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VIDEO: All-Female SWAT Team Fails Basic Obstacle Course
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I’m actually impressed with how long they were able to hang on to the pulley thing. With weapons and gear, that’s no small feat. I’d probably last 10 seconds these days.
There are definitely a lot of women that can't physically do as well as men, but I actually know women on SWAT/SRT teams that have to do the same tests as men to be there.
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"And the first one to get wet. . . . " I get that announcer saying that often when I walk into a room full of women.
AJ only showed ONE ob-stackul???? C'mon. I wanna see how they do overall.
Lastly - I bet that water was. . . . . Chile.
AJ only showed ONE ob-stackul???? C'mon. I wanna see how they do overall.
Lastly - I bet that water was. . . . . Chile.
-This is a complicated obstacle, how/why would we consider this a "basic" obstacle course when it objectively and obviously isn't?
-Why would a police force even bother training for such an obstacle as part of normal work duties? Who the f*** is rappelling across lines into shit? What's the point of it? To display people know how to use momentum to get across it? Who gives a shit?
-They showed an impressive amount of grip strength for females. The bottom 10% of men have stronger hands than the top 10% of females. This females display considerable grip strength for their body type. This is a good thing and it's worth pointing out.
I would think the standards are too low than. That said, many physical standards are too high also. It's a very big "it depends."
I remember reading about Denmark's Frogman program and their PT entry requirements. I just laughed. They were insane. Completely ridiculous standards that would in reality provide minimal gain over traditional PT requirements.
On the other side of that coin we have what the US Army has been trying to do for about a decade, which is make a system that both males and females have to use while simultaneously ensuring X% of females are able to pass the line MOS standards. Which is sorta a trainwreck. Any male should be able to pass it with minimal/no preparation. That's bad.
-Why would a police force even bother training for such an obstacle as part of normal work duties? Who the f*** is rappelling across lines into shit? What's the point of it? To display people know how to use momentum to get across it? Who gives a shit?
-They showed an impressive amount of grip strength for females. The bottom 10% of men have stronger hands than the top 10% of females. This females display considerable grip strength for their body type. This is a good thing and it's worth pointing out.
I would think the standards are too low than. That said, many physical standards are too high also. It's a very big "it depends."
I remember reading about Denmark's Frogman program and their PT entry requirements. I just laughed. They were insane. Completely ridiculous standards that would in reality provide minimal gain over traditional PT requirements.
On the other side of that coin we have what the US Army has been trying to do for about a decade, which is make a system that both males and females have to use while simultaneously ensuring X% of females are able to pass the line MOS standards. Which is sorta a trainwreck. Any male should be able to pass it with minimal/no preparation. That's bad.
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Sammich.
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Wait. You mean SWAT doesn't regularly zipline over ob-stackulz like they're on Wipeout???? I'm totally bagging my application now. Damn. Fun obstacles and shooting people. What was there NOT to love?
With the ladies from the swat team?
Does this mean you’ll be selling off your grapnel launcher?
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Yes. But I'm keeping my concussion grenades.
Did you know that there was a MAJOR difference between allied pineapple grenades and German tater-masher grenades in WWII???? I don't know how I never knew this.
Pinepples, as we all know, are shrapnel grenades. Fling bits of iron in all sorts of directions. Tater-mashers are concussion grenades. Not shrapnel grenades.
Makes me go and watch all sorts of WWII movies again - maybe Audie Murphy COULD have gotten out of that pillbox after that grenade went off or whatever. (Not real Audie - actor-Audie)
You know what you see in Audie Murphy's "To Hell and Back"? US grenades smoking before they explode after the timer fuse is fired. Every movie I've ever seen other than that one omits that detail. Not saying no other movies have it, I just haven't seen one that does.
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Hit the gym then that is not ok
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Read the second paragraph:
Grenades
In World War I, hand grenades were also known as “hand bombs.” The general philosophy for their use in the fighting armies was that grenades could kill the enemy underground or behind cover.
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Ok. Post physique dude
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