Army women flunking first try at gender-neutral fitness test
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
Chad Groening, Billy Davis (OneNewsNow.com)
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The U.S. Army, currently stuck in a quagmire over a rigorous new physical fitness test, needs to get its act together and make sure soldiers are ready for combat, says a national security expert.
The rollout of the Army Combat Fitness Test in 2019 hit a roadblock when initial test scores showed 65% of women failed it compared to 10% of men.
The new ACFT replaced the Army’s three-event Army Physical Fitness Test, which graded soldiers according to sex and age, but the alarming failure rate caused an uproar among Democrat lawmakers who used a 2021 Pentagon spending bill to order a halt to scoring soldiers according to the new physical test. A study of the test is being done by the RAND Corp.
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US Army Reviews Gender-Neutral Combat Fitness Test
The test contains six events: a maximum deadlift, standing power throw, hand-release push-ups, a sprint, drag and carry, leg tuck, and a two-mile run. 1 minute read
The US Army is reviewing its gender-neutral fitness test and could revamp it to factor in the “biological differences” between men and women.
The development comes weeks after the US Congress directed the army to halt the six-event Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) until a study by a non-Pentagon body could assess its impact.
Female Soldiers Struggle to Clear Test
Congress reportedly cited initial army data showing that women fail the test at a much higher rate than men (65 percent to 10 percent), particularly the leg tuck event, which requires soldiers to hang from a pull-up bar and tuck their legs up to their chins.
Female Soldiers Are Failing at Alarming Rates
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