Posted on 04/09/2015 4:05:36 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
An 18 month trial period allowing female Marines to attend the Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course will end without a single female graduate, reported the Marine Corps Times.
The opportunity for female volunteers is part of a larger effort to determine the feasibility of allowing female officers to take part in ground combat operations. If anyone had successfully completed the course, they would not have earned the occupational designator or entered the infantry, since the program was only an experiment.
The IOC began accepting female officers in September 2012, but by July 2014, only 20 female officers had volunteered, and none had completed the course. Only one volunteer made it through the initial Combat Endurance Test.
In October 2014 the Marine Corps broadened the requirements for applicants to encourage more volunteers, making hundreds more Marines eligible. But new applicants also had to have a first-class score on the male-version of the Physical Fitness Test.
Seven more women volunteered, and three managed to pass the Combat Endurance Test, but none successfully completed the course.
The most recent and final course began April 2 with two female officers, but both were dropped the first day after failing to complete the Combat Endurance Test, a spokesperson for Headquarters Marine Corps told the Marine Corps Times.
The goal was for 100 women to complete the course, but only 29 in total made an attempt, and none of them passed.
The number of volunteers, their pass rate and their performance will be considered along with other data, such as the success rate for female Marines in completing a separate Infantry training course in North Carolina.
The information will be compiled for Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., who will make a recommendation to the Department of Defense on whether to allow female troops to take part in ground combat operations.
Shudda’ called in for GI Jane!
Trust me, gals. You don’t want to go there, dyke, fem, or whatever. Just stay home.
The Marine Corps needs REMF’s too.
They’re called Pogues.
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No, not good on them. Bad on them for trying to break in on something they have no right to be a part of.
Active Duty ping.
0?? 0 that is big EPIC FAIL
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have passed even when I was young and fit. There’s a pretty small minority even of men that can make it through this thing.
Talk to somebody who fought in the Pusan Perimeter before writing a statement like that; every man an infantryman.
See post 11.
They were trying to break the Marine Corps, ideally each one of them would be carefully looked at to see if they should remain in, or have their careers ended and removed from the military they were trying to harm.
>>And I don’t want female police officers guarding murderers going to and from court.
You’re not from Atlanta, are you? Because that is essentially the Brian Nichols story. Big bruiser of a criminal, left alone with a grandmotherly deputy county marshal in a room at the courthouse. The results were not pretty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nichols
There are some things that MEN need to do, and metrosexual hipsters need not apply, nor women.
Good on the Marine Core for not lowering their standards, playing the game and allowing women to try, and then proving the point that it takes a man to do some things. We are all created equal, but different! Thank God for those differences!
Women (most) do not make good men. Men (all) do not make good women. Why must we waste good money to prove what is obvious? Have we gone totally insane?
And, no one can say the obvious without being hounded!
Yes it has worked out well so far. Remember this one. One small woman taking a hulking prisoner back to his cell led to four deaths.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Nichols
My emotional side agrees with you. But my practical side says, “No way”.
I was with armored cavalry in Vietnam. No woman could have stood up to it. And it was a lot tougher in the infantry.
Paging Lizard Jarrett: time to call the marine commandant ; it’s time to lower standards.
That’s ridiculous. The very spirit of the Marine Corps instills a sense of personal challenge, growth and excellence. Clearly, others are trying to break the Marine Corps but these women are not the enemy.
Those female officers, not a single one of them qualified, were trying to make the Marine infantry into a female operation, a disastrous thing if they had succeeded.
They all need to be looked at as to whether they are unsuitable and disloyal to the Marine Corp and their supposed mission.
It’s not over til the fat ladies at NOW say its over. They will probably say the requirements were biased against their gender and therefore inherently impossible for females to graduate.
They will try and get the requirements watered down.
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