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meadowlander

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22. Also, my understanding is that there are combat roles

Reply to orangecrush (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:06 PM

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where being massive and Hulked out is an actual disadvantage like trying to squeeze into a submarine, plane cockpit or a tank.

So if they want to create role-specific sex neutral tests for every position and those requirements were tied to the actual requirements of that role, fine. But if they did that, they may well find that an average woman outperforms an average man at them.

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Female Soldiers Will Have to Pass 'Sex-Neutral' Physical Test, U.S. Army Says [View all] orangecrush Tuesday OP

Women are not wanted in the US military now. Irish_Dem Tuesday #1

We do not have the upper body strength of men. We just don't. I would not have met the male standards for LiberalLoner Tuesday #3

Pound for pound GenThePerservering Tuesday #6

You're assuming women are 'weak' GenThePerservering Tuesday #2

Wrong. orangecrush Tuesday #5

THANK YOU!!!!!! 💙💙💙💙💙 LiberalLoner Tuesday #12

Also, my understanding is that there are combat roles meadowlander Tuesday #22

My understanding orangecrush Tuesday #23

Civilian companies have to prove the fitness exam is consistent with actual job duties. Irish_Dem Tuesday #4

All it is, is the Army Combat Fitness Test with an event removed jmowreader Tuesday #7

"- tall soldiers throw the ball farther than short ones." 3catwoman3 Tuesday #9

no, that is not the only change, there is a more impactful change: Celerity Tuesday #10

This will impact few women Abnredleg Tuesday #11

Well, the NYT author and multiple DUers disagree with that take. Time will tell. Celerity Tuesday #14

They had originally planned to make the ACFT a single-scale test jmowreader Tuesday #16

"Brain before brawn". Does that mean that women are too smart to be cannon fodder? Ping Tung Tuesday #8

May god damn this mal-administration spanone Tuesday #13

This isn't the win the Trumpsters think it is. Aristus Tuesday #15

I would prefer it to be stated as a "gender" neutral physical test combined with an elocs Tuesday #17

Men have greater upper body strength & heavier bones & height. Women have greater endurance... Hekate Tuesday #18

Nancy Wake..and others... times when having a woman on the team is an advantage lostnfound Tuesday #20

Yes indeed Hekate Tuesday #21

This orangecrush Tuesday #24

Sick bastards. Passages Tuesday #19