It’s OK, they can always be pilots.
The men will just have to keep the grunt jobs so the cush jobs can be populated by the Victims of Patriarchy.
They cannot be pilots in the USMC. Ooops, I was wrong. I guess they also have lowered the standards for the Corps in order to get women into pilots billets.
According to the article. "Women have moved into Army artillery jobs and serve on Navy submarines and in the naval Riverine units. But none has made it through the Marine Corps' officer infantry course."
"The Marine Corps initially opened the Infantry Officer Course to women coming out of introductory officer training at The Basic School at Quantico. The results thus far: Only 20 women have attempted it, and none have completed it. Some have come close to passing the grueling initial Combat Endurance Test, as I observed on site for Marine Corps Times last year, but they all fell short." Marine Corps dilemma with women prompts change at infantry school
It used to be a basic tenet of the Corps that "Every Marine a Rifleman, Every Marine officer an Infantry Platoon commander." With very few exceptions, ALL Marine officers go through the Basic Infantry Platoon Leaders course at Quantico, known as "The Basic School", before going on to specialized training as pilots, artillery, tanks, supply, etc.
Marine pilots serve as Forward Air Controllers (FACs) and Air Liaison Officers (ALOs) with infantry battalions and occasionally artillery battalions. I spent a year as a FAC with 3rd Bn, 4th Marines on a Battalion Landing Team in the western Pacific (WESTPAC). One training operation required carrying a 115 lb backpack (a lot of radios, batteries & cold weather gear) in the mountains of Korean.
My XO at The basic School (TBS) Quantico (an F-8 Crusader fighter pilot) told of his tour as the G-3 (Operations Officer) 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam. He said he had 2 Regimental G-3s working for him who were pilots and two rifle company commanders who were pilots...leading a Marine infantry company in the bush in combat.
My question is, do these new women Marine pilots also serve FAC & ALO tours, or do the men have to take up the slack for them?