The U.S. Army Will No Longer Require Recruits To Show They Can Throw Hand Grenades 2 Meters In Order To Graduate

A soldier in basic combat training with a US Army infantry regiment tosses a practice grenade into a bunker on the hand grenade assault course at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on February 1, 2016

Daily Mail: US Army drops grenade throwing as a requirement to graduate because new recruits can't throw far enough (but do they mean women?)

* US Army will no longer require recruits to show adequate hand grenade skills
* Change is being made because many enlistees 'can’t throw it far enough'
* Recruits also won't be required to pass land navigation course to graduate
* Army's redesign of Basic Combat Training is aimed at instilling more discipline
* Many on Twitter used the development to attack influx of female enlistees
* But the US Army denied that the change had anything to do with gender

The United States Army will no longer require recruits to show they can throw hand grenades 25 meters because many of them can’t throw the explosive far enough, it revealed on Friday.

The Army says that starting next summer it will remove the requirement from its Basic Combat Training because it takes too much time to teach enlistees to throw grenades at an adequate distance.

The new policy was reported by Military.com.

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WNU Editor: This is a mistake. Also .... this is an eye-opener .... Low Recruit Discipline Prompts Army to Redesign Basic Training (Military.com)

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