New Military Physical Tests: Standards, Merit, and Combat Readiness

Review of Military Standards

• 🎯 Every service, unit, and schoolhouse will conduct an immediate review of their physical standards.
• ⚠️ Standards altered since 2015, particularly those changed to ensure females could qualify in combat arms, must be returned to their original standard.
• 🚫 The manipulation of standards to hit racial quotas is also deemed unacceptable and must end.

Frameworks for Re-evaluation

• 🔑 Two basic frameworks are proposed for the review process: the 1990 test and the E6 test.
• 💡 The 1990 test asks what military standards were in 1990 and why they changed, questioning if changes were due to evolving combat needs or a softening of requirements.
• 🧠 The E6 test (or 03 test) assesses if changes simplify or complicate leadership, accountability, and lethality efforts, and if they empower staff sergeants and petty officers to get back to basics.

Combat Readiness and Gender Neutrality

• ⚡ War and the enemy do not care about gender, the weight of a rucksack, or the size of an artillery round; physical standards must be high and gender-neutral.
• ✅ This initiative is not about preventing women from serving, but ensuring that for jobs requiring physical power in combat, standards are rigorous.
• ⚖️ If women can meet these high standards, it's excellent; if not, the result is that weak men also won't qualify.
• 🤝 The ultimate goal is to ensure that every warrior alongside you in battle is truly physically capable of performing necessary actions under fire, a standard desired for future generations.