Via David "Shocked! Shocked, I say!"
The U.S. Air Force acknowledged it changed the "norms" on how a candidate advances through its elite Special Tactics training pipeline after an anonymous service member accused the military branch of making special accommodations to advance a female trainee who failed to meet the program's rigorous physical standards.
Typically a candidate who quits the training program is reassigned to his or her previous duty, but that wasn't the case with a female candidate who was kept in the program even after repeatedly quitting and failing to meet its physical standards, according to a memo published anonymously Wednesday morning and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Advancing a candidate who quit the program violated the Special Tactics community's "societal norms," the memo states.
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Courageous ST member! This has been going on in one AFSC (Air Force Specialty Code) or another since the mid-70's when having females in traditionally male career fields came into vogue. The next major leg in this direction was the practice of 'gender norming,' ie, lowering the standards for female performance from male performance with the same outcome, no matter the task. I see the practice has only gotten worse.
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Been there, done that. :)
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