Posted on 01/10/2015 6:55:37 AM PST by ABN 505
Two female Marine officers who volunteered to attempt the Corps’ challenging Infantry Officer Course did not proceed beyond the first day of the course, a Marine Corps spokesperson confirms to the Free Beacon. The two were the only female officers attempting the course in the current cycle, which began Thursday in Quantico, Virginia.
With the two most recent drops, there have been 29 attempts by female officers to pass the course since women have been allowed to volunteer, with none making it to graduation. (At least one woman has attempted the course more than once.) Only three female officers have made it beyond the initial day of training, a grueling evaluation known as the Combat Endurance Test, or CET. Male officers also regularly fail to pass the CET, and the overall course has a substantial attrition rate for males.
I doubt it.
Ok. I only read the posted paragraph.
“Watching cross fit woman’s competition onESPN I think any of those gals could do any marine course. And they are all lovely to look at.”
I was thinking the same thing! My daughter is in cross fit & is pretty amazing. She did a tough muddier & enjoyed the heck out of it. At this point, she would need more training in certain areas but if challenged she would sure give it her best shot!
I’ll say that NO woman would have been up to a few weeks in the field with armored cavalry in Vietnam.
Probably broke a fingernail...
Look for lower standards soon so no female feels demoralized.
Actually, the article did detail that 15 male officers failed to make it past the first day, out of 118 officers who started the course. The female rate is still significantly higher than for the males...
Actually, without women, men would not care if they got lost...it's called an adventure at that point...
The family unit is what is strong not just a man or a woman
amen...and the family unit the basis of society, and what the Republic was formed around and to support.
It’s temporary. In heaven we are like the angels, no nationality, no gender. Cool, eh? But take this into consideration,the first are last and the last first so why sell your inheritance for a pot of stew? I haven’t considered the Biblical stance on divorce redistribution of wealth but I’ll keep it in mind as I read through it again.
“They just do not have the strength in their arms. Not sure but I suspect it has to do with female physiology and anatomy.”
The sex hormones, estrogens and testosterone, govern the relative proportions of slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibers a person has and their relative sizes. Female hormones produce a greater proportion of slow twitch muscle fibers, whose rich supply of oxygen carrying blood and other advantages permits them to sustain contraction longer with less fatigue and less power than fast twitch muscle fibers. Male hormones produce a greater proportion and greater size and mass of fast twitch muscle fibers, whose lesser blood supply and other disadvantages results in fatigue and pain in much less time and short bursts of substantially greater strength than slow twitch muscle fibers.
Over time male-to-female transgendered persons under the influence of female hormones undergo the replacement of their muscle mass with the greater proportion of slow twitch muscle fibers characteristic of females. This replacement of the fast twitch muscle fibers results in reduced muscle mass and strength and increased endurance and healing capacity. Likewise, female-to-male transgendered persons undergo the replacement of their muscle mass with the greater proportion of slow twitch muscle fibers characteristic of males. This replacement of the slow twitch muscle fibers results in increased muscle mass and strength with greater limitations due to a female skeletal capacities and decreased endurance and healing capacity.
The contrast between the sex hormone exposures highlight the differences between the potentials for development of muscle mass and strength available to different sexually determined skeletal structures.
You have to agree, if I were to say that marriage is between a man and a woman you'd likely say...well, sure it is, that's the way God made it....right?
The ten commandments are a good moral guide given by God, so our system of laws were created utilizing Mosaic law...this is a good thing, right? This was set up by God, right?
God gave woman as helpers to man and they have been since beginning of time. If not for woman, guyz can get really stupid. God often times uses Godly woman to bring men back to reality.
Woman are the glue of the family unit. A child that grows up without a mother typically knows no maternal instinct and carries a whole host of relational issues throughout life.
Not trying to placate, I can name 9 million reasons why woman make life worth living and make the world a better place.
But, if one holds a biblical view, it is what it is.
The temptation was aimed at the weaker vessel. No offense taken since it makes perfect sense in war, spiritual or otherwise.
