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Marine Corps integrates male and female platoons during boot camp for the first time
abc ^ | January 4, 2019 | ELIZABETH MCLAUGHLIN

Posted on 01/05/2019 11:34:29 AM PST by lowbridge

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To: lowbridge

Political correct stupidity is this.

During the last Iraq war my son was a combat medic. He is also a weight lifter. His unit loved him and protected their doc. They knew if it got bad their doc could lift and carry their wounded body and then save their ass. He did not carry a rifle just his side arm. He needed his hands free. Few women can do this.

When back at camp his men would tell him to lift weights and eat.

Today he is an rn with the va. He will be a nurse practioner in a few months. He is still taking care of his boys but most of them r Vietnam vets and a few from ww11


61 posted on 01/05/2019 12:58:58 PM PST by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: doorgunner69

The streets of heaven are paved with gold. Am I right or wrong? Female boot camp 1969! Fort McClellan Al.


62 posted on 01/05/2019 1:02:05 PM PST by cotton (one way, one truth, the life.)
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To: doorgunner69

“I don’t know, but I’ve been told......…”.

Eskimo -—— is mighty cold”.

I wonder what they sing in cadence these days.


63 posted on 01/05/2019 1:16:26 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: lowbridge
comfort girls in the USMC... wonderful!
64 posted on 01/05/2019 1:16:56 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: sparklite2

Used to see personalized license plates when stationed at Beale AFB in the early 80s with the LCWB belonging to our “Sirs” that were Academy graduates from that class in the 349th AREFS and 350th AREFS parking lots. It always made me smile as most folks on base didn’t have a clue about the origin.


65 posted on 01/05/2019 1:23:25 PM PST by KC-10A BOOMER (Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of War!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
That article is incredible misleading.

Exactly, thank you.

Adding a female platoon, even what is essentially a combat-reinforced platoon, to an all male battalion is almost insignificant - at least before a casualty count.

But if they trained together at the fire team, level and the results were measured objectively, it would reveal the (unworkable) realities of how well females operate under the stressful circumstances of an environment specifically designed to favor males.

66 posted on 01/05/2019 1:32:20 PM PST by frog in a pot ("Islam - a totalitarian ideology masquerading as a religion bent on world domination." -Admiral Lyon)
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To: Cowboy Bob

“Who is pushing this crap?”

You have to go back to the 50s and 60s for the fast forward portion of the cultural revolution. Think MKUltra and the CIA. Their goal was to find ways to culturally change nations and destroy family cohesion. Congress shut them down but they just moved to Canada. But I don’t think they are the ones in charge.


67 posted on 01/05/2019 1:37:30 PM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: gaijin; All

Dam right!

Furthermore, I do not see how ANY MALE RECRUIT can respect a female Drill Instructor that cannot even pass the same P.T. test that males Marines have to pass. It REEKS of P.C. crap.

Why P.C. BULL$HIT happening?


68 posted on 01/05/2019 1:51:12 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: yesthatjallen

It make me wonder if now the Marines will have to change physically challenging exercises and drills to accommodate the women folk?


69 posted on 01/05/2019 2:09:42 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: lowbridge

Horrible!


70 posted on 01/05/2019 2:16:33 PM PST by fortheDeclaration
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To: mylife

Mylife is a liar. No one ever scrubbed a “head” ( which is what its called in the navy) with a toothbrush. So tell him to gtfo and go lie someplace else. USN MM1/SS NUC Whos been stationed in orlando.


71 posted on 01/05/2019 2:19:04 PM PST by Ikeon (i may be wrong but I'm not lying. .....really....)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The hospital ship Comfort was called the “love boat” during Desert Storm.


72 posted on 01/05/2019 2:20:04 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: lowbridge

“Get some!”


73 posted on 01/05/2019 2:23:32 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: mountn man

Where was “Maddog”

He may have been eagerly push’n right along


74 posted on 01/05/2019 2:40:02 PM PST by Huaynero
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To: Enlightened1

Women do have a place in our armed forces as support. This frees up a man with sufficient upper body strength to be a warrior on the field of battle. This is good.

I have no problem with a female combat pilot so long as the same standards of proficiency in training is applied to them. It does not take a lot of strength to fly a jet. If they can fly it and have the killer instinct, this is okay.

In close combat on the field of battle a womans presence changes the psychology of the men. It is instinctive to protect a woman and thus degrades fighting efficiency.

In the air a woman combat pilot is just another fighting aircraft and does not change the psychology of air combat.


75 posted on 01/05/2019 2:43:10 PM PST by cpdiii
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To: gaijin

Been there. Seen it firsthand. Makes me wanna puke.


76 posted on 01/05/2019 2:47:26 PM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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To: DarthVader

Hospital ship? You could deliver on site.


77 posted on 01/05/2019 2:47:50 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine ( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

LOL!! Exactly!! That is one reason they are not putting ladies on the boomers anymore. Too much time in a close space. Probability of pregnancy is high.


78 posted on 01/05/2019 2:50:01 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of today be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: lowbridge

‘Sgt., I can’t go on the mission tonight, I think I may be pregnant’.


79 posted on 01/05/2019 2:51:27 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: cpdiii
How liberal of you.

Women take up the easy REMF jobs that are supposed to be the reward for taking arduous assignments. If you have never been in the military you would know this. It isn't fair and it sucks.

Women should not be it the military except for the medical services.

80 posted on 01/05/2019 3:04:54 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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