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Marine Corps Ends Female Infantry Officer Program. Guess How Many Graduated?
Libertarian Republic ^ | 4/9/2015

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: feminaziepicfailure
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1 posted on 04/09/2015 4:05:36 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

We all knew it was ZERO goal item.


2 posted on 04/09/2015 4:08:08 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Altura Ct.

Good on the gals who applied.


3 posted on 04/09/2015 4:10:27 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Altura Ct.

Jesus, Mary & Joesph.

This equality crap stops at with the USMC!

Semper Fi


4 posted on 04/09/2015 4:10:28 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Hip fracture city.


5 posted on 04/09/2015 4:12:08 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Altura Ct.

Wait, wait! Don’t tell me. Let me guess.

ZERO?


6 posted on 04/09/2015 4:14:04 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Jacquerie

Why?


7 posted on 04/09/2015 4:16:31 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Altura Ct.

Good for the Corps


8 posted on 04/09/2015 4:17:26 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Altura Ct.

But......????
In school weren’t they were told they could be anything they wanted to be???


9 posted on 04/09/2015 4:19:20 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Good for the Marine Corps for maintaining the standards, Bambam won’t be happy.


10 posted on 04/09/2015 4:20:12 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Jacquerie

For wasting our time and money, and wanting to hurt our ability to fight and the Marine Corps, and to feed their feminist politics over duty?

I question their being officers at all, they obviously put self over everything, each one of them was hoping that she would be the one, the glory hog to hurt the Marine Corps and our ability to win wars and cause deaths.


11 posted on 04/09/2015 4:25:01 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: Altura Ct.

The end. Finally.

Semper fi.


12 posted on 04/09/2015 4:27:41 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: Altura Ct.

If you can’t fight, get out of the Corps.


13 posted on