Posted on 01/06/2017 7:20:01 AM PST by DFG
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — For the first time, the Marine Corps has put three enlisted female Marines in a ground combat unit once open only to men, officials said Thursday.
They will serve as a rifleman, machine gunner and mortar Marine, said 1st Lt. John McCombs, spokesman for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejuene.
They report Thursday to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, which has had three female officers in its ranks for several months to help integrate the enlisted females into the unit, McCombs said. The women's names and ranks were not released.
"This process ensures the Marine Corps will adhere to its standards and will continue its emphasis on combat readiness," McCombs said in an email.
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Mistake.
A dark day in the Marine corps.
And even though it doesn’t matter IF they did, when did three women officers pass the infantry officer course?
They are actual officers? Or enlisted?
Can a girl be a rifleman?? Weren’t they supposed to make all job titles gender neutral?? Whats up with that?????
They are just being placed in the units to create facts on the ground, IMO. These ladies will never deploy. Presumably, the Marxists are getting ready to sue if Trump tries to remove females from those MOS.
Women should be removed from the armed forces.
"For the first time, the Marine Corps has put three enlisted female Marines in a ground combat unit once open only to men, officials said Thursday."
- First line of the article.
Regards,
Thank you for being nice about it. I actually read that later but had already posted. My bad.
Exactly!
These women can’t even do the same physical fitness test as the man, because they will never pass it.
I bet none of them can do even 5 pull ups.
This is a big waste of the tax payers money.
Props to the girl serving as a mortar crewmember. Now, let’s see if she can really hack it; those things aren’t light, and none of the crew positions is (as far as I know) exempt from having to pick up the damn thing and run when necessary.
“machine gunner and mortar Marine,”
Man those are heavy hump positions. No way that makes sense.
Why?
Totally agree. Military is not a place for them.
Problem is, we probably don’t have enough males eligible to fill the slots. Same thing happened in WW II except we had the good sense to not even think about females in combat roles but rather support roles. Nothing wrong with that. Most people ended up in support roles.
Has the pool been started on the first pregnancy? Or are they all homosexual, precluding that option?
Respectfully disagree. There are plenty of support roles women can fill as well as (or even better than) men, freeing up men for combat roles. Ground combat is not one of them.
“We know Females are at least as strong as Males” Barack HUSSEIN OBAMA
Yes, I’ve been out-benched by tons of power-lifting heifers in my gym!
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