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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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
The streets of heaven are paved with gold. Am I right or wrong? Female boot camp 1969! Fort McClellan Al.
“I don’t know, but I’ve been told...... ”.
Eskimo -—— is mighty cold”.
I wonder what they sing in cadence these days.
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.
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.
“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.
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?
It make me wonder if now the Marines will have to change physically challenging exercises and drills to accommodate the women folk?
Horrible!
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.
The hospital ship Comfort was called the “love boat” during Desert Storm.
“Get some!”
Where was Maddog
He may have been eagerly push’n right along
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.
Been there. Seen it firsthand. Makes me wanna puke.
Hospital ship? You could deliver on site.
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.
‘Sgt., I can’t go on the mission tonight, I think I may be pregnant’.
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.
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