ANYONE who has served with females in the fields KNOWS FIRSTHAND what's going on here.
And the brass regularly lies their a$ses off about it.
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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Who is pushing this crap?
What could possibly go wrong..?
Probably the transgender lobby. It seems to be the most powerful and effective force in national politics today.
Where was “Maddog” when this was being pushed???
Thank you Mattis! /s
He was pushing it
Making new Marines
Where was “Maddog” when this was being pushed???
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This was being pushed before Mattis became Sec. Def. He was aware of it the whole time and did nothing about it.
The presence of women would have destroyed unit cohesion in Vietnam. So the damnocrats did it for them.
Only 9% today ? hmmm.. I don’t recall anywhere near that high a percentage in the early 70s. Maybe it was just me. Hanging with BAMs was not my thing at that time.
Certainly adds some new challenges to Boot Camp.. PT should be interesting. Will PCism win out tho in the end?
Hey, it worked out pretty good in Starship Troopers. Are they going to share showers too?
So glad the swamp rat was exterminated from the cabinet.
When the epitaph is written for our republic, one of the reasons for the death will be the absurd, idiotic notion that we needed to turn women into combat soldiers.
“Maddog” was probably trying on a new negligee. I am not sorry to see this tranny enabler hit the road!
SecDef Leon Panetta and Ash Carter instituted full integration of women into combat roles. Mattis publicly expressed doubts, but did not halt the practice.
ANYONE who has served with females in the fields KNOWS FIRSTHAND what's going on here.
And the brass regularly lies their a$ses off about it.
Booty camp!
Oh how sweet. Won’t they be cute playing soldier?
Really, what could go wrong? I hear it works great on Navy ships.
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