I know the article is old.
Anyone served/serving who can comment on this?
- US Army will no longer require recruits to show adequate hand grenade skills
- Change is being made because many enlistees 'can’t throw it far enough'
- Recruits also won't be required to pass land navigation course to graduate
- Army's redesign of Basic Combat Training is aimed at instilling more discipline
- Many on Twitter used the development to attack influx of female enlistees
- But the US Army denied that the change had anything to do with gender
It’s more of an upper body strength issue. I’m not sure I could throw a grenade 30m right now because I’m so out of shape and not in good health, but I’m not that young anymore either. But this is part of why someone my age isn’t accepted as a recruit. Just wait until some SJWs start calling this “ageist” and demand the old folks get recruited as infantry grunts.
I always thought it was a difference in the construction of men's and women's shoulders, but strength is surly a big part of it.
it's 3 things all at once:
I hadn’t thought of that, but I know there are some non-obvious differences between men and women. Like for example, according to research I’ve read women effectively have a wider field of view and men have a narrower one and it has something to do with how dispersed the fovea is. That means women should be better at spotting threats earlier than men, but men would be better at something else like maybe aiming at details. There are also differences in visual processing like this https://www.livescience.com/22894-men-and-women-see-things-differently.html
Maybe the underhand pitching in women’s softball has something to do with the shoulder thing you’re talking about.
Interesting. Definitely written before full blown marxists takeover.
Interesting! That's a good reason why a man and a woman can make a good team. But throwing a grenade together would be tricky.