Posted on 10/26/2014 11:25:52 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Just weeks after three women passed a rigorous day-long test qualifying them to potentially lead US Marine infantrymen for the first time in history, news came that all three women have been asked to leave the course.
They were physically disqualified from the training last week for falling behind in hikes while carrying loads of upwards of 100 pounds, says Maj. George Flynn, director of the Infantry Officers Course (IOC) at Quantico, Va.
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oo-RAH!
how about the local PD’s with 5’4 petite officers on the force..guess what,they cant do the job either nor can a petite fireman
Affirmative action jeopardized everyones safety
You bring up an interesting point. However, don't we want the best of the best to lead soldiers? Sure, bring more women into combat but you still want performance otherwise failure can bring tragedy.
——At the end of the day the Marines, like all services, need to find ways to bring women into combat, to respect that they can and should be equal participants, that they have different physical limits——
That is about the stupidest comment I have ever read on FP...bar none...
I’v read a few quite a few...
My apologies if you were being sarcastic....
Even if the Marines are coerced into "respecting the different physical limits" of women in combat, our adversaries will not respect those limits.
Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends its cane-borne old men and non-shaving boys deserves to be destroyed and will be by societies that do not make that mistake.
Colonel Christian Wortman is the commander.
Liberals apparently want Women in War (where people actually die!). But they will be quick to scold the conservatives for engaging in a phoney War on Women.
Why don’t we just let the Marines set their own standards, instead of some armchair ex enlisted sailor.
So, how many Americans have died because of an officer able to carry a 124 pound backpack but too stupid to be in the role? I’d rather have brains entered into the equation, not just brawn.
Anyway, is 124 pounds a relevant and meaningful measure today? And back to the article, was the pace consistent? The article suggests there might be more to this story than the initial headline that they failed.
Even in the Navy there's MOS (Navy: 'Designator'/'NEC', or whatever) where they intentionally weed out a certain percentage of a class with a regimen designed to produce failures.
In USMC Infantry Officer's Course, there's NO question. They'll get rid of 30% of the men in that school. Some even on the first day. I've never seen a USMC infantry officer that wasn't an ostrich.
A female would have to be an Amazon Wookie Olympian Nuclear Mutant Lesboid to get through USMC OIC. One of them will make it eventually.
Hey, when I was 20 I might well have been able to do it after some extra training.
As regards these women, to get this far they are pretty tough and highly motivated. I congratulate them. But they are training for combat, life and death. If they really believe in what they are doing, each would agree that they should be out if they can't meet the standard. Men get dropped, why shouldn't they?
Could these women be examples of the war on women the Liberals have become obsessed with?
Major George Flynn, he is, google it......
Can she carry my 200 lb Marine 100 yards?
Why?
Seriously, why?
“They were physically disqualified from the training last week for falling behind in hikes while carrying loads of upwards of 100 pounds, says Maj. George Flynn, director of the Infantry Officers Course (IOC) at Quantico, Va.”
Of course they can’t. They’re women. Very few women can physically do things that men can do. They weren’t cut by the virtue of being women, but by the fact they are too weak for combat. People need to stop acting like something wrong happened here. They wouldn’t accept a man who can’t do, so why would they accept women who can’t do it?
And the fact is they can't meet the physical requirements that combat demands.
If you are in the Infantry, you have to carry that load, both enlisted and Officers.
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