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Old 10-02-2010, 08:15   #30
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Originally Posted by Blueboy View Post
I don't have a problem at all with bringing women into Special Forces----as long as the SFAS/SFQC standards are not altered one iota. If the standard calls for a minimum of ten dead-hang pull-ups, then by God that's the standard---for men and women. If the standard calls for the student ODA to carry rucksacks weighing in excess of 90 pounds each for a full mission profile-----and the only thing that a 100 lb female SF candidate can do is sit on her aformentioned rucksack----well then, sorry----there's the door. I'm sure there's a handful of women out there who could do this job, and it might do our Regiment some good to bring them into the ranks considering our evolving missions. This will probably happen at some point. And if we as a Regiment don't begin shaping the environment such that our standards are protected, then we will have failed.

I do, however, think that females should first be integrated into the conventional combat arms (infantry, armor, etc) before venturing into SF. Ya gotta walk before you can run.
Hey, I am with you, brother, but that will be an impossibility.

Look at Airborne School, and what happened to standards there when they allowed females to attend. If a man has to be able to do 50 push-ups or six pull-ups because he needs the strength to pull a riser, why is the requirement removed for women? Do they get special female only parachutes or do their parachutes work differently?

Why not evaluate all soldiers physical fitness on the same standards to start with? If a man needs 40 PU, 40 SU, and a 16:00 run time or better just to pass, why should we let females max the test with less?

The SFAS and SFQC have both had the standards changed at various times to allow more graduates. How long before they would be changed because few, if any females were being selected or graduated?

We already have women in SF units. I just don't think we need them on ODAs.

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