I'm not going to down vote you over it because most people outside the military don't know. But the Army just spent 10 years making a fitness test that more closely resembles combat tasks. Hegseth is not saying this in good faith.
That's good for a few paychecks in the black couch industry...
They were doing appointments according to C-Span.
They still only have 20 percent of the country. After years. At this rate they will run out of people before Ukraine runs out of territory.
Europe has 450 million people. It will be easier for them than Russia with 146 million people. Stop spreading FUD.
As we all know, repeatedly drafting several divisions worth of men is a sign you're winning the war...
Oh the current standards in the US military are absolutely enough to make sure women can carry their load. Hegseth is a massive misogynist who believes women shouldn't be in combat for all kinds of unscientific reasons.
Unconscious person in a building gets dragged out. But your gut feeling is right. A fighting unit needs 3 times the people behind it keeping it going. And units already routinely send the people they don't want to use on the front line to fetch food and whatnot for everyone else.
Because standards are first and foremost about maintaining a healthy force. Then they find a number that allows for being healthy and operating in combat. That's the minimum and you get points for going above that, and discharged for not meeting it. I guarantee you they aren't keeping women around as a DEI thing where they're only equal on paper.
You forgot step 4.5, starve and under train 90 percent of your military while a super loyal 10 percent get the best training and rations in a Republican Guard.
The Infantry already has a soft standard of scoring higher than minimum. You meet that or you get extra PT, no school slots, no promotions, and may even get transferred out of combat units. But also we've seen guys that did 180 (the minimum in 2003) operate perfectly fine in combat. This canard that combat arms needs more than a file clerk is just being used to exclude women. The minimum is actually high enough to operate in combat. Units are doing the higher soft standard because it's a way to operate at a higher level. But they will deploy someone doing a 180 on their test and put them in a squad that's fighting in a city after an 8km foot movement. Heck we would rather someone who scored the minimum but can walk with their gear than someone who scored higher but didn't have that walking endurance.
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The ability to move without squeaking.