Posted on 01/05/2019 11:34:29 AM PST by lowbridge
For the first time in its history, the Marine Corps will integrate female and male platoons during boot camp.
Unlike the other services, the Marine Corps has not fully integrated women and men during recruit training. Instead, at Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, the first three battalions are all-male, while the fourth battalion is all-female.
"On January 5, 2019, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, will start their training cycle with one female platoon and five male platoons," the Marine Corps said in a statement Friday, first reported by ABC News.
While the change is not permanent, a Marine Corps spokesman told ABC News that the service "will certainly look at how the company performs in this model as we continually evaluate how we make Marines."
The Marine Corps, which has the lowest percentage of women among the services at just under 9 percent, decided to incorporate the 50 female recruits into the historically all-male battalion because the recruiting classes are typically much smaller in the winter months. The integration allowed Parris Island to not activate 4th Recruit Training Battalion staff for a single female platoon.
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So is this you?
No it is part of the community, surface ships and air, I was submarines.
It is called Dirsup.
direct support any where any time.
No women on ships. That is very bad idea and the policy needs to be halted ASAP.
There have been women on ships since the 70s.
Submarines are called “boats”
They got them on there too now.
I said over a decade ago this will be an issue, just for the “did you bring enough gum for everyone perspective”
100 enlisted men 2 showers for them, and 1 shower for 14 officers is bad enough, now they got 14 females officers bunked up over there, and we all wondering what’s going on in there, but hey we get to keep our showers.
Now there are 24, officers, half of them split tails telling us 100 how to run the boat.
You want to know who owns the boat? THE COB!!
There are 100+ of us and 14 of you and yer pissing me off.
I spent 4 years at sea on a warship. There were no women at all. However they were sucking up all the nice shore billets and it was not fair at all. BTW my job was to find and sink those “boats”.
Now excuse me, I need to go meet a man at Marwar Junction
Plenty of women have served on ships.
Going on a hot mission is not a good idea, it’s rough on the gals, it’ rough on the guys.
And it is a big mistake. A joke. But you are liberal so I get it. Women have the strength of 14 year old boys. In fact the US women Soccer team practices against MIDDLE SCHOOL BOY SOCCER TEAMS.
Yeah I am Liberal LOL
You are funny too!
Look, half the trouble in the world is woman trouble, and that plain is unacceptable on a mission.
I get it, but plenty of women are meaner than cat ****
I always tell my brother, you are suffering estrogen poisoning! LOL Yer surrounded!
A 120 pound mean cat isn’t going to pull up a 200+ pound sailor three decks when the ship is on fire.
You know what’s a hoot?
When the boat is on fire and flooding LOL
50 female recruits?
What will the dropout rate be?
50 female recruits!
The trick is not to get the boat on fire :)
“The same thing happened in the corporate world. The HR department is dominated by women, the Engineering Department not so much.”
I think we greatly underestimate the degree of harm done by female-dominated HR departments to our economy and our society.
I’m not an expert on HR, but I tend to agree with your assessment. My FIL, who was an Electrical Engineer was the VP of Personnel for a regional power company. He got his job based on his WWII experience as the Training and Safety Office for his B-17 wing. He trained and mentored his replacement, also a male engineer. He was the last male head of HR. The lack of engineering knowledge and line experience showed in the HR operation.
That may be true of penis negative women. But a penis positive woman like Zoey Tur cannot easily be broken in half - not by the average man.
I don’t have all the answers but I wonder what do they do in Israel?
Rush Limbaugh was ahead of the curve....
All American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPwlOOKedg
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