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Controversy Sparks at Firing of Marine Female Recruit Battalion CO
Military.com ^ | July 13, 2015 | Fox News

Posted on 07/13/2015 2:40:15 PM PDT by QT3.14

The Marine officer who made female recruits better shots at boot camp has been relieved of her command, igniting controversy.

Military Times reports that Lt. Col. Kate Germano served only a year as the head of the 4th Recruit Training Battalion on Parris Island, S.C., before her dismissal.

She got bounced June 30 after a command investigation accused her of "toxic leadership" by berating and showing contempt for subordinates in public. The 300-page report found her to be "hostile, unprofessional and abusive " and told recruits that sexual assault was preventable, and that those who drank put themselves in a position to be assaulted.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kategermano; marines; military; recruits; usmc; womeninmilitary
She also told recruits male Marines would never take orders from them and would see them as inferior if they couldn't meet men's physical standards.

Hmmmm.

1 posted on 07/13/2015 2:40:15 PM PDT by QT3.14
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2 posted on 07/13/2015 2:47:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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Based on her quotes so far noted on this thread I’d say she was giving pretty good advice.


3 posted on 07/13/2015 2:52:20 PM PDT by circlecity
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Gee what an insane idea. Women Marines should meet the same standards of combat as men. Can’t have that.


4 posted on 07/13/2015 2:54:24 PM PDT by rstrahan
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From article, “Parris Island officials admitted rifle range qualification scores improved dramatically among female recruits under Germano’s tenure.”

She was doing something right, that’s what Marines are supposed to do.


5 posted on 07/13/2015 2:56:18 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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What an upside down cluster copulation. This female Marine Commander should be honored and not dismissed. The lieberal PC tactics infecting the military has to be stopped.


6 posted on 07/13/2015 2:58:33 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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She was a grrrrrl power feminist who got hoisted upon her own pertard by other women, oh well let them eat their own.


7 posted on 07/13/2015 3:02:39 PM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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Wow...


8 posted on 07/13/2015 3:07:38 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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"'What she did when she came is she changed the mentality of the Marines in the battalion and the recruits to not expect a historically lower performance than the male recruits at the battalion,' a female Marine officer stationed at the recruit depot told the Military Times."


What she did was accomplish something by penetrating the mind of a young warrior to be better

NO ONE can interfere with MY mind ... that mind belongs to ME (unspoken but true government attitude, developed in elementary school and nurtured through to high school)

9 posted on 07/13/2015 3:20:06 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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"She also told recruits male Marines... would see them as inferior if they couldn't meet men's physical standards."

Well, no wonder they fired her...

10 posted on 07/13/2015 3:26:12 PM PDT by Redbob (Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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This follows on the heels of the report that every single woman washed out of the Marine Infantry Officers Training Course.(April, this year)


11 posted on 07/13/2015 3:28:41 PM PDT by Redbob (Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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She probably failed the Obama vetting by refusing to agree to order her troops to fire on fellow Americans.


12 posted on 07/13/2015 3:29:42 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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My father was a DI at PI in WW2. These pussies have no idea.


13 posted on 07/13/2015 3:33:35 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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The top brass in the Pentagon is only interested in careers instead of country now. Check out their work now to bring in cross dressers. Anyway, successful commanders dont last in this military. Obama sees them as a threat. And he should.


14 posted on 07/13/2015 3:36:20 PM PDT by armydawg505
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It doesn't make any difference what good things she said or did: she went around her chain of command to get her way.

Not done, if you plan to be successful as a battalion commander.

If you have an issue, or you think you have a better way to do things, convince your immediate commander, don't go over his head.

15 posted on 07/13/2015 3:58:04 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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Where does it say she went around her chain of command to get her way?


16 posted on 07/13/2015 5:26:40 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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Oddly enough, this morning’s New York Times.


17 posted on 07/13/2015 5:31:41 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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No fair bringing in info from an outside source with giving a reference.

Nothing in the article mentioned her going outside the chain of command until she was already in trouble.

If you have more, different info, cite it.


18 posted on 07/13/2015 7:06:47 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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