"Affirmative."
Posted on 03/15/2014 2:11:50 PM PDT by QT3.14
The Marine Corps will open new combat jobs to women, allow women to volunteer for combat specialty training previously closed to them and create a co-ed experimental task force to evaluate how female Marines perform as part of a ground combat unit, Marine officials said.
The task force will be made up of about 460 Marines, and about one quarter will be women, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine spokeswoman. The task force will look like a small battalion landing team with attachments such as artillery, tanks and amphibious assault vehicles — similar to the ground combat portion of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, but about half the size.
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Why don’t you put her in charge!?
insanity
The real treat for me was the whiny Marine, played by Bill Paxton.
Thanks for pointing this out. I’ve even seen a few TV shows where the main actor said Calvary, when talking about a possible rescue from a bad situation. Unbelievable!
It's all about promotion. Combat tours will get you promoted faster, and female ossifers have been complaining for years that they weren't promoted as fast bec. they couldn't check off the combat box.
Unfortunately, the kind of woman who would pull that stunt is usually a scheming devious character who just wants to punch her ticket. That doesn't hurt too many people in an office somewhere, but in a combat unit it's going to get somebody killed.
Well yeah, but you had to feel a teeny bit for him (teeny) - this was supposed to be his last mission before being out of the service.
New meaaning for the phrase “ get some” !
Well, they sound a lot alike, and people just aren’t exposed to the Bible the way they used to be . . . :-(
Game over man!
"Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now
there won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will
invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"-- Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
Chesty Puller is most decorated U.S. Marine in history. He is also the only Marine to receive five Navy Crosses.
A Few Good Women. If 25% is good, 100% is four times as good.
He’s the one!
Oh, yes, the short timer.
That breaks down to men doing the digging, heavy lifting and hauling, and the women holding the clipboards.
yeah he had short-timer disease real bad. didn’t help he was a little cowardly, but he manned up at the end.
Call me a conspiracy nut.......when women start coming home by the score in body bags, the American Public will decide war is not the answer. All part of the plan to destroy this Nation.
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