Early in basic training I learned to recognize Army BS as BS

“We’re not going to lower standards,” said Juliet Beyler, the Defense Department’s director of officer and enlisted personnel management. “It’s not a matter of lowering or raising standards. The key is to validate the standard to make sure it’s the right standard for the occupation.”

Translation: We’re going to lower standards.

‘Services promise combat roles for females by 2016’

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And know what? When it's all done, the services will say, "No, we did not lower standards. We tested existing standards and determined the standards were not validatiable, so we developed standards that could be validated as correct standards."