C-Mag wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:C-Mag wrote:
ONCE.................... I graduated High School at 6' and 205 I got taped all the damn time. AR 600-9, if your fit it's pretty much a breeze. There are Mesomorphs with a square body that just are kind of fucked. Had a guy we called Shrek, same body, no 3 guys could out work him in a day, but the tape test eventually got him.
It's because the tape test is flawed. I wasn't supposed to be taped. I was five, ten. One hundred fifty pounds. The tape test said I had zero body fat, and the guys taping me didn't understand why. I thought it was funny.
It's seriously flawed. Simple solution. Make a tough standard PT Test and drop the stupid tape test, it's a proportion test.
I've always had trouble with male/female and age progression of the PT Test. PT test should be by the job you perform. What the fuck do I care if the guy doing my pay can run 2 miles in 16 minutes, I don't. But I definitely want the Infantry to be able to do it, and I don't care if they are male, female or 50 years old.
That shit went out the window when they merged support ranks with combat ranks.
The minute the army decided that spoons could hold the same rank as grunts, everything was fucked.
I'll add this to the military thread,
New Pentagon rule bans ‘offensive jokes’ and harassing behavior
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, known for his own use of colorful language to inspire the troops, said a new Pentagon policy targeting offensive language and behavior should not be interpreted as a draconian end to military camaraderie.
“You have to adapt to your times,” Mattis said. “There’s a rough, good humor among soldiers. We all know that. But I have never seen rough good humor countenance or in any way frame something that’s disgusting, repellent or something like that.”
On Thursday the Pentagon released Department of Defense Instruction 1020.03, “Harassment Prevention and Response in the Armed Forces.” The 23-page instruction sets a common framework to guide each of the services’ policies to prevent all types of harassment, ranging from offensive jokes to sexual harassment.
According to the instruction, “harassment may include offensive jokes, epithets, ridicule or mockery, insults or put-downs,” as well as physical threats or racially-tinged interactions that “creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.”
“I don’t want to lose all sense of humor in the military,” Mattis said. “But I have never seen an ounce of belief in the military that you can denigrate someone.”
The services and DoD components are required to provide their implementation plans in the next 60 days, Pentagon Press Secretary Dana White said.
“We are doing this because we owe our all-volunteer force every protection,” White said.
Mattis is a pussy, and a pussy enabler. Is it any wonder that every soldier wants the fuck out of the military?
