ROE? . . . which is BS but that is my guess.
I guess it ruins the narrative.
One day after a particularly tough (and,supposedly,identical) day of training both members of the male and female platoons were interviewed.
The guys were clearly tired...sore...and even appeared to be dispirited but every one of the made it clear that they could hack it.
The women,when interviewed,were weeping like school girls.
Lord help us if we have to send women into combat roles.....
I think they were trying to protect her from permanent damage. The same way an MMA ref jumps in and restrains a fighter when his opponent isn’t defending himself anymore.
Well, she came in second. He was next to last. < / CNN >
I hope she’s really, really good with a gun because if it comes to hand to hand combat she is toast.
She gets a participation trophy/piñata.......l.
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It goes back to the usual, women and men are different (duh! :-) ) and men have greater upper body strength than women so women are at a disadvantage trying the match up with men in rounds of pugile sticks. Plus the male Marine charged at her and she just stood there and got knocked on her keister. Maybe if she had of met his charge with a charge of her own, she might have stood a chance, but I didn’t see any aggression in her, another obvious disadvantage.
It’s bad enough that young men get killed in war.
When young women are killed, then the future is killed.
The guy was “moto” and she lacked aggression. A local kid kicked butt in the pugil stick fight at boot. He wasn’t very tall nor heavy set. He could, however, work himself into a frenzy like an angry Doberman. Do or die.
pretty much how I received my Pugile stick introduction... I kept going back until the instructor said I’d taken enough... or at least I think that’s what he said ... I was a little wobbly by then.. :)
The real Atomic Blonde.
Got her a good dose of real.
What’s with all the pads a stuff? we didn’t have any of that.
Jeeze, I don’t think the WM even had time to get the license plate of that truck that ran over her! I admire the spirit, but muscle & mass are often overriding factors in infantry hand-to-hand.
She was obviously in the wrong place. I’m at least glad they didn’t let her get injured. It was stupid to even let her do it.
He should've taken it easy on her. Surely ISIS would.
Give that girl an honorable discharge, a Betty Crocker cookbook with matching apron and a pre-made profile on a couple good dating sites. Preferably before someone dies trying to save her from a jihadi who sees a hot white woman and goes “jackpot!” or she fails in actual combat.