Men and women are different, and only idiots pretend otherwise. Putting men and women together in combat endangers the men in more ways than one.
Then they can announce women are equal physically.
This is the case everywhere, in sports (golf) and employment - lower the bar to make it unfair to men.
If women want to do the same job as men, they should have to meet the EXACT SAME STANDARDS.
The Standards will definitely have to be lowered for the vaginally impaired.
My son said the Quigly at Quantico was a piece of cake compared to the combat endurance test. Dehydration is what nearly broke him. He handled the physicality OK.
Only uncivilized countries send their women into combat.
The Heart and The Fist- Eric Greitens - saw him this past Sunday on Pritzker Military Library
Heck, if 26 Marines dropped out these two WM’s have
nothing to be ashamed of.
Ooooorah! Marines!
Yup. When women couldn’t meet the standardsat West Point, they lowered the standard.
The Marines are keeping the identities of the two female volunteers private. However, one of the women released a statement after dropping out of the program, which reads in part:
“I want to try to open up a door, maybe, for women after me. I don’t know how far it will open, but I’m hoping to make a difference for women down the road.”
Since this woman was chosen for her extraordinary female physical condition, I opine that the door is not made to be opened by the female of the species; unless, of course, the standard is lowered to that of a 50 year-old couch-potato male.
Interesting, I would have thought that her priority would have been making a difference for her country and the Corps.
When I was assigned to OCS 30 years ago there was a major problem with trying to fairly include the women officer candidates (WOC’s) into the overall evaluations of the candidates. Back then, I believe we only had one OCC per year with women (other than the summer programs.)
The WOC’s were in a separate platoon within a candidate company. They did not participate in all of the same physical training as the men such as the obstacle course, pull ups, 3 mile run. They also didn’t have the same objective evaluations due to differences in the field exercise evaluations. So when it came to determining the top grads in the class, it became very difficult to compare apples to apples.
As I remember it (dimly) there were 3 categories of evaluations used to determine class rank: leadership, physical fitness & academic.
Women’s evaluations were always a problem while trying to keep them somewhat in line with the men’s scores. How would it have looked if the top 5 grads of a company had all been women due to them performing so well because they had easier testing requirements on some of the separate but unequal events?
Apparently this is not the case when all Marines are tested equally as in the infantry officer course.
So what are they to do, be politically correct and lower the standards for everyone and maybe even bend the rules so the honor graduate is occasionally a woman? I hope and pray that’s not the case!
They just recently did it for ‘the races’ in the FL schools, and that’s going to work out real well, too, as soon as it becomes national eh-duh-ka-shun policy.
doesn’t matter to me if they passed at twice the rate of men and with twice as good a score...are they required to sign up for the draft? why not?
until they can be drafted, they’ll never be “equal”.
“equal” presumes equal responsabilities.
Men and women are different, and only idiots pretend otherwise. Putting men and women together in combat endangers the men in more ways than one.
“The two female lieutenants failed to complete the combat endurance test portion of the program, as did 26 male Marines.”
Right. Some males failed, but ALL THE WOMEN FAILED. Not just any women, women specially selected as most likely to pass.
Nothing has changed. Even though the different interest groups would like to "break through all barriers", this isn't one that they should come near. War is killing, nothing more, nothing less.
Women have no business in combat. This is just PC nonsense.
Now they will lower the standards of course
Respect them for making the effort. But DO NOT CHANGE THE STANDARDS! 26 men failed, too.