Women recruits do essentially the same training as men. In physical training, women do a flexed arm hang instead of pull-ups.
They must complete a three-mile run inside 31 minutes compared with 28 minutes for male recruits after 40 days' training.
The days when they had to wear "Montezuma Red" lipstick to tone in with the red cord of their red service cap and only did administrative jobs to "free a man to fight" are long gone.
They must achieve the same weapons skills as the male recruits and show the same "warrior spirit".
