Secretary Hegseth, the standards didn't change for women -- we met them

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Bethany Russell and Rita Graham, opinion contributors

On March 31, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth mandated that the Pentagon review its combat arms standards to ensure that the military is making no exceptions for female servicemembers.

This mandate echoes an unfounded belief that Hegseth has been voicing since his confirmation hearing: that women in the military achieved their successes because standards had been lowered for them.

But we were never accommodated, and our standards were never lowered.

Bethany is the 71st woman ever to earn the coveted Ranger tab. Rita was commissioned into the field artillery, a combat arms occupation, in the first full year of gender integration. If servicewomen were ever “accommodated” for, we certainly never saw it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-secretary-hegseth-standards-didn-143000146.html

Old Kegbreath gets called out.

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1. Sicko's.

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2. Any institution that puts Hegseth in charge has extremely low standards.

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3. Women have never asked for lower physical fitness standards than men in the Army.

In fact, before the Women's Army Corps was dissolved in 1978, some Pentagon flunky insisted on drawing up a set of standards for the Army Physical Readiness Test that were lower for women than for men, over the outraged protests of female service members. They didn't want the lower standards, but the Pentagon kept them as a way showing that women were "weaker" than men.

This resulted in additional decades before women would be allowed to serve in combat positions.