cultural problem, not a political one. By lowering the standards and letting in the fat slobs and the chicks, you're papering over it. No worries. History being the ruthless thing it is, we'll find this out soon enough.