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Two more Female Marines Dropped from Infantry Course
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 1/9/15 | Aaron Maclean

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.


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To: ABN 505

Why not get some femanazi group to put up a big cash reward for the first woman to pass without changing the rules. I bet a million dollars would be enough motivation.


81 posted on 01/10/2015 9:44:53 AM PST by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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To: servantboy777
If war ever breaks out, I mean a real war akin to WWII, we are in hot water with this guy at the helm.

If we get into a hot war with a "major Asian power" O'Bastard would be impeached immediately, Bidin too. Kind of like the Churchill thing, when the sheep get scared they actually look for real leaders.

82 posted on 01/10/2015 9:45:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: larryjohnson; PoplarBluffian

More details on standards and the actual course are given here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3245270/posts

Your daughter can actually try what they are required to do and if she trains first to condition herself and succeeds, then she should open a business to get women who want to join the Corps in shape before they join. Can she do the required number of male version pull ups? If so, get that on youtube!!!! What about leading others into combat where her “children” (they are all my sons at this point) are put into danger and killed? Will she do the mama-grizzly reaction or think like a man? Just wondering.


83 posted on 01/10/2015 9:49:06 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: servantboy777

Most simply put, the husband has to be willing to die for his wife (as do the infantry) and the wife must be willing to support the husband (with respect as do the other members of the military). Works for me.


84 posted on 01/10/2015 9:54:06 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776
Certainly. Woman are very strong, only the way a woman can be.

Tell ya what, if I have a disagreement with my wife, I'd better know what the heck I'm tawkin bout and not just pop off with some sort of nonsense...she'll shred me to pieces. lol

My smokin hot wife believes more traditionally as well and I'm very thankful for her and for that.

Society (Liberal PC crap) has attempted to emasculate men and make woman masculine. That's the whole metro-sexual thing. Guys walking around all prissy. Man oh man, I tell ya, walking through a mall or public place, sometimes ya can't tell if a guy is a guy.

85 posted on 01/10/2015 10:01:56 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: jimpick

Actually the man is to lay down his life for the wife and the wife is to submit (support) the husband. The problem with this administration is the lack of support for the men who are laying down their lives for them.


86 posted on 01/10/2015 10:05:52 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: Theoria

If it takes 9 months to prepare, I was just wondering if the female body degrades with inactivity faster because it is not a natural conditioning? just thinking biologically and taking the non-deployment times into consideration.


87 posted on 01/10/2015 10:12:45 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776
9 months to improve physical condition, land navigation, basic light infantry tactics, operational orders and procedures, and other basic skills just in ‘shape’ to do the course.
88 posted on 01/10/2015 10:15:07 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: servantboy777

I bet it’s not like that in Russia but it is part of the plan to weaken America.


89 posted on 01/10/2015 10:20:37 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776
Right, take a look at the forty stated goals of the communist in an effort to weaken America. Crazy stuff. They wrote them in like the 50’s.

Take control of educational institutions.
Take control of the media.
Both political parties.
Normalize homosexuality.

Spend the nation into collapse...Cloward/Piven strategy.

On and on and on. I went through them one day and almost all of them have been accomplished.

90 posted on 01/10/2015 10:26:40 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: Wage Slave
I don’t look to gurls for protection.



Depends on the gurls.

91 posted on 01/10/2015 10:28:17 AM PST by sparklite2
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To: yldstrk

“Then I would tell them “I can hit a fly from 1000 feet, can you use me?”

Answer:

“If you can’t get your ass and your gear to the fight, that doesn’t help.”


92 posted on 01/10/2015 10:31:07 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Squantos
Doom on em indeed:


93 posted on 01/10/2015 10:31:45 AM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: Wage Slave

Tell that to your mama who raised you and protected you from untold dangers.


94 posted on 01/10/2015 10:41:40 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: servantboy777

Why don’t Constitutionalists do it up front and within 4 years?


95 posted on 01/10/2015 10:50:26 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: huldah1776
Honestly, I think the progressives and the liberal republicans are watering down our nation with foreigners that could give a rats patookie about our constitution.

They see money/benefits of a wealthy nation. Even the poor in this country are far more well off than most other nations.

Constitutionalists I believe are a dying breed. Sad really.

96 posted on 01/10/2015 11:05:57 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: sparklite2

Girls of the IDF are not only cute, but lethal. lol


97 posted on 01/10/2015 11:06:49 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: G Larry

Yes, true. Agreed. I think the Marines are awesome. If you can be of assistance to the Marine mission, great. If you are a hindrance, don’t bother them.


98 posted on 01/10/2015 11:23:27 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I like your post and it reflects the world I was born into...unfortunately, due to political correctness and the feminist movement, the playing field is no longer level and women are treated differently than men...one example...more females enter and graduate from college than males, gender preference is still practiced in public service organizations and most large corporations...many men no longer seek long term female relationships because in disputes,court decisions usually favour the female plaintiff, particularly in child custody disputes and alimony decisions...Men going their own way...the new norm...


99 posted on 01/10/2015 12:49:36 PM PST by albertabound
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To: savagesusie

you are BANG ON..check out this youtube interview with former KGB agent Yuri Besmenov on useful idiots and how feminism became engrained in western society ...

http://youtu.be/vLqHv0xgOlc


100 posted on 01/10/2015 12:56:03 PM PST by albertabound
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