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Cannot escape its share of the blame. when president obama withdrew all u.s. forces over the objections of our military leaders and commanders on the ground, many of us predicted that the vacuum would be filled by americas enemies and would emerge as a threat to u.s. national security interests." a majority of female recruits failed to complete the minimum of three pullups. the mandate was set to take effect january 1st. critics say the delay raises new questions about women in combat and whet...

He had everybody jump on the bar, women couldnt do it. i do cross fit. many women are doing cross fit now. they couldnt do buildups in the beginning, now they are pounding out the pullups. our mentality have to shift and people saying women arent capable or cant do it, its crazy, its trash. women are capable, women have been doing it and we have to push women harder, especially the ones that dont have as much body mass up top. we have to build them up. were more than capable and its been proven....

Few were able to do that, the marines are now allowing them to choose instead to hang on the bar with a fixed arm for about 15 seconds and still pass without doing any pullups. >> so is there a big difference between the women have to do and men had to do? i thought they both had a minimum of three. >> youre absolutely right. at the lower level, no difference. the men have a higher bar to get a perfect score and the men dont have an option of the fixed arm, the hanging. the marines will admit th...

Drop off the bar. >> joining me now for a fair and balanced debate, gunnery sergeant jesse jane duff, she served 20 years in the marine corps and an army veteran of the iraq and afghanistan wars who founded concerned veterans for america. they do not see eye to eye on this issue. jesse, you say the test is unfair. why? a lot of people think -- im not one of them -- three pull-ups? should be able to do it. >> i have a problem is what makes it unfair is the marine corps set an abstract standard wi...

The u.s. marines are postponing a mandatory requirement for recruits to do pull-ups. more than half the woman who tried to do three pull-ups failed. chris lawrence has more. >> reporter: military training can be excruciating at the highest levels. at the bare minimum, a marine has to be able to do three pull ups. >> i want to be sure every marine is maxing out the pull ups on pfds. >> more than half the female recruits couldnt do it. the marines are pushing back the day when it becomes mandatory...

Basically look for ways to train women to do this pull up better. i talked to a former marine officer that said at one point she could do five and the first one was the hardest because she had never done it before. when girls are in gym class in school, they dont have to do pull ups. when young women start working out, many of them, quite hard pull ups are not really in that mix. they are not trying to build those big pectoral and upper body muscles, so pull ups arent in the mix. i think what th...

Three pullups. >> if what captain armor is saying is true, its a training issue, captain jacob, youve been doing training and worked in that field. do you think women can change up the training and be up there with men? >> i served in the marines for ten years, four years enlisted and six years officer so i went through boot camp and the officer course and i was a company commander to an integrated training unit where half of them were women. you train your marine as a team and you train as you ...

>> generally im not for lowering standards. >> she is a form he marine corp officer who commanded troops in afghanistan. >> i was at one point able to do five but it was that first one that took me the longest to get to. >> she said women have to learn how to do pull-ups. something many have never done. >> experiment with different techniques. you figure out what other exercises to do. >> critics say the big push over pull-ups is part of a bigger problem. pressure from the white house to make th...

Drop off the bar. >> joining me now for a fair and balanced debate, gunnery sergeant jesse jane duff, she served 20 years in the marine corps and an army veteran of the iraq and afghanistan wars who founded concerned veterans for america. they do not see eye to eye on this issue. jesse, you say the test is unfair. why? a lot of people think -- im not one of them -- three pull-ups? should be able to do it. >> i have a problem is what makes it unfair is the marine corps set an abstract standard wi...

>> some people say women arent raised to work on upper body strength like men are. there may be a delay as women realize what they need to do in order to hold come bat roles. >> exactly. women have 20% less upper body strength. thats a reality. im not going to say women cannot do three pull-ups. i have a problem that when you set the goal and you dont have the proper training in place. youre having recruits go the to boot camp who are not receiving the training you need to look at yourself hard ...