Marine Corps Gender Integration Program Ends Without A Female Grad

The Daily Caller ^ | April 8, 2015 | Rachel Stoltzfoos

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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.

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I agree: “Marine Corps infantry is no place for social experimentation, and pretending otherwise is a recipe for disaster.”

The purpose of the military is to break things and kill people.

ANY experimentation that does not increase the military’s ability to break things and kill people “is a recipe for disaster!”

Many examples come to mind, but I’ll leave it to my fellow FReeper Veterans to provide examples of the dumbass “social experimentation initiatives” certain misguided civilian politicians, bureaucrats and federal appointees to high office have imposed upon the military since WW II.

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Now if we could just get other institutions to stick to their standards.

If you send a fireman to my house to rescue me, I don’t care if it’s a man or a woman, but I do care if he or she is strong enough to do the job. Similarly, I don’t care what race my surgeon is, but I don’t want to be operated on by an affirmative action doctor who got into medical school on lower standards. I don’t want to drive over bridges designed by engineers who got into engineering school on lower standards. And most of all, I don’t want to have someone in the WH who got there with a track record of Zero achievements, whose test scores and grades were so embarrassingly low they had to be put under lock and key.