The head of the executive branch has showed his disdain for the Corps in many ways. His hatred and fear of real men is at the core of this and I truly worry about the difference this makes for the branch with the greatest proportion of 18 year olds. So much so the mama-grizzly inside starts to rage. Mattis needs to speak out for them.
So why hasn’t a woman engineer come up with tools of the trades you mentioned to equalize the field? Those dang wrenches are useless for me. Also, why aren’t there more heavy equipment operators? Are they too hard to shift?
Absolutely. Obozo’s a lil metrosexual wussy.
To have him as the commander in chief just rubs me.
His betrayal has made a big difference, especially in Special Ops.
HAH HAH
It is Marxism and the irrational view (radical egalitarianism) to pretend that males and females are interchangeable——for the perceptions of little boys and girls: that there is no difference between males and females and women are exactly like males. They have to destroy Natural Instincts in males and females by having little boys conditioned into killing women along with men on the battle field: women are conditioned to hate males and compete against males and kill their own genetic offspring to destroy all Christian Ethics which created the most successful, free cultures in history.
Men and women are complimentary, but Marxism makes it competing-—they have to group people and pit them against each other to destroy unity and destroy Western Civilization. (which they are doing splendidly, BTW, since schools and TV start brainwashing kids prior to being able to read. (They embed the proper emotions/attitudes for kids about what is “normal” and “good” and they teach Vice is Virtue, which will collapse civil society).
It is to destroy Reason and Logic and Natural Law (the Natural family) and destroy the Traditions and Traditional Roles of male and female and condition boys to see that women are the “same” as they are and destroy their natural instincts (emasculate) to protect the weaker sex and the weak (children) in society. Without true masculine males (moral men), culture collapses. Without moral masculine males (ones who care and protect their family and never desert them), civil society collapses.
Marxists have to destroy all loyalty to the mother and father so the State shapes and controls the minds of the children. Control and power is transferred to the State.....leave human beings dependent on the State. The sodomite elite have to destroy Virtue in the children so they have to destroy the family. Reality is formed by role models and removing the Father and Mother is essential-—so children model themselves after the unnatural, the immoral, and the artificial. Women are seen as policemen, firemen, Generals like Patton (simply stupid and to demean male roles). True effective cultures use hierarchy (Laws of Nature and Design of God) to run efficient (excellent) cultures.
Without hierarchy—you get chaos and inefficient use of people (like males “nursing babies”—it is stupid, wastes time and destroys Natural Instincts and understanding of the Laws of Nature (Reason) in the child.
Marxism reduces everyone to be interchangeable (a Lie for collective cultures)—to condition children, to destroy competition, Individualism, and incentives and create mediocre lazy (non-virtuous) people. Destroy Virtue (Excellence) and you collapse culture. (Socrates).
Destroy risk-takers and competition, and you destroy the masculine. That Western Worldview which created Individualism (only comes from Christian Ethics and the Natural Family unit) and that concept that Individual Natural Rights come from God.
The Cultural Marxists (Gramsci, etc) knew to destroy Christian Ethics and the Natural Family—the two pillars of Western Civilization, you will collapse civil society and reduce people to tribal-like (dependent) people: God replaced by State and Slavery.
They want children raised with perceptions that TV/Media has been creating since the late 60s to destroy Christian Ethics, Virtue, and destroy true marriage-—so kids are emotional cripples, have no Reality models but the artificial (and controlled by the State) who become addicts and easily manipulated and controlled by their base instincts: Reason and Logic and belief in the true God (Christian Ethics) is impossible for ideologues. Christianity combined Reason and Faith (Aquinas) and no other “religion” is as rational as Christianity. That is why the Enlightenment, Modern Science and the US Constitution grew out of Christian Ethics (worldview).
Yes it has. Why the American people voted this guy back into office just escapes me.
If war ever breaks out, I mean a real war akin to WWII, we are in hot water with this guy at the helm.
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