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.
Although my reply probably could have been worded better, my intention was to compliment the uniform despite the politics.
So 0 will just order them to lower their standards.
They were betraying the uniform.
This woman shares your views. All of this PC nonsense is just an attempt to destroy the warrior culture, to weaken our nation’s ability to defend itself. Shocking to me that some FReepers are taken in by this stuff.
No salutes from this woman. They should stay the heck out of the military, IMO.
Amen!
Well said.
Yep, same here.
Amen, sister!
Can you imagine how long the list would be for covering all the quite OBVIOUS reasons this was never going to work and a hair brained scheme to begin with.
LOL!
ho could have seen this coming? When a mediocre high school basketball team can beat a WBA team, why would you attempt to make women into combat marines?
Being a “lady” and, “tough as hell”, strikes me as closing in on an oxymoron. Infantry, while being a woman, doesn’t cut it in the Marines. But we all knew that didn’t we?
A huge experiment in futility, and not exactly cost free, but salute away if you must. The “ladies” got their bustle handed to them alright. But we all knew that, too.
BINGO.
Let’s not hold our breath. Standards could be turned into corsets any day.
I bet they are younger Freepers, and by now used to the feminization of America. They think it is “normal”.
Who could have predicted that? :-)
Nah, they’ll just lower the standards.
Here they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV1qntsbLq0
This is a big lie. Everyone is equal. How can this be but LIES?!
LOL.
You’re right!
The Marines kept their standards and the results were predictable. Only those who can pass the standards get through. There is a high washout rate with males in infantry school. Females aren’t going to be any different. However, the women are at a biological disadvantage that cannot be ignored — unless you reduce the standards to allow the women to pass. The marines did not, and that is to their lasting credit. Well done, Marines!
The Army is running its first female Ranger class. It will be interesting whether the Army maintains the Ranger standards for males AND females or they reduce the standards to allow the girls to pass. I don’t think the Rangers are going to put up with this kind of PC based manipulation. All of the Spec Ops crowd knows Affirmative Action type standards for males and females only kill soldiers when they go into battle.
Obi is going to have another hissy fit.
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