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By form erer marine captain vernice. let me start with you, if i can. you've been through boot camp and you're not surprise that more than half of the women couldn't actually do the three pull ups, why is that? >> well, if you look at the average age of the women coming in, it's after high school. when i first went to college, i wanted to get into body building and working out. i majored in exercise science. i couldn't do a pull up. i couldn't do a chin up. i had to work hard add it. it didn't surprise me when the stud decame out knowing over half couldn't pass. at a certain point when i worke...

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Don't set standards without backing it up and ensuring the females are cape able and able before it is an embarrassment to the corps. >> what do you expect? they didn't pick three pull-ups out of the air. it was the minimum standard for men. if you demand equality rather than lower the standard you go to the male minimum standard of three pull-ups. if you want men and women treated the same way which is what the military, pentagon, marine corps demand you won't lower the standard. go to the minimum standard for men of three pull-ups. we are now reaping what we sow and 50% of women aren't passi...

Like i said, when i first went through officer candidate school, i was able to do about nine to ten pullups. at the end of my 13 weeks, i could do less than when i first started because in the beginning, that training regular minute really breaks the body down. they are building you up endurance wise but strength-wise women need more time to build the upper body strength. the pullups are one way to measure upper body strength. >> and to measure overall fitness, as well. so with that in mind, captain jacob, back in the day of teddy roosevelt, there were recommendations that, you know, an office...

But, you know, the training that the infantry goes through is job specific training that's geared towards developing the skills necessary to survive on the battle field. pullups and running and crunches are a measure of overall fitness. the two are related but i never filled out a mission profile and picked a guy to go on a mission because he could do 14 pullups and the other can do ten. >> there are issues like scaling a wall and climbing up ropes, lifting and carrying heavy ammunitions and theater. those are all real challenges that in war men and women have to function properly. >> absolute...