Gabriel said:
SERIOUSLY!? National Guard must be easy . . .
Except,
not.
Those are the standards for what you have to be able to do when you first arrive for in-phasing. Not what you have to be able to do by the end of basic training. In that respect, we match the regular Army exactly.
In fact, the only difference between a Guardsman and an active Army soldiers is that the Guardsman is
supposed to usually remain within the fifty four states and territories, rather than deployed all around the world in combat hell-holes.