I know this is a tough question, and I am a marine instead of an Army vet...but here goes: "How many GUYS pass the exam?"
I ask this because, now in my 60's, I (still) teach a form of combat karate. Last Saturday I attended an "away" class which included 5 of my fellow geezers (30's-70's) and three ranks of beginners-through intermediates of all ages from 11 up.
At the lunch all of us geezers went to afterward, the topic of "today's kids" came up. They cannot do push-ups at ALL when they start. At a point when we were (decades ago) at their level, we were able to do 10 "corrective" push-ups on our KNUCKLES pretty much ON DEMAND (whenever we hosed up something for the third time after being corrected twice. This inability includes the young men...not just the women.
THEN (and I won't e-ven) go to active duty...the topic of "making pain our friend" came up. Same status, different issue. I guess it's part of the push-up thing...two-knuckle pushups were NEVER without pain. Yet I have a young student who recently stated he wants to go SOC. I pointedly pulled him aside and explained he needs to step up his game. Not so much to achieve "this or that belt" before he goes SOC, but he needs to learn to accept and deal with pain, "on the move."
So when we say 84% of WOMEN don't pass an Army Combat test, how many of todays soy-boi GUYS pass it on their first try?
Do I want women in combat roles? Let me get back to you on that.
I know this is a tough question, and I am a marine instead of an Army vet...but here goes: "How many GUYS pass the exam?"
I ask this because, now in my 60's, I (still) teach a form of combat karate. Last Saturday I attended an "away" class which included 5 of my fellow geezers (30's-70's) and three ranks of beginners-through intermediates of all ages from 11 up.
At the lunch all of us geezers went to afterward, the topic of "today's kids" came up. They cannot do push-ups at ALL when they start. At a point when we were (decades ago) at their level, we were able to do 10 "corrective" push-ups on our KNUCKLES pretty much ON DEMAND (whenever we hosed up something for the third time after being corrected twice. This inability includes the young men...not just the women.
THEN (and I won't e-ven) go to active duty...the topic of "making pain our friend" came up. Same status, different issue. I guess it's part of the push-up thing...two-knuckle pushups were NEVER without pain. Yet I have a young student who recently stated he wants to go SOC. I pointedly pulled him aside and explained he needs to step up his game. Not so much to achieve "this or that belt" before he goes SOC, but he needs to learn to accept and deal with pain, "on the move."
So when we say 84% of WOMEN don't pass an Army Combat test, how many of todays soy-boi GUYS pass it on their first try?
Do I want women in combat roles? Let me get back to you on that.