THINK YOU CAN BE A MARINE?

• So you want to be one of the few and the proud in the U.S. Marine Corps?

Getting into a combat job requires recruits to pass a new set of physical standards that were put into place as part of the move to allow women to compete for front line posts.

How do you measure up?

INITIAL STRENGTH TEST FOR INCOMING RECRUITS

Two pull-ups (for men) or a flexed arm hang for at least 12 seconds (for women)

44 crunches in two minutes

2.4 kilometre run in 13:30 minutes (men) or 15 minutes (women)

FOR COMBAT JOBS

Three pull-ups (men and women)

44 crunches in two minutes

45 lifts of a 13-kg (30 lb.) ammunition can in two minutes

2.4 km run in 13:30 minutes

CLASSIFICATION STANDARD TEST FOR COMBAT JOBS

Six pull-ups Five km run in no more than 24:51 minutes

60 lifts of a 13-kg (30 lb.) ammunition can

Movement to contact test in 3:26 minutes, including a half-mile run in combat boots

Manoeuvre under fire test in 3:12 minutes, including belly crawl, ammunition can carry, evacuate a casualty, grenade throw

COMBAT JOB SPECIFIC TESTING

Scale a 1.42-metre wall carrying a rifle and wearing a fighting load in 30 seconds

While wearing fighting load and carrying rifle and 60 mm mortar, rush for 200 metres through an agility course in 1:45 minutes

Clean-and-press 52kg (115 lb.) Olympic bar

Deadlift and hold 150-pound Olympic bar at knuckle height for 30 seconds

Run 20 kilometres with rifle while wearing reconnaissance gear in three hours

Disassemble/ assemble an M242 25 mm automatic gun in 3:21 minutes