Posted on 04/13/2014 5:36:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
The military is taking steps to prepare women for combat roles in 2016.
The Marine Corps announced that it would give young female lieutenants who wash out of the grueling Infantry Officer Course a second shot, same as their male counterparts.
The Army is conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat. The study involves 60 women and 100 men.
CBS News reported on both developments last week.
The Marine Corps announcement came after Marine 2nd Lt. Sage Santangelo took the Infantry Officer Court and wrote about her experience last month in an op-ed in The Washington Post. She didnt make it past the first day and blamed the Marine Corps for a dual standard that sets up women to flunk the course.
Fifteen young women Marines have taken the course. All washed out and all but one washed out on the first day.
She wrote that male officers could retake the course if they failed, but that women could not.
The commandant of the Marine Corps ordered the change after he read her op-ed.
"I'm very humbled that he would consider my opinions and my thoughts," Santangelo, 24, told CBS. "I'm hopeful that it will help others, and I'm glad to see that he's doing that."
The Marines invited female officers to take the Infantry Officer Course in 2012. The 13-week course tests the mettle of potential infantry officers.
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Apparently they haven't joined yet.
That’s a male, really.
It’s a man that thinks it’s a woman. I think he had a loppadichophomy.
Have you ever served in the military?
Finally someone understands the essence of infantry combat, which cannot be measured in a gym or on a track. Infantry combat is measured in blood, gore, gouged eyes, crushed and broken bones and strangled necks. It's a terrible place for the strong men who fight in it, and it is a certain and gruesome death for women and weak men who don't belong there. Millennia of human history is somehow news to some moderns who've never had to endure real war.
This is what guns are “supposed” to be able to equalize.
Still, I’ve known some pretty evil women.
Then they tell the enemy that their girlfriends let them know how small their organs are. Or something evil like that.
Is that done under anesthesia?
IMHO, this is all about female officers getting the right ticket punching done so that more of them end up with eagles and stars on their shoulders.
I would like to see some all woman 155 and 8 inch batteries.
Since they run smaller body-wise they would fit better in armored vehicles.
Passing 120 rounds up to refill Abrams mags and fixing tracks would be a good challenge also.
The Army and Corps should have prospective women do actual real jobs instead of just PT tests to see how they hold up.
Thank you....and yes....you always are and we thank you
Its appalling how dumbshit some here are.
Yeah.....war and up close serious violence and shredded uterus and ovaries ripped open out the torso with cleaved boobs and girl brains smeared all in their pretty hair
Hell yeah....just like hot yoga actually.....any chick can do it....I mean this is just what we want for our women.....lesbo or not
Why hell.....my wife can do it too right?
Worst crap most folks here have seen is a bad car wreck across the median
Am I living in some dumbassification alt universe now?......on a conservative forum at that
Paid for by Medicaid while the on the full welfare ride no doubt.
Introducing sexual tension into a military situation will not make the troops more effective, it will merely serve to yield further territory to the women’s lib crowd.
Moreover, it will undoubtedly get fine, young men killed.
This is one of the worst PC decisions ever made - and at this point there have been a great many.
Let’s see, what will the study find, that we need higher standards, the same standard we use, or that we can get by with a lower standard.
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Ummm... Trying to decide if you’re referring to the military or public and university education standards, since both have lowered their standards to accommodate ethnic/gender/racial groups.
Yes.
This worthless piece of excrement doesn’t even bother to *try* to hide his contempt for our Armed Forces.
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And Sgt. Chuck, now SecDef, just salutes and carries out the dismemberment of our military capabilities.
I can’t think of a single Cabinet Scty. in the Obama regime that has been worthy of such a position. I guess the same would apply to the JCOS of the military, since Obama forced most of the competant senior officers to retire.
Women’s lean muscle mass and density is far lower. There may be a few exceptions but they aren’t in the military. No doubt they will be a drag.
As hard as it must have been for my father and every other man there to endure, I cannot imagine a woman there....the concept is just completely unnatural to me. The horrors of battle and the gruesome injuries that result are not the same as working out in a gym; to compare the two makes no sense.
My father wasn't injured, thank God, but if he had been, I would hate to think of him depending on a girl to carry him off the battlefield.
We already know what the results of the study will lead to, and it won’t be to increase the standards.
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