Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said the service will not lower physical standards as it works to comply with a Pentagon order to open all military jobs to women. (Staff Sgt. Teddy Wade / Army)
Odierno: Army Won't Lower Combat Standards For Women -- USA Today
The services have until January 2016 to integrate women into ground combat jobs.
WASHINGTON — The Army's top officer pledged Monday that the service will not lower physical standards as it works to comply with a Pentagon order to open all military jobs to women, including the infantry and other physically demanding "ground combat" fields.
"Whatever we do, we are not going to lower the standards," Gen. Raymond Odierno, the Army's chief of staff, told USA TODAY in an interview Monday. "The standards will be the same."
Critics have raised concerns that the pressure to open military jobs that are currently closed to women, such as tanks, infantry and special operations, would lead to pressure to change those standards.
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My Comment: For some reason I am skeptical that the standards will remain the same .... from my vantage point the Pentagon's political masters have made it very clear that they want to see women being given positions to serve in combat .... and with this pressure it is hard to see the the military chiefs not obliging them.
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