>> generally i'm not for lowering standards. >> she is a form he marine corp officer who commanded troops in afghanistan. >> i was at one point able to do five but it was that first one that took me the longest to get to. >> she said women have to learn how to do pull-ups. something many have never done. >> experiment with different techniques. you figure out what other exercises to do. >> critics say the big push over pull-ups is part of a bigger problem. pressure from the white house to make the military gender neutral. >> something is wrong here and it is not the women's fault. it is the policy the marines are pursuing. >> obviously this is a big deal, chris lawrence. what do the marines do next so they're not in this same spot a year from now? >> it is clearly a setback to put thousands of women into combat roles by 2016. look, there are women who are clearly ready. 13 female marines just finished