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Old 01-06-2014, 21:16   #16
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If I remember correctly we had to do 10 pull ups in Jump school too...this prior to female paratroopers.
Yeah, they did theirs with their feet still on the ground.

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Old 01-06-2014, 23:22   #17
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Just to briefly address the Brietbart article, I'm sure I'm not the only one the distinctly remembers 17 some odd years ago when the Army changed its APFT grading scale such that the 17-21 age group performance standards became easier than the 21-28 age group standards. I think this lack of fitness issue has been around for some time, we've just been ignoring it to plus up manpower to meet wartime demand for 12+ years.
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Old 01-06-2014, 23:52   #18
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I remember running past the first three females going through jump school. They were two-three classes behind ours. They were still having remedial PT while their class was training and we were just starting out in Ground week. This was circa February 1975.

A couple years later, I was meeting up with some buds in the 82d (they flunked 300F-1) and there were those gals, now jump qualified. They were holding court on the steps of their very own exclusive purpose built brand fucking new barracks with a hoard of flea hounds sniffin around.

Another couple years later, one of those gals ends up in my ROTC class. Circa January 1979. She turned out a pretty good officer - as skanks go.

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Old 01-07-2014, 08:03   #19
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I She turned out a pretty good officer - as skanks go.
LMAO TOO FUNNY
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Old 01-07-2014, 16:47   #20
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Quit being a hater...Skanks perform a pretty serious function in our society!
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