For years, the Marine Corps gave women the option of doing an embarrassingly easy “flexed-arm hang” rather than the traditional pullups expected of men on the force-wide physical fitness test.
That ended in January when the Corps changed the PFT rules.
And the results? Women are doing a lot of pullups. More than half of the women who did pullups maxed out their PFT test score (meaning they did at least seven pullups).
After all the hand wringing over the past several years about the role of women in the military, it’s worth taking a moment to applaud what the Marines have done with their fitness test — and how female Marines are performing.
It‘s only going to add momentum to the argument that women’s fitness standards should be identical to men’s.
Many women are the strongest advocates for that, saying that meeting the same standards as men will lead to equal treatment.
The crew of the Research Vessel Petrel, led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is on a roll.
The Defense Department on March 8 announced that troops deployed to Niger, Mali and northern Cameroon qualify to receive imminent danger pay/hostile fire pay, retroactive to June 7, 2017.
The other services should pay attention.
The daggers flew this weekend when a disparaging military rant by a California high school teacher went viral.
A technical sergeant from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada came under fire recently after she shared a racially-charged, expletive-laced rant to Facebook.
"Our head is above water, but I'm not sure for how long," one soldier said of his family.
The notable military figures were included among 17 individuals being granted the nation's highest civilian honor.
Some 6,000 people, including Navy, Army and Air Force families, suffered nausea, headaches, rashes and other symptoms.
Some schools have reported significant problems in navigating recent changes to veterans education benefits.
Some of the highest concentrations of PFAS chemicals in the country have been found at and around military bases.
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