Posted on 04/01/2018 6:34:11 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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But when I arrived at Parris Island in June 2014 to command Fourth Battalion — the only training unit for enlisted female recruits in the Marine Corps — I saw something that shocked me. Lined up behind the female formation stood a conspicuous row of chairs. I was told that if any of these women who were about to join the few and the proud felt tired or lightheaded, she was invited to sit. Men had no such luxury.
At that moment, I realized new Marines were taught that the corps had lower expectations for women.
One of my first actions with Fourth Battalion was to remove those chairs. But over the course of my command, I learned there were bigger obstacles to gender equality in the Marine Corps, the most male-dominated of the services. First and foremost, the corps was and remains the only military branch that largely separates men from women in basic training.
Almost as important, when I reviewed performance records at Parris Island, I realized that women hadn’t performed better than men in almost any category since records had been kept. That included academics, attrition and injury rates, marksmanship, even marching. Yet no one had questioned why or demanded improvements. No one believed the women could do better.
I was determined to prove they could. That meant fighting many decades of opposition to having women in front-line combat roles. This was especially true in the Marine Corps, where we say, “Every Marine a rifleman.” Those riflemen are the infantry troops who put themselves in the paths of bullets and bombs while carrying heavy rucksacks, who jump out of planes and otherwise subject their bodies to extreme wear and tear.
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Having read until my eyes glazed over, I come down on the side of Germano. She got better results than they had been getting and when she ran into the snowflake mentality, she exposed and shamed it. This is the Marine Corp, gals, not Private Benjamin’s Revenge.
Agreed. This article seems entirely untethered from some basic realities.
S*** what?
Absolutely true. Thanks for fixing it.
Typical lunatic.
Crazy eyes...
Hahaha. Fired! What a loser and an embarrassment to the Corps.
a little mustache and her fascism will really show.
Look a few posts later. Geez.
You are most welcome!
‘Crazy eyes...’
I don’t know; I find her quite attractive...
“they are out of their rate” means they cannot perform their job competently?
LOL! I used some military lingo that not all persons may be familiar with.
The implication our Master Gunner made by his comment was that women who are out of the rack (a military bed) are out of their rate.
As in “qualified for bedroom duties only.”
Gotcha! Thanks!
You are most welcome!
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