So anyways, this happened a few days ago

 "This" being the ACFT, which was mandated years ago to be a gender-neutral test, being "diversified" so that girls can pass.

[A] female soldier between 17 and 21 years old now has to deadlift between 120 and 210 lbs. while a male soldier has to lift between 140 and 340 lbs. In that same age group, female soldiers have to run two miles between 23:22 and 15:29 minutes while male soldiers must perform that exercise between 22 and 13:22 minutes. That minimum run time for male soldiers is a minute longer than the previous version of the ACFT that the Army previously trialed, following data showing the run is by far the most failed event for both genders.

Leg tucks are totally eliminated as the event to measure core strength, with planks taking their place. … Test designers were concerned that the leg tuck doesn’t strictly measure core muscle strength but also requires that a soldier spend a lot of energy on upper-body and grip strength. …

“If I don’t have the grip strength, but have the core strength, I can’t do a leg tuck,” [Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston] said. “That was the reason for taking that out; we wanted to measure core strength.”

Most females couldn't do the Leg Tuck.  THAT is why they're taking it out.  You know who else couldn't do the leg tuck?  A bunch of fat ass bastards who were too lazy to do PT.

I've taken the ACFT a couple of times.  The worst event for me was the Sprint/Drag/Carry.  But guess what you have to do in combat?  Motions just like sprinting, dragging a buddy out of fire, and carrying ammo cans.  The Leg Tuck did measure a bit of upper body strength, but you weren't even doing a pull-up.  You just had to bend your arms enough to touch your elbows to your legs as you curled your body.  And girls couldn't do ONE leg tuck.

But women should totally be in combat units.  Yeah.  Sure.  Uh huh.  Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

So now we have a pussified PT test so that women can feel just as strong as men without having to actually meet the same standard.  Rawr.  Grrl power and shit.  Just don't ask a girl to actually do what a man has to do, because that's sexist or something.  But women should be in the infantry.

Fuck.  That.  Noise.

The ACFT was, in part, brought about BECAUSE women were allowed to join combat units, and the men in those units rightly pointed out that if you wanted to join their unit you should have to meet their standards.  And combat, ladies and gentlemen, is still a physical event, no matter what the pathetic fucktards in charge want to make-believe.  Not only to allowing lesser standards to prevail put people in danger, it also handicaps men who now have to face promotion boards against other Soldiers who DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW THE SAME STANDARD THEY DO.

You want to piss people off?  Yeah.  Oh, Soldier X got a 300 on their PT test!  They must be a super Soldier.  Except that Soldier X did fewer push-ups than Private Snuffy did, ran slower than Private Snuffy did, and somehow managed to outscore Private Snuffy on the PT test.  Huh.  Oh, and during field problems, while Private Snuffy was the fucking mule of the platoon, Soldier X was given the lightest load because she literally couldn't fucking carry the weight that was expected of male Soldiers.  Gosh, that builds unit cohesion, doesn't it?  

Do you trust someone who doesn't have to meet the same standard as everyone else?  I don't.  Not in combat.  If you can't get me ammo when I need ammo because you don't have the strength to haul the cans to my location, there's a problem.  If I have to push your ass over a wall because you don't have the strength to get yourself up and over?  That's a problem.  

I've been chewing on this ever since the news was released last week.  And all I can say is that eventually, the US Army is going to go back into combat, and it will not be as capable as it needs to be.  And this is by design.  This is being done on purpose.

Oh, and the Army is having to reduce its numbers because they can't meet their recruiting goals.  Gosh, I wonder what could have made the recruiting numbers drop so much?  Like there's TOTALLY no way that a vaccine mandate on top of so-called leadership caring more about Tranny training than war training, following a disaster of a pull-out from Afghanistan, and at least three more years of this so-called leadership might cause people to re-think their decision to enlist.  And as woke military leadership force their woke political views on to the military, fewer and fewer patriots are going to join up.

Nobody enlists to be told that they're evil because their white, or that a man is a woman if he says he is.

Did I mention that I'm glad I'm retiring?