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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RIP Tommy Cox
Sailors Prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3itNeF-fCNo
Now I am not so sure of some of my buddies... Vets and members of all types of questionable organizations LOL
I have a friend, lifetime member of the VFW, but he was in the chair force on them RJ 135s, he got a membership down at that Knights of Columbus.
He thinks its a secret society, I said “we know what yall up too down there”
Them Shriners, Elks and Odd Fellows too
I am glad they stopped thinking a gemale would enhance a subs mission. We used to have one thought about a woman on board, therr would be a line and she’d come back rich and probably pregnant.
LCWB - I though Last Class Without B*tches.. my bad.
Female datilors get pregnant because there are 100 guys all trying to get in. their pants 24/7, and they cant get away from them. be it rape, homemade hooch, trying to get a shore billet, or some hot guy they meet and fall in love with. or shes just easy.. At sea, looks are graded on a curve
A CTM is a rider, a tender puke, a handbag holding, coffee sucking, waste of breathing air, 1st in the lunchline, hollywood showering, 3 hours, 4 days a week, beach bum, who plays with himself all day while cruising fat fillipino ladyboy porn. and starts bitching because its 1300 and they haven’t hit the beach yet.
in otherwords ctm’s used to be called “radioman”
My cousin Donna was stationed on a sub tender, the USS Dixon.
I hate sub tenders with a passion, “permission to come aboard” and all that BS.
I found some old orders the other day and USS Frank Cable was mentioned. I had to scan the old brain bucket... Frank Cable?
I seriously did not remember, I remember USS Proteous.
OOD gave me shit on Proteous demanded to know who my OIC was.
I told him I was on independent ops.
He was not amused. skimmer pukes.
Weary of his BS and needing to deinstall my gear, I relinquished and gave him a contact.
Mud the Maggot Mad Dog said, let the man go.
LOL
Years later I heard of Rep Hank Johnsons concern that our presence may tip over the island...
The frank cable was on the east coast back in the day. And yes they were a pita. you had to change into clean dungarees to go aboard to pick up anything from supply.- No poopie suits.. The food was always good but you had to pay for it if you weren’t assigned to it. Bunch of 9-5’ers didnt understand subs aren’t 9-5. and the gung ho marines that yelled “move away from the hall” guarding the nuclear weapons.
I did not trust Mud and he did not like me but he was OK.
Now I have the dirt on him, I trust him more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3rDnZelzo
Do what Marines say.
The food in Charleston is astounding.
I never heard of grits WTF is a grit?
I thought it was cream of wheat LOL, so I mashed a well in it, put butter in there, sprinkled sugar over it and poured milk over the entire thing.
Horrified, this Ga fellow yelled WTF are you doing?!~~
He explained the grit, and how I had embarrassed his honor in dixie.
Butter and black pepper son.
I still don’t get black eyed peas... :)
USS Frank Cable was designed as a submarine tender for Los Angeles-class submarines. The ship spent 1980 until 1996 as the repair ship for SUBRON 4 and 18 in Charleston, South Carolina, tending Sturgeon and Benjamin Franklin-class submarines.
I still hate tenders, but have a place in my heart for the lowly tug boat.
Ships movement.
My Sea Daddy was a 4.0 sailor, but one day in Pusan, he was shacked up with this girl and when the boat left the pier he was not onboard.
The Commander was worried that, he may lose this asset and there be a blemish on both their careers, so he lingered for a bit stalling.
Then here it comes... weeee! Weeeee! WEEEE!
Tony had liberated a moped, which he launched right off the pier and he is swimming or the boat LOL!
The Skipper pinched his nose and declared “He is on a US fighting ship now, laws of foreign lands are no longer applicable to this man.”
*whisper* Never return to Pusan
DeNiro is puke, but Harry Tuttle is a personal Hero... a guy on his own.. get in get out..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfoIyx8KfU
I guess your OK fore a Snipe.
My friend is one, he does good work.
One day he was showing me this faux cigarette case he machined out of a billet of aircraft grade aluminum.
It concealed a place for his stash, and a spring loaded pipe.
On the front, milled into it said “property of (insert name)”
I said that is some fine work (insert name) :)
I am average old fit, lean, medium, with various past injuries. I am always surprised to find how much stronger I am than the women I know.
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