Now, both male and female Marines will need to do 3 "dead hang" pull-ups.

Until now — with the decision to include women in combat unites — women only needed to hold a "flexed arm hang" for 15 seconds.

But... [t]o get a perfect grade, women will have to do only 8, compared with the 20 required for men.

“I don’t think it’s a very high bar,” said Capt. Ann G. Fox, a Marine Reserve officer who during her first deployment in 2004 worked with the Iraqi Army and who thinks women could do better if it was required of them. “I think the test should be the same as the men 20 pull-ups. People train to what they’re tested on."