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Posted: 3/4/2020 2:19:45 PM EST

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Posted: 3/4/2020 2:22:06 PM EST

[#1]

no shit

I wonder how much this study cost....

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:22:17 PM EST

[#2]

My damned near 6’ wife has no interest in ranger school, sorry, not sorry.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:22:54 PM EST

[#3]

Um...yeah?

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:24:36 PM EST

[#4]

Men are usually taller than women right?

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Posted: 3/4/2020 2:24:37 PM EST

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Posted: 3/4/2020 2:30:08 PM EST

[#6]

"suggesting that the Army should consider amending its physical standards for women. ?

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Seriously? Fuck that.

If I'm wounded I want someone to be able to haul my ass out, not drag me, give up 20ft later and ask another dude to do it.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:30:09 PM EST

[#7]

Is that why people in the worlds strongest man competition are always short and lean

Seems like at some point this would be common sense.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:30:36 PM EST

[#8]

I.E. women built closer to men outperform women built like women

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:31:36 PM EST

[#9]

Um...

Okay?

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:31:59 PM EST

[#10]

I have nothing of value to add to the first post, but sure am glad these geniuses are in charge!

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:33:02 PM EST

[#11]

What if they are women that used to be men? Sarah-N-Tune can help.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:33:21 PM EST

[#12]

Big, muscular people are stronger and more powerful than small skinny people.

Damn, who would of thunk it?

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:34:37 PM EST

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Big, muscular people are stronger and more powerful than small skinny people.

Damn, who would of thunk it?

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"Faster runners complete race ahead of their slower counterparts: scientists baffled"

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:36:35 PM EST

[#14]

Muscles matter, story at 11.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:36:54 PM EST

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Is that why people in the worlds strongest man competition are always short and lean

Seems like at some point this would be common sense.

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Common sense is not as common as the name would imply.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:37:39 PM EST

[#16]

Movies have taught me that 4'11 100 lb females can beat 3-4 6' 250 lb males in a fight easily.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:41:45 PM EST

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Big, muscular people are stronger and more powerful than small skinny people.

Damn, who would of thunk it?

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I think the real issue here is that the current height and weight standards discriminate against the very body types that are better at those tasks. Men are similarly affected, but probably not as much, since so many smaller men can still meet fixed standards and the guys built like “strong man” competitors either fight body fat restrictions all their career, or get out early. With women, though, when everyone is tripping over themselves to prove they can make it, this issue is much more in the forefront. This petite little marathon runners and cross fitters might be great at body weight exercises, but they don’t have much body weight.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:42:25 PM EST

[#18]

But men can be strong and run....

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:42:26 PM EST

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Posted: 3/4/2020 2:52:35 PM EST

[#20]

My own intense, multi-year research shows that short little spinners outperform amazons sexually.

I didn't even need to spend any .gov money to figure that out.

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:53:58 PM EST

[#21]

You don’t say

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:57:04 PM EST

[#22]

New shit has come to light!

Posted: 3/4/2020 2:57:29 PM EST

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Posted: 3/4/2020 3:01:11 PM EST

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In short, Army needs meaty women capable of causing death by snu-snu.

Got it.

Amazons; we've known about this for some three thousand years.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:06:35 PM EST

[#25]

In my own personal observations tall women can indeed perform!!! ??

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:06:53 PM EST

[#26]

To say that body mass matters is sexism, pure and simple.

To say that body mass matters within the subset that comprises females.... well, that's just common sense.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:08:06 PM EST

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In my own personal observations tall women can indeed perform!!! ??

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In my own personal observations tall women can indeed perform!!! ??

My independent research agrees with your findings.

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My own intense, multi-year research shows that short little spinners outperform amazons sexually.

I didn't even need to spend any .gov money to figure that out.

My findings contradict yours. Compact-framed women were more prone to injury from vigorous activity.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:08:40 PM EST

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Movies have taught me that 4'11 100 lb females can beat 3-4 6' 250 lb males in a fight easily.

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movies?!

that's real life sir

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:09:32 PM EST

[#29]

Regardless of height, even very athletic women who work their ass off are weaker than the average man where it counts.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:10:33 PM EST

[#30]

How do they compare to their male counterparts?

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:11:24 PM EST

[#31]

But it is funny to see the 4’10 chick with a m249 almost dragging the muzzle in the dirt.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:11:30 PM EST

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Yeah, pretty much a common sense derp deep study.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:13:20 PM EST

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I think the real issue here is that the current height and weight standards discriminate against the very body types that are better at those tasks. Men are similarly affected, but probably not as much, since so many smaller men can still meet fixed standards and the guys built like “strong man” competitors either fight body fat restrictions all their career, or get out early. With women, though, when everyone is tripping over themselves to prove they can make it, this issue is much more in the forefront. This petite little marathon runners and cross fitters might be great at body weight exercises, but they don’t have much body weight.

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You just had to go and fucking do it, didn't you?

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:16:09 PM EST

[#34]

Thanks, Captain Obvious.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:18:07 PM EST

[#35]

No fucking shit. I want my tax money back.

