Here's a female Marine who might've had a shot at passing.
Posted on 04/08/2015 7:44:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An 18 month trial period allowing female Marines to attend the Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course will end without a single female graduate, reported the Marine Corps Times.
The opportunity for female volunteers is part of a larger effort to determine the feasibility of allowing female officers to take part in ground combat operations. If anyone had successfully completed the course, they would not have earned the occupational designator or entered the infantry, since the program was only an experiment.
The IOC began accepting female officers in September 2012, but by July 2014, only 20 female officers had volunteered, and none had completed the course. Only one volunteer made it through the initial Combat Endurance Test.
In October 2014 the Marine Corps broadened the requirements for applicants to encourage more volunteers, making hundreds more Marines eligible. But new applicants also had to have a first-class score on the male-version of the Physical Fitness Test.
Seven more women volunteered, and three managed to pass the Combat Endurance Test, but none successfully completed the course.
The most recent and final course began April 2 with two female officers, but both were dropped the first day after failing to complete the Combat Endurance Test, a spokesperson for Headquarters Marine Corps told the Marine Corps Times.
The goal was for 100 women to complete the course, but only 29 in total made an attempt, and none of them passed.
The number of volunteers, their pass rate and their performance will be considered along with other data, such as the success rate for female Marines in completing a separate Infantry training course in North Carolina.
The information will be compiled for Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., who will make a recommendation to the Department of Defense on whether to allow female troops to take part in ground combat operations.
The obvious answer is to lower the standards further.
Which is exactly what they will do unless a certain Texas senator wins next year.
Active Duty ping.
There are a few jobs in the Military that females can’t do ,why force them to try to do them
How many millions of wasted Promo Dollars did THIS fiasco cost US?
I think it was a mistake to lower the requirements to get in, in the real world, the enemy isn’t going to go easier on you because you are a woman. You need to fit the requirement to enter and pass the regular test.
As a woman, I’m proud that our bodies are different. You guys can’t give birth, and that trumps any muscle/strength issue you can put out there. :-)
Pussies...
Here's a female Marine who might've had a shot at passing.
End the Oppression and make the USMC a "Safe Space".
I have to admit the fact that a woman can produce a human being is pretty awesome.
The standards will be “reviewed” and “revised” now
And the fact that many chose to do it more than once indicates that they are also a little scary.
I went through IOC 30 years ago, and it was hard, but we also played hard. Our instructors for the most part were junior captains and single, so we had a lot of fun. For instance, immediately after our final field exercise the captains bought a keg of beer and we got pretty drunk while cleaning our gear. I really wish I had a picture of that scene (30 Lts- dirty, tired and still painted with cammie paint, cleaning the mud off of their gear while getting sloshed.) However, we were too smart to document that event with pictures.
Assisting in creating that new human being is an awesome thing to.
Cue Barry White music
And they thought Math was hard.
Men and women were made different by God. Amen.
Women!
All talk, no muscle!
More women trying to be men.
They’ll lower it as long as Klownie the Kenyan still has time to destroy the country and our military.
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