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The Secretary of Defense really got the Times exercised yesterday. The Gray Lady ran a story yesterday huffingly headlined, “Hegseth Mandates Uniform Fitness Standards for Combat Roles.” In other words, he’s axing the easy tests for gals.
See if you can spot the off-the-chain cuckoo contradiction in the article’s first paragraph. I won’t even highlight it— let’s see if you can spot it yourself:
The Pentagon this week ordered the elimination of lower physical
fitness standards for women in combat units, a move that is likely
to hinder the recruitment and retention of women in particularly
dangerous military jobs.
Catch it? The Times strained to complain that, if the Army yanks watered-down fitness tests —tests designed to keep soldiers alive— fewer women will qualify for, wait for it, particularly dangerous jobs.
One wonders whether the Times simply hates the military, and secretly wants soldiers to die. ...
The story suggested a Marine example. In one test, male Marines must do 3 pull-ups or 34 push-ups in two minutes. Female soldiers can open their mascara cases ten times in sixty seconds or … just kidding! The fighting ladies strain to complete one push-up or eke out 15 push-ups in two minutes.
How do you suppose the guys feel about that? That’s not just a rhetorical question. Morale is an unquantifiable but critical war-fighting factor. Double standards devastate morale in the military same as everywhere else.
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