How allowing women in combat is improving front line units.

[UK2K]

Long story short, the Marine Corps has developed new 'gender neutral' physical fitness standards to qualify for combat units. As a result of this new fitness test, unfit males are being weeded out.

So, in a roundabout way, allowing women into combat units is kind of helping the combat readiness of front line occupations, without actually having any women added to them.

On a side note, females do get special consideration as to which unit they are sent to and special accommodations are made for females who actually pass.

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[LJJ]

You are misinterpreting the statistics. It's not as if the unfit males who are weeded out by this test would pass the previous, more physically demanding physical test. In fact, many more men would fail the test.

The new "gender-neutral" test is obviously lowering physical requirements for male applicants, not the other way around. It's not like it used to be that 100% of males would pass the physical.

[UK2K]

You are misinterpreting the statistics. It's not as if the unfit males who are weeded out by this test would pass the previous, more physically demanding physical test. In fact, many more men would fail the test.

The new "gender-neutral" test is obviously lowering physical requirements for male applicants, not the other way around. It's not like it used to be that 100% of males would pass the physical.
The new test wasn't around before...

AFAIK, there was no additional test in boot camp to qualify for combat roles. If you passed boot camp and passed SOI, you were in. From what I am reading, this new test wasn't required before now.