should men and women have same physical requirements?

[Anonymous]

I have recently been discharged for knee injury.**I have returned to school and am doing a persuasion speech.**I need to get opinions on whether women should have the same physical requirments to do the same job as men in the military.**men are required to to 60 sit ups to 52 required for women; men have to do 51 pushups as opposed to 24 for women and the 1.5 mile run is 11 min. for men and 15 min. for women.**If this was equal for both would that help gain more respect for women.**I am anxious t see replies from all sexes adn all point of views.**Thank you.



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wompa321@prodigy.net

[Anonymous]

: I have recently been discharged for knee injury.**I have returned to school and am doing a persuasion speech.**I need to get opinions on whether women should have the same physical requirments to do the same job as men in the military.**men are required to to 60 sit ups to 52 required for women; men have to do 51 pushups as opposed to 24 for women and the 1.5 mile run is 11 min. for men and 15 min. for women.**If this was equal for both would that help gain more respect for women.**I am anxious t see replies from all sexes adn all point of views.**Thank you.Hi Clair,I might catch a little criticism for this, but my opinion is as follows.**Men and women are two completely different animals.**Men are genetically programmed with high testosterone levels, high muscle growth hormones, larger body frame and some would say a smaller brain :).**In general, these**biological facts make running 1.5 miles easier for men due to larger natural muscle mass.**Undoubtably there are thousands of women who are stronger and faster than I am; but in general terms the male body is designed for strength and size.** For this simple reason, I feel the playing field must be leveled for women regarding boot camp requirements.




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dna@tamu.edu

[Anonymous]

Yes they should be the same, if the women want to do the same jobs as the men they should have to meet the same requirements all the way around.**I have served in the military and worked in what was always traditionally men's jobs most of my life. I always had to prove myself in the jobs because of the women that had gotten the job before that could not do and did not want to do the exact same job, but want the title and the same pay.**If you want the job and all that goes with it, be ready to meet the same requirements as all others.: I have recently been discharged for knee injury.**I have returned to school and am doing a persuasion speech.**I need to get opinions on whether women should have the same physical requirments to do the same job as men in the military.**men are required to to 60 sit ups to 52 required for women; men have to do 51 pushups as opposed to 24 for women and the 1.5 mile run is 11 min. for men and 15 min. for women.**If this was equal for both would that help gain more respect for women.**I am anxious t see replies from all sexes adn all point of views.**Thank you.



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gloria@digitalexp.com

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Hi Clair,I agree with you, but David, I won't be giving you any flack either.**Yes, David, I feel men &amp; women's bodies are different, and that men usually have more physical strength.**My point is that this should be irrelevant!**Make the tests the same, make them relevant, and if more men than women end up in a particularly physical rating, then that's appropriate!**Base the test on requirements and performance, not certain abstract criteria with groupings for age and sex.**Yes, Clair, I feel the standards should be the same, because we're doing the same job, and I know my outstanding feels &quot;cheap&quot; if it's not the same minimum score as the guys'.**I think the questions that need to be asked are: 1) What are we testing? and 2) Why?**What our answers should be (and aren't right now) are:1) Fitness and strength**** 2) To ensure everybody's healthy and that they can do the job at hand.**To clarify, here's the How:**I think we need 2 tests. First, a fitness test, which should involve some gauge of cardio-vascular fitness and have nothing to do with the distance somebody can run or how many pushups they can do, but how FIT they are.**Everyone should have the same fitness standard. I understand there are tests out there now involving heart rates (and I don't know what else) that can do just that.**The second test should be some simple tests like... the ability to carry a charged CO2 bottle a certain distance, or to pull a shore power cable a certain distance.**There should be some strength tests everyone must pass (like the CO2 bottle) and some that would be rating specific.**For example, a Saturation Diver, a Hull Technician, an Electronics Technician and a Yoeman should all have very different physical requirements.**Those requirements, though, should be the same within the rating for everyone, regardless of sex.**They have ASVAB scores to determine if somebody can enter a rating based on their test scores.**Shouldn't physcial requirements be handled the same way?**And why should sex have anything to do with those physical standards?**



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