ETA We give our military too much money and too much latitude on how that money is spent. Prove me wrong.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:23:20 PM EST

[#36]

The litter obstacle course at Fort Sam back in 1988 convinced me that women weren't cut out for some jobs in the military.

That and the fact they fell out on runs at much higher rates.

And the fact they struggled carrying two water cans or fuel cans up a hill.

And the fact they suck at the fireman's carry.

And the fact they much higher pregnancy rates than men when deployments crop up.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:24:14 PM EST

[#37]

In other breaking news, water is wet.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:25:25 PM EST

[#38]

Death by Snu Snu is best death!

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:27:40 PM EST

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But it is funny to see the 4'10 chick with a m249 almost dragging the muzzle in the dirt.

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Go on...that sounds like one of my fantasies

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:29:51 PM EST

[#40]

Only took $20,000,000 to find out!

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:37:22 PM EST

[#41]

So my 4x4 Nissan Frontier can haul and tow more than my Miata?

Bullshit.

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Posted: 3/4/2020 3:39:36 PM EST

[#42]

Wait, physical fitness and strength are important characteristics for an infantry person?

Who could have seen that coming???

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:45:58 PM EST

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The litter obstacle course at Fort Sam back in 1988 convinced me that women weren't cut out for some jobs in the military.

That and the fact they fell out on runs at much higher rates.

And the fact they struggled carrying two water cans or fuel cans up a hill.

And the fact they suck at the fireman's carry.

And the fact they much higher pregnancy rates than men when deployments crop up.

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Wow did you just make some memories come flooding back. I was at Fort Sam in '91 and I loved/hated that litter obstacle course. We had plenty of females in my baby 91b platoon but I must have lucked out. I don't remember ever having to run the course with a female as part of my team. That would have truly sucked. Our females were all pretty small and the course sucked enough running it with 3 other young bucks in great shape after basic.

I had to share my tracked aid station with a female medic during a couple training rotations at NTC and I can tell you who did all the donkey work and who had to ask any available male soldier to lend a hand when a litter patient needed unloading from an M113 or into a Hummer ambulance. Spoiler alert. It wasn't her.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:48:21 PM EST

[#44]

So........big gals are better at hauling sandbags? Good to know.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:50:46 PM EST

[#45]

Is that code for butch?

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:52:50 PM EST

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My own intense, multi-year research shows that short little spinners outperform amazons sexually.

I didn't even need to spend any .gov money to figure that out.

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Posted: 3/4/2020 3:54:26 PM EST

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I think the real issue here is that the current height and weight standards discriminate against the very body types that are better at those tasks. Men are similarly affected, but probably not as much, since so many smaller men can still meet fixed standards and the guys built like “strong man” competitors either fight body fat restrictions all their career, or get out early. With women, though, when everyone is tripping over themselves to prove they can make it, this issue is much more in the forefront. This petite little marathon runners and cross fitters might be great at body weight exercises, but they don’t have much body weight.

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Big, muscular people are stronger and more powerful than small skinny people.

Damn, who would of thunk it?

I think the real issue here is that the current height and weight standards discriminate against the very body types that are better at those tasks. Men are similarly affected, but probably not as much, since so many smaller men can still meet fixed standards and the guys built like “strong man” competitors either fight body fat restrictions all their career, or get out early. With women, though, when everyone is tripping over themselves to prove they can make it, this issue is much more in the forefront. This petite little marathon runners and cross fitters might be great at body weight exercises, but they don’t have much body weight.

I used to work with an old guy who spent a good portion of his military career worrying with anti-communist groups in central/South America. He was a smallish Mexican guy, and he thought the little mountain people from South America were the best soldiers ever. He said they weren’t as big and strong as Americans (couldn’t carry as much shit, which he said US military does too much of anyway), but they were tough as nails and you could work their asses all day and night and they complained less. The downside is that they couldn’t do shit independently and required constant NCO supervision.

Me, I have no clue, but it made for interesting stories.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:55:46 PM EST

[#48]

For the Army, perhaps. I like short women, 5' to 5'-4" or so.

Posted: 3/4/2020 3:56:47 PM EST

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I think the real issue here is that the current height and weight standards discriminate against the very body types that are better at those tasks. Men are similarly affected, but probably not as much, since so many smaller men can still meet fixed standards and the guys built like “strong man” competitors either fight body fat restrictions all their career, or get out early. With women, though, when everyone is tripping over themselves to prove they can make it, this issue is much more in the forefront. This petite little marathon runners and cross fitters might be great at body weight exercises, but they don’t have much body weight.

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The Air Force got rid of weight standards years ago and replaced them with performance and abdominal circumference standards. It's a more logical system than weight IMHO.

Posted: 3/4/2020 4:03:16 PM EST

[#50]

A linebacker outperforms others if they are big mother fuckers.
If they are 5'7 and 125 pounds they are not good linebackers a study finds

What we need to do is remove all the big men and keep the smaller men so the women have a chance.

That will fix it

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