Posted on 08/14/2016 4:00:02 AM PDT by SkyPilot
The U.S. Marine Corps is looking for a few more good women.
And this time the campaign is a bit different. Marine recruiters are turning to girls high school sports teams to find candidates who may be able to meet the Corps' rigorous physical standards, including for the front-line combat jobs now open to women.
Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller says he wants to increase the number of women in the Corps to 1 in 10.
"I've told them that 10 percent is where we want to go and they're working on it," Neller told The Associated Press in an interview. "Go recruit more women. Find them. They're out there."
For years, only about 7 percent to 8 percent of the Corps, which numbers 184,200, has been women. It's the smallest percentage of women among all the military services. But on the heels of the Pentagon decision to allow women who qualify to serve in combat jobs, thousands of new infantry, armor and other front-line posts are now open.
Neller said he wants to see women in some of those posts. That order now rests with Maj. Gen. Paul Kennedy, head of the Marine Corps' recruiting command.
Kennedy is aggressively recruiting women for the service. He's sending targeted mailings, changing advertising to better represent female Marines, and traveling the country to meet with coaches and female athletes who may be well-suited for the rigors of Marine service.
In particular, Neller believes female wrestlers are good candidates.
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There has to be thousands of women who play High school ball that could become marines, You would Think. Oh wait....
you do raise an interesting point...there are many school administrators who interpret Title IX to mean there should exist no distinctions in sports activity between the so called sexes-—that if a sport operates, it must do so with equal numbers of males and females...
in the future, look for high school teams to mingle the sexes on the field (or court) kind of like mixed doubles in tennis...won’t football be fun to watch with girls making up half the rosters...?
We need that Amazon Battalion Rush talked about.
Nice to see someone posting the unvarnished truth. There isn’t a female Marine I couldn’t break in half even at my advanced age, but I wouldn’t want to have to face most of the men.
They are out there and if they can meet the same standards as men I say let them have the job.
you’re OK with the child bearing segment of our species needlessly facing slaughter...?
Marines looking for a few good women?
When I was young I looked for a few naughty women!
Females in units who can’t carry rucks, change tires, erect shelters, haul Jerry cans, etc.
but again, on TV they do all those things without a second thought...something doesn’t jive...
Front line combat. We are not talking about support units.
...increase the number of women in the Corps to 1 in 10.
Sometime around the second or third hour of Boot Camp, I heard an expression that has since become axiomatic; “10% screw things up for everyone else”.
Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller says he wants to increase the number of women in the Corps to 1 in 10.
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For what particular reason?
Maybe they can ask the Israelis how they do it.
The Israelis generally do not try to pound square pegs into round holes.
Most close-combat roles are still closed to almost all women, and the few women in those roles are there because of suicidal liberal Israeli courts.
I think that the Marine Corps should exclusively recruit women -- and -- wink, nudge -- make sure that any sense of exclusion or prejudice lingering from before "don't ask, don't tell" -- is eliminated.
In fact, any such women should be formed into their own exclusive elite units.
...and the President Hillary can order the lot of them over to Syria or Libya to fight ISIS, and give them EXACTLY the same amount of close air support which she gave to Benghazi.
Because anything a boy can do, a girl can do better.
Put up or shut up, Trigglypuffs.
Pitiful
Nice extended mag on that Ruger
The Marines: A Few Good Dykes
She’s wearing a lot of fruit salad. Who knew sensitivity training and diversity seminars were so ribbon-rich?
Fast pitch softball.
Start with the girls fast pitch softball teams.
Got some real bruisers on those.
I think a problem here, is that the liberals are trying to treat the military the same way we look at civilian life.
In civilian life, it would be illegal discrimination, to ban women from certain jobs or tasks. It’s been illegal for decades to advertise jobs seeking either men or women for certain jobs.
So they apply this notion of “non-discrimination” to the military, and they decide that everything in the military should be open to females, and otherwise we are discriminatory.
It seems to me that the military is different, in that, they are charged with a unique and dangerous mission, of defending the rest of us.
So now, we will be compelled to see women in combat, not because there are so many qualified women seeking combat, but because of political correctness.
We will see more women on submarines due to this concept as well. In spite of some problems that may arise with men and women in close quarters in an submarine for extended periods of time, we have decided that none of that matters. Because if we do think about those things, we are being “discriminatory”.
Ditto, with women in any military capacity. I’m sure we will see a real life “GI Jane” in the Navy Seals.
To me, a major issue is, will they lower the standards to allow for females in these formerly banned categories.
It’s one thing to allow women, and hold them to the same standards as the men.
It’s quite another if they end up eroding the high standards we rightly set for our military men, in order to have some requisite number of females in the ranks.
I'm sure our enemies would love to fight that kind of a Marine Corps. They would hammer them.
Stupid, stupid, stupid...
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