'nuff said.
“...three miles per hour...”
Hey, I feel good about myself. I can easily walk 2 mph, for at least 2 miles!
However, I doubt I could walk 10 feet carrying 100 pounds, so that part’s against me.
I am a female and I say get them out if they can’t do the job. It is life and death not fantasy about we wish it was.
An O-4 is in charge of one of the Marine Corps’ most important training venues? I highly doubt that.
Why? Because they are too damn slow and are endangering the others, that’s why.
The instructors ask: “Hey, where’s your unit right now? OK, you need to get up with them, because you’re not leading anyone from back here.”
From that point, the officers have about five minutes to start catching up. If they don’t, they are put in a truck.
Sounds like the officers need to be disciplined and the course changed to allow them to only have to carry 25 pound packs over shorter distances with more time allowed.
Or perhaps each woman in the platoon can be assigned a man to carry her pack as well as his. See how well the men hold up with 200 pound loads.
Because we all know the most important thing is to observe political correctness.
Is this the gay Marines or the other kind?
The article leaves this as not being so clear cut. While I was in the Navy, not the Marines, I do think they need to give this more consideration, especially if the pace is not regulated and most everyone failed. Moving the goal posts to create failures is just as bad as moving them to create passes. At the end of the day the Marines, like all services, need to find ways to bring women into combat, to respect that they can and should be equal participants, that they have different physical limits. Besides, does EVERYONE need to carry a 124 pound backpack?! Is that what we really want selection of officers based on?
I rather doubt they were carrying 108 pounds each. In my day in the Nam, a riflemen carried around 85 pounds, a grenadier around 90. The real studs were the M60 gunners and their assistants who were packing around 105 each.
The article is so slanted and touchy-feely.
If they were trying to join the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, they would have been told to take a haiku.
Sure is a different world than the one I grew up in.
When I was going through the FIRST Co-Ed Training Platoon at FJSC in 1979, it was REALLY tiring for us gals to drag the guys along.
It ain’t braggin’ if’n you can do it! :)
(Today, closing in on 55? Not so much, LOL!)
if ya can't run with the bigdogs, you best stay on the porch...Colonel Christian Wortman is the commander.
Could these women be examples of the war on women the Liberals have become obsessed with?
Can she carry my 200 lb Marine 100 yards?
“They were physically disqualified from the training last week for falling behind in hikes while carrying loads of upwards of 100 pounds, says Maj. George Flynn, director of the Infantry Officers Course (IOC) at Quantico, Va.”
Of course they can’t. They’re women. Very few women can physically do things that men can do. They weren’t cut by the virtue of being women, but by the fact they are too weak for combat. People need to stop acting like something wrong happened here. They wouldn’t accept a man who can’t do, so why would they accept women who can’t do it?
precisely and only nut jobs want to try and keep up with one of the finest fighting forces on earth
I didn’t mean to say that the forces were nut jobs....they are dedicated and well trained but this need to ‘do everything a man does’ is insane
