Listen as Larry spoke with Jessie Jane Duff, Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps (ret) and Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, regarding the lowering of standards for basic training, President Trump’s transgender military policy and more.

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

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.

‘What we have found is it is taking far, far too much time,’ said Maj. Gen. Malcolm Frost, the commanding general of the US Army Center of Initial Military Training. [Read More]

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