The Army Infantry Doesn't Just Need More Women. It Needs More Qualified Women
29 Mar 2021
Military.com | By Capt. Shaina Coss
Capt. Shaina N. Coss was among the first 10 women to graduate from Ranger School and became the first female infantry officer to serve in the 75th Ranger Regiment in 2018. She is currently serving on active duty at the U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School in Quantico, Va.
Recent attention surrounding the Army Combat Fitness Test, or ACFT, produced a scornful public response shaming the Army into lowering physical standards to accommodate the more than 50% of women who failed to meet the minimum requirements during initial testing.
Resulting backlash encouraged the service to suspend its stratified, color-coded grading system, which had required the highest fitness standards for combat arms (black) and high standards for jobs like Military Police (gray). Both standards were replaced with a lower minimum (gold) for all soldiers regardless of military occupational specialty, or MOS, in the ACFT 3.0 version.
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