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Pressure grows on Marines to consider lowering combat standards for women
The Washington Times ^ | April 21, 2015 | Rowan Scarborough

Posted on 04/21/2015 5:07:39 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Two years ago, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the nation’s top military officer, laid down an edict on the Obama administration’s plan to open direct land combat jobs to women: If women cannot meet a standard, senior commanders better have a good reason why it should not be lowered.

Today, the “Dempsey rule” appears to have its first test case.

The Marine Corps just finished research to see if female officers could successfully complete its rigorous Infantry Officer Course.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: combat; searchworks; usmc; women
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To: Timber Rattler
Make sure those doing the pressuring, fight with nothing but these new "lower-standard" female marines in the next (Rush to Baghdad) then.

(speechless)

21 posted on 04/21/2015 5:56:42 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Don’t forget Demi Moore was an Army Ranger. Or was it a Navy SEAL. Or was it a Recon Marine?

Dempsey is a self serving politician disguised as an Army officer. What a creep!


22 posted on 04/21/2015 5:57:07 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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To: Sasparilla
We appear to be doing it to feminize and humiliate our military.
More of Zer0’s fundamental transformation of America.

It's almost enough to make an apocalyptic house cleaning sound like a good thing.


23 posted on 04/21/2015 6:01:13 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Will ISIS and the Taliban give us a time out when the female’s “monthly visitor” comes calling?


25 posted on 04/21/2015 6:06:16 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: dp0622

I can tell you that never happened in the book. Women weren’t in the Mobile Infantry.

It was a great book, and should be read by everyone. Along with ERB, it started my life-long love affair with science fiction.

Robert Heinlein, RIP


26 posted on 04/21/2015 6:32:06 AM PDT by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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To: chesley

I THINK I read it. Didn’t the individual soldiers have tactical nuke launchers :)


27 posted on 04/21/2015 6:33:18 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Timber Rattler

I would like to see someone show us why having lower standards for women will improve the military. As far as I can see women are not the equivalent of a man in combat. If the goal is to have more soldiers killed then I guess that is the answer. Political Correctness is the why to destruction.


28 posted on 04/21/2015 6:38:46 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Reagan said, "Government is the problem." And it certainly is!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Stevie Wonder could have seen THIS coming.


29 posted on 04/21/2015 6:40:08 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Timber Rattler

“Surprise” is right.

We are going to pay for this someday. With blood. And defeat.

And the people who are going to scream the loudest and longest about “how could this happen” are the very people pushing it.

But they won’t be called on it, and they will blame it on people who were forced to follow their “rules and guidelines”.

This makes my blood boil.


30 posted on 04/21/2015 6:45:07 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Timber Rattler

This is destruction by design.

Nobody is really this stupid.


31 posted on 04/21/2015 6:48:31 AM PDT by G Larry (Hillary Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: areukiddingme1

No. These are the same mental defectives who feel that any situation can be “improved” by normalizing the population of participants to represent “the community”.

This percentage of the sexes, this percentage of the races, the percentage of the “genders”, etc.

No thought about performance, it is the representation that is vital to them, even if it means a drop of 50% or more in performance and an increase in large parts in support costs.

The blood and treasure is worth it to them.


32 posted on 04/21/2015 6:49:54 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: G Larry

I agree with you. This is by design.


33 posted on 04/21/2015 6:51:54 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Iron Munro

I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen that picture, though I reserve the right to say it could have been photoshopped.

And the grinning idiots wearing those shoes. What the Hell is wrong with them?


34 posted on 04/21/2015 6:54:52 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Timber Rattler

OK. The old ladies in their armchairs want to up the ante and put women directly into combat so we won’t fight anymore.

What are they doing to reduce our enemies will to fight?

Walking around this world with your hands tied gets you beat up, robbed and probably dead.

There will be an accounting for all this stupidity that the Democrats are pulling. I guarantee it will be horrible.

The Law Of Effect teaches us that you will generally receive less of behavior that is punished. The people who bring this horrible outcome upon us must then be punished to ensure that this type of behavior is discouraged. It will be necessary.


35 posted on 04/21/2015 6:58:23 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

The left is never made to suffer the consequences of their actions. NEVER!

Ask TYRANT Lois Lerner.


36 posted on 04/21/2015 7:02:51 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: blueunicorn6

But they won’t be punished, for the same way they are never punished for the abysmal liberal policies that have landed us where we are.


37 posted on 04/21/2015 7:03:52 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Timber Rattler

The females in the Armed Forces should be issued swords. Girls with swords are really hot.


38 posted on 04/21/2015 7:14:00 AM PDT by pleasenotcalifornia
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To: Iron Munro

When I was in the military, there were certain rules a soldier was never to do in public, because it was unmanly.
Where have those rules gone!


39 posted on 04/21/2015 7:17:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( BEWARE the EVIL EYE from HILLARY!)
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To: rlmorel; Sasparilla; Ruy Dias de Bivar

Here is a FR thread on the subject from yesterday:

“The Footwear Cadets Were Allegedly Forced to Wear During Political Event March Has Sparked an Uproar”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3281309/posts


40 posted on 04/21/2015 8:13:57 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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