Marine Corps to Ban ‘Infantryman’

freebeacon.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Morgan Chalfant

[PROCON]

The Marine Corps is eliminating the job title “basic infantryman” along with 18 others and replacing them with terms that are gender neutral.

Others titles, including “rifleman” and “mortarman,” will remain the same, due to their historical and cultural significance for Marines.

The service plans to replace 19 of its military occupational specialty titles, the Marine Corps Times reported Tuesday, seven months after Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ordered the Marine Corps to conduct a review of all job titles to ensure gender neutrality.

For most of the 19 terms that will be changed, the word “Marine” will replace the word “man.” Basic infantryman, for instance, will become Basic infantry Marine, and “reconnaissance man” will become “reconnaissance marine,” according to a list of the 33 titles reviewed that was obtained by the Marine Corps Times.

[Starboard]

War is an ugly, brutal business whose purpose is the efficient destruction of lives and things. All that matters is defeating the enemy and extinguishing it as a threat. Its a matter of survival of the fittest and strongest, not a social experiment or an exploration of such high minded issues as equality, fairness and inclusion. To be distracted from the singular objective of warfare is to risk defeat, subjugation and deprivation. War is not about proving theories of human relationships; it is an existential contest to which all other issues are secondary.

[Jack Hammer]

Another great American institution destroyed by the America-hating obama.

[Vendome]

Ridiculous. A real man would hold his breath, take the helmet off, scratch the itch and get back to work.

I always wondered how they dealt with itches and other things.

Interesting article.

[Retain Mike]

That reminds me that in regard to dropping the atomic bombs General Marshall said, “War is the most terrible tragedy of the human race and should not be prolonged an hour longer than absolutely necessary”.