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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I’m a chick and totally get it.
Until their periods start synching up.
I still want to know if any female can drag a 150-200 pound sack of potatoes for at least 50 yards in under 10 or 15 seconds.
Seriously? LOL
Dude, in boot camp?
You know what they do in OCS school in Pensacola?
After one particularly difficult day of training they interviewed a group of male recruits and female recruits.
The males were clearly sore,tired and even dispirited by their day.But each one made it clear that they were still good to go and that they could hack it.
The females,during *their* interview,were crying like little girls.
I kid you not!
I've never been in,or near,combat but my gut tells me that I wouldn't want any of those women in the foxhole next to mine during a firefight.
Just saw one of my friends moments ago MM2 SS.
I gave him shit cuz he was wearing bib overalls (I aint never seen this attire before, farmer dave)
You know what? he smiled, the boy has to know how
to split atoms and get poison out of the air.
We scrubbed the toilets of the latrine (which is what it's called in the Army) with a toothbrush at Fort Knox in '69! They called it a "GI Party".
You were there when the boat got a NUC?
You know what a CTM is?
Lowering standards, I’d say.
You sound bitter.
Yeah cpdiii is liberal LOL
My guess is that neither one of you were ever in the military.
But on tv and in movies, the 100lb iffy and knock the stuffing out of any 250lb guy.
Has to true, I saw it on tv and in the movies.
He fights back and wins, no big deal, he beat up a woman.
In some countries women work out pretty good, or so it seams with places like Israel and some of the freedom fighters in the various middle east wars. I think the Soviet Army’s use of women worked out well too.
A problem I see with America is how the guys will react and the quality of women that get in. Political correctness will take over.
Do or die situations like in my first paragraph above the women are there because they have to be. In America, there is no do or die scenario - YET!
Yep. She takes out a guy twice her size with a dance kick.
Quite frankly, I think if you filled a submarine full of women, it would be a hella attack force.
112 women all menstruating? Holy moly, stand by..
Mixing on a mission presents issues, there is always a fight 2 weeks in, and you gotta get that guys head clear and focused on the mission instead of the woman that was not issued in your seabag.
Then 2 weeks from port the same jerk gets squirrelly so we sit him down again...
You are funny.
Do you have tattoos? I do not.
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