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"I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men" - Pete Hegseth, defense secretary

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This video spins me up. I've seen drill sergeants go nuts when soldiers try to fake pull-ups like this. You must extend arms all the way down or you don't get credit. At least those were the rules back in my day.

He can't even refer to women as women. "Females" Women hate that shit. Men, stop doing that. It is dehumanizing. It's like you regard us as animals. Female leopard Female snake Female cockroach WE ARE WOMEN.

I can’t stop laughing 🤣 I’m a 56yo woman and can do a proper pull-up and proper push-up. Like the fit woman in the video. My exercise routine never looks as chaotic as Hegsbreath’s 😂🤣😂

Meanwhile, Hegseth demanded a MAKEUP ROOM. The price tag for the project was several thousand dollars at a time when the administration is searching for cost-cutting measures. But, he sure does have some pretty hair..

He’s doing what we called “girl pull ups”, with palms facing you. Easier than what the woman is doing, standard pull-ups with palms facing away. And she’s going all the way down, he’s not breaking the elbow bend. What a tool.

Well, dingleberry, you must not have grown up where I did, where we called them, as I noted, which also denotes my own personal experience, “girl pull ups”. But thank you for the MANSPLAINING. Women must love you.

If I was the PTI in charge with Hegseth he would repeating every single one of those things whatever they're supposed to be because they certainly aren't strict pull ups! Nil continue, nil continue. Elbows full extension to full extension, continue... But then again he cheats at everything.

Women & men are biologically different. The differences in physical standards are not "easier" or less for women. Specific repetitive things caused specific career impacting injuries in women. Standards were adjusted to be equal but safe from injury.

What a shameful day for America. A five time draft dodger and a preening talk show host who never faced combat lecturing Senior Generals who have seen war on how to conduct themselves in battle.

Note the difference in grip. He's got his hands turned so his palms are facing him. Those are "chin-ups". Not "pull-ups". Chin ups are way easier because they recruit primarily the large bicep muscles. She's doing pull-ups. Much more difficult because the biceps are less involved.

He’s a pig. To hear this arrogant drunken Fox News right wing talking head lecture men and women who devoted 3 or 4 decades to the military, who have forgotten more about military service than he will ever know, who earned their stars (unlike Trump’s white supremacist DEI hire, Hegseth) is galling.

Whatever "exercise" he tries to demonstrate*, it is not. Quite contrary to what she demonstrates: real power and body controll. * We called that monkey swing.

He wants to go back to battleships made of steel and use bullets instead of missiles and drones. He doesn't understand modern warfare technologies.