Re: should women be required to register for selective service?

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They DON'T have to be equal to the man. The Armed Services

Jun 14, 2021, 9:30 AM

have different physical testing pass/fail standards for men and women.

The Army tried "gender neutral" physical testing for awhile, but have reverted to separate standards, as most of the women were washing out. Article from March 22, 2021 excerpted below.

"The Army, in its latest Combat Fitness Test, is reinstituting separate measures for men’s and women’s performance, admitting a single standard cannot be achieved.

Changes to the physical fitness test began a decade ago when soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan were failing at basic battlefield tasks. The Army, at first, sought a gender-neutral test but saw increasing rates of failure among female soldiers. In the newest version, dubbed ACFT 3.0, a tiered system will be tested that awards soldiers in five performance categories on a curve against their same-gender peers.

"It accounts for the recognized physiological differences between men and women and removes the direct competition between men and women in the service," Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, commanding general of the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, told reporters Monday.

Green, bronze, silver, gold, and platinum categories would be based on how well the soldier performs in his or her gender groups. For example, a platinum category might represent the top 1% of scores and the green, the lowest 50%."