>Fitness in the Army is so integral to your job,” said Captain Griest, adding that she wrote her piece* because “women in combat arms are pretty underrepresented.” She wanted to give them a voice. >The Army needs to determine “what is needed on a battlefield and just hold everyone to that standard,” she said. “For instance, I want a soldier to be able to pull their body over an obstacle in the infantry.” >She said she learned to dead-lift far more weight than she ever imagined she could when properly coached. “I have heard people criticize me and say I have internalized misogyny,” she said. “I think I have a sense of internalized empowerment.” The fitness standards in the Army are a joke, and the Navy and Chair Force have even lower standards. The replacement for the APFT is supposed to be harder but already has been revised because too many females, especially female officers, could not pass the test.