It used to be a score under 50 required a waiver of competency. The navy no longer requires a ged or hs diploma to join, and have expunged fitness scores to retain recruits.
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I could rant for days about my former service. Needless to say, it has about half the number of ships it really needs, and about half the personnel. If I had my way, I'd double the Navy's budget, re-open every CONUS navy base and/or naval air station closed since the end of the cold war, set a hard limit on flag officer numbers to no more than that of actual commissioned ships, and set it's budget at 1% of GDP forever.
Don’t forget immediate oth discharges for female pregnancies, making women who do want to serve meet the same physical requirements not just for offs but actual labor requirements of the position. For shits and giggles we one time had about 12 females try to lift a zodiac, they couldn’t even lift it off the well deck let alone move it. This was about a decade ago now, it clearly hasn’t gotten better.
I'd go farther than that: single women get implanted birth control, no exceptions. If the women can't for medical reasons, she is discharged. Married women get implanted birth control while on deployable status only.
I'd get rid of all high year tenure, too, as well as allow servicemembers to opt out of advancement. Let people stay as long as they want, at the rank they want.
Too much work. Ban them from service and reconstitute the women's service corps. Just watch how few takers you get if they have to wear dresses and heels.