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In fact, before the Women's Army Corps was dissolved in 1978, some Pentagon flunky insisted on drawing up a set of standards for the Army Physical Readiness Test that were lower for women than for men, over the outraged protests of female service members. They didn't want the lower standards, but the Pentagon kept them as a way showing that women were "weaker" than men.

This resulted in additional decades before women would be allowed to serve in combat positions.