With about 60 other recruits, I was being welcomed to basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Forget whether traditional adversative training produced a first-class military throughout our history. Partly, it's because today's youth are unaccustomed to discipline and authority, but mainly, it's because our lovelies want to be fighting persons. To accommodate them means the military must lower standards. The Navy finds that very few of its females can manage shipboard emergency tasks such as hefting fire hoses or carrying wounded personnel up a ladder on a stretcher.
Females pass physical training because of gender-norming.
Yellow lines are put on climbing ropes. Male trainees have to climb to the top, but for our lovelies the yellow line will do. As for those awful push-ups, men have to do 20 and women just six. At Quantico's Marine training facility, a visitor noticed a footstool placed in front of an eight-foot wall so no trainee would fail to climb over it. At Parris Island, it was discovered that 45 percent of female Marines were unable to throw a hand grenade far enough to avoid blowing themselves up.