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Posted on 01/05/2017 6:21:38 PM PST by Chode
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — For the first time, the Marine Corps has put three enlisted female Marines in a ground combat unit once open only to men, officials said Thursday.
They will serve as a rifleman, machine gunner and mortar Marine, said 1st Lt. John McCombs, spokesman for the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejuene.
They report Thursday to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, which has had three female officers in its ranks for several months to help integrate the enlisted females into the unit, McCombs said. The women's names and ranks were not released.
"This process ensures the Marine Corps will adhere to its standards and will continue its emphasis on combat readiness," McCombs said in an email.
Their entry in the unit marks ongoing efforts to comply with Defense Secretary Ash Carter's directive in December 2015 to open all military jobs to women, including the most dangerous commando posts.
That decision was formal recognition of the thousands of female servicewomen who fought in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars in recent years, including those who were killed or wounded.
Carter's decision also stood as a rebuff to the Marine Corps, which was the only service branch to ask for an exception to women serving in certain infantry and combat slots.
The Army, Navy, Air Force and Special Operations Command all said they would not seek any exceptions and would recommend removing the ban on women in dangerous combat jobs.
In June, six months after Carter's move, The Associated Press reported the Marine Corps had seven female officers either serving in combat posts or waiting in line to serve, and 167 women with noncombat jobs in front-line units.
There are about 40,000 Marines in the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force.
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BAMs
Maude
Ping.
Thanks Chode.
Ya. Because as Obama said, women are just as strong as men.
A woman carrying the mortar?
That miserable faggot Ash Carter can’t be gone soon enough.
Poor ladies. This will not end well for them. The physical punishment on the body, trying to keep pace with the rest of the lads......this is all too predictable. And then they are going to want to have children.
*SPIT*
Being a Marine is one thing. I applaud her service, she’s my sister for it, no matter her politics.
Being Marine infantry is another thing, altogether. I was in it for a while, before I went over to Combat Engineers. You have to learn to have an affection for misery, even while bitching about it.
Probably “60”s but guess who gets a pass humpin’ the base plate.
I want to see the female Marine who carries the 81 base plate.
I wonder if these three actually passed the tests that you had to pass? My late father was a communications Marine in WWII, Korea and Vietnam and that was hard enough. Familiarity was why I went Army instead. Who wants to go back to the same places they lived as a child?
That’s why they’re better off in the airwing, logistics, or Camp Johnson. Grunt supporters.
“three female officers in its ranks for several months to help integrate the enlisted females into the unit, “
All the while saying there will be no special provisions.
Combat units must not be co-ed. It is bad for moral.
A fool’s errand.
I remember my Senior Drill Instructor SSGT Deas telling us that “Every swinging dick in the Corps that isn’t infantry is here to support the grunts”.
There is no dishonor in that, unless you give less than your best, especially when at war.
I aced my ASVABs, my recruiters were astonished that I wanted infantry, instead of intelligence or something. I told them that the infantry was the whole point, and I wanted to be there.
“I wonder if these three actually passed the tests that you had to pass? “
Wow - that is really sexist and discriminatory-
you should be proud!- that there are now “girls” in
the front line!- blazing the trail for transgender’s too!
Haven’t you heard ? the GREAT leader gave himself-Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service!
Things are looking up for the military in these final days
of O’bummers presidency-
(do I need a Sarcasm tag? Barf bag? LOL tag?)—ugh
Took my ASVAB in 9th grade. By 11th grade I was talking to all 5 branches, but the Army offered me the most options. With my GT score the intelligence types scooped me up with no ifs ands or buts. They literally only showed me intel MOS jobs. I laughed when they tried to make me a Russian diddly-bop.
Do the Israeli’s have women in combat? Infantry?
And the Kurdish have women in infantry—but they are ALL female units..very tough. and the Jhihadis stay away cause they don’t want to be killed by a woman.
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