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Trailblazing Women Fail Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course
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| October 17, 2012
| Beth Ford Roth
Posted on 10/24/2012 9:52:16 AM PDT by QT3.14
Two trailblazing women who became the first female participants in the notoriously brutal Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course have dropped out of the program, according to the Stars and Stripes.
The two female lieutenants failed to complete the combat endurance test portion of the program, as did 26 male Marines.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: infantry; marines; military; usmc; war; women; womenincombat
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To: PLMerite
“...unless, of course, the standard is lowered to that of a 50 year-old couch-potato male.”
(edited) Hey! I represent that remark!
;^)
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10/24/2012 3:34:51 PM PDT
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JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: Hebrews 11:6
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10/24/2012 3:40:20 PM PDT
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JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
To: JimRed
Ladies' tee. That's not what he was asserting. See his post #36.
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10/24/2012 3:46:47 PM PDT
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Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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