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Marine Corps Eases Requirement that Has Inhibited Female Infantry Officers
freebeacon ^ | February 12, 2018 | Natalie Johnson

Posted on 02/12/2018 1:41:00 PM PST by MarvinStinson

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To: MarvinStinson

Swamp level: not drained.


41 posted on 02/12/2018 2:21:01 PM PST by Dagnabitt (Zero miles of wall completed. Wake me when MAGA starts.)
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To: MarvinStinson

It sounds like those who prove themselves incapable of enduring combat will still be eligible to endure combat.


42 posted on 02/12/2018 2:25:55 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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To: MarvinStinson

I can only say, thank the Lord my son is now a former Marine.

Having been forced to work under the ‘supervision’ of female officers, I can agree this is a disaster in the making.


43 posted on 02/12/2018 2:26:38 PM PST by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: stylin19a
Looks like it's removed for both male & female Marines.

Exactly! Now they will all be physically unfit.

44 posted on 02/12/2018 2:31:32 PM PST by TigersEye (Where is the Trump/Russia collusion memo? ... Mueller? Mueller? Anybody?)
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To: MarvinStinson; TallahasseeConservative; Darksheare; LeoWindhorse; Texas Fossil
I send out this letter every year on the anniversary of allowing women in combat. Whenever the subject comes up I advice young men to not enter the armed forces.

From: Retain Mike Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 11:04 AM To: WSJ Letters (wsj.ltrs@wsj.com) Subject: The Tragedy of Women in Combat

As of December 2015, regimental combat teams and special forces units became bureaucratic toys for those imagining equal opportunity and affirmative action could coexist with warriors enduring the brutality imperative for victory.

Combat operations require the most severe restrictions on human emotions and behaviors to foster the uniquely understood high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion. Human sexuality cannot intrude into this authoritarian meritocracy where only those displaying the greatest savagely can win.

At the point of collision, our troops face situations requiring exceptional physical capabilities and unbelievably sacrificial, primitive, and intimate relations. They continuously face extraordinary stress punctuated by killing other humans within inherently chaotic and brittle environments.

National defense through war involves the ultimate Olympics. There is much less excuse for merging men and women into this hideous ordeal than exists for combining the athletic competitions every four years.

Institutional memories no longer exist for fighting ferocious, shrewd enemies such as Germans, Japanese, Chinese, and North Vietnamese, who utilized a full array of modern weapons. As this tragedy unfolds remember the quote that, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”

45 posted on 02/12/2018 2:32:44 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: TallahasseeConservative

Precisely


46 posted on 02/12/2018 2:32:52 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: WASCWatch
"Women infantry officers should lead all-female infantry units."

Correct. I believe this exercise was to insure that the officer in charge of the platoon was physically fit enough to lead from the front...not hang back in the rear.

47 posted on 02/12/2018 2:32:59 PM PST by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: Pining_4_TX; All
Which is it, feminists?

That's which is it, femiNAZIS?
48 posted on 02/12/2018 2:44:27 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: beergarden

The military will spend big money saying that the women do EVERYTHING that the men do even though it is a complete lie. Women should not even be in combat engineers where they have long held positions. This mass insanity is hurting America.


49 posted on 02/12/2018 2:49:51 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: MarvinStinson

50 posted on 02/12/2018 2:57:56 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Not a Marine, but I think this is a big, BIG mistake. American blood will be spilled because of it.


51 posted on 02/12/2018 2:58:55 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (The GOP-Democrat-Media Uniparty must be destroyed.)
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To: Retain Mike

In days to day ops, we are supposed to be sensitive and empathetic to females in the squadron, then after decades of sensitivity training we go to war and then we men are supposed to flip a switch and be insensitive to what happens to females in combat?

How’s that supposed to work?

You and me get shot down and they threaten to beat and torture you unless I talk. Sorry pal, when this war is over I’ll buy you a beer at the club.

But an EEOC-trained sensitive guy and a female are shot down and they bring in the female and threaten to rape, beat and torture her in front of mr sensitivity unless he talks.

Guess what Mr Sensitivty does?

I guess we men should be easily able to turn off that sensitivity switch.


52 posted on 02/12/2018 3:01:50 PM PST by Hulka
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To: \/\/ayne

We're looking for a few bad ladies!
53 posted on 02/12/2018 3:06:21 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Chesty is rolling in his grave.


54 posted on 02/12/2018 3:23:53 PM PST by Garvin (Always remember folks, kill a commie for mommy ~ Semper Fi, Mac!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Chesty is rolling in his grave. Bears saying again.


55 posted on 02/12/2018 3:27:06 PM PST by Garvin (Always remember folks, kill a commie for mommy ~ Semper Fi, Mac!)
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To: MarvinStinson; Travis McGee

ping


56 posted on 02/12/2018 3:32:09 PM PST by gaijin
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To: MarvinStinson

Dumbing down the system to fit more PC progressive cries for equality and diversity. Question: if one gender has requirements not the same of the other gender, how is that equality, anyone?!


57 posted on 02/12/2018 3:37:51 PM PST by cranked
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To: cranked

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Exactly what are these “genders” of which you speak?
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58 posted on 02/12/2018 3:40:02 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Kind of a given, yes...or is this some PC language game?


59 posted on 02/12/2018 3:42:38 PM PST by cranked
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To: NorthMountain

He’d Better get on the stick. Women definitely could NOT have cut Armor in Vietnam.


60 posted on 02/12/2018 3:44:48 PM PST by onedoug
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