The Army’s search for gender-neutral fitness standards continues

Thank you my friend MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for making us aware via the perspective from armytimes.com auther Meghann Myers that the U.S. Army's search for gender-neutral fitness standards continues.

As a member of the USMAPS class of 1976 and the USMA class of 1980, I expereinced the U.S Army's dedication to enable women to be military servie academy cadets, midshippmen, etc. A lot of scientific knowledge and testing to ensure that standards for women cadets was sufficient to be hold them to standards equivelent to male cadets.

By the way, I was a USMA cadet when this movie was filmed at West Point.

Women of West Point (1979) Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUZvKZjs1UI


FYI MCPO Hilary Kunz CPL Douglas Chrysler CWO3 Dave Alcantara Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SFC William Farrell GySgt Jack Wallace SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D SSG Donald H "Don" Bates SPC Michael Terrell SPC Woody Bullard CPL Ronald Keyes JrCMDCM John F. "Doc" Bradshaw PO3 Edward Riddle SPC Bob Ridley SrA Ronald Moore PO1 Jeff Chandler MSG Roy CheeverSPC Nancy Greene

Still looking for something that generates an equal outcome. Good luck with that, standards are standards.

“ The Army does have an existing measure of combat readiness in its expert badges. The Expert Infantryman Badge, Expert Field Medical Badge and the catch-all Expert Soldier Badge all have a gender-neutral, age-neutral, pass-fail grading system.”

I find this statement from the article laughable. The expert badges aren’t a measure of combat readiness; they are an exercise is basic-level fitness and memorization. They are an utter waste of funding and manpower in an era of endless continuing resolutions, where COCOM commanders have annual unfunded mission-essential priorities.