re: Army Considers Return to Gendered Fitness Test as Equality Experiment Fails Miserably

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Yeah this has nothing to do with combat effectiveness. I'm in an infantry unit now, and while we don't have anyone openly gay with us, I have worked along side openly gay soldiers and it never once effected the mission.

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99.5% of the people constantly tearing down today's military on this site have never set foot in a combat arms unit. They listen to what their neighbor who got discharged in BCT says as though that's gospel, or read stories like this one and equate that to the military being soft.

As of early June, less than half of the AD Army had taken a diagnostic ACFT, and that number drops to less than 20% for the RC. The Army is amassing these numbers to try and decide what to do with it, and what changes to make, when it goes live next spring. Still a long way to go, and a lot of data to be gathered before this can be considered a failure. I will say, if you can score a 580+ on this, you are serious about your fitness. I'm sure there are some of those cross-fit type females who can do that, but they are few and far between.