Posted on 10/26/2014 11:25:52 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Just weeks after three women passed a rigorous day-long test qualifying them to potentially lead US Marine infantrymen for the first time in history, news came that all three women have been asked to leave the course.
They were physically disqualified from the training last week for falling behind in hikes while carrying loads of upwards of 100 pounds, says Maj. George Flynn, director of the Infantry Officers Course (IOC) at Quantico, Va.
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'nuff said.
“...three miles per hour...”
Hey, I feel good about myself. I can easily walk 2 mph, for at least 2 miles!
However, I doubt I could walk 10 feet carrying 100 pounds, so that part’s against me.
I am a female and I say get them out if they can’t do the job. It is life and death not fantasy about we wish it was.
An O-4 is in charge of one of the Marine Corps’ most important training venues? I highly doubt that.
Why? Because they are too damn slow and are endangering the others, that’s why.
The instructors ask: “Hey, where’s your unit right now? OK, you need to get up with them, because you’re not leading anyone from back here.”
From that point, the officers have about five minutes to start catching up. If they don’t, they are put in a truck.
Sounds like the officers need to be disciplined and the course changed to allow them to only have to carry 25 pound packs over shorter distances with more time allowed.
Or perhaps each woman in the platoon can be assigned a man to carry her pack as well as his. See how well the men hold up with 200 pound loads.
Because we all know the most important thing is to observe political correctness.
Is this the gay Marines or the other kind?
The article leaves this as not being so clear cut. While I was in the Navy, not the Marines, I do think they need to give this more consideration, especially if the pace is not regulated and most everyone failed. Moving the goal posts to create failures is just as bad as moving them to create passes. At the end of the day the Marines, like all services, need to find ways to bring women into combat, to respect that they can and should be equal participants, that they have different physical limits. Besides, does EVERYONE need to carry a 124 pound backpack?! Is that what we really want selection of officers based on?
The mere fact they are women should be the dis-qualifier.
Sorry if that offends, but women should not be on the front lines in US Armed Forces period. No pun intended.
I rather doubt they were carrying 108 pounds each. In my day in the Nam, a riflemen carried around 85 pounds, a grenadier around 90. The real studs were the M60 gunners and their assistants who were packing around 105 each.
The article is so slanted and touchy-feely.
Correct. There are plenty of places women can do good work, but the front lines ain’t it. I speak as a former military officer who is female.
No they don't.
If they were trying to join the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, they would have been told to take a haiku.
Why? Obama is the CIC. Why would you doubt it? I’m more surprised they arent having it run by Al and Jessie in the name of social justice.
Ask that question to the survivors of the Chosin Reservoir and see what they say.
Sure is a different world than the one I grew up in.
When I was going through the FIRST Co-Ed Training Platoon at FJSC in 1979, it was REALLY tiring for us gals to drag the guys along.
It ain’t braggin’ if’n you can do it! :)
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if ya can't run with the bigdogs, you best stay on the porch...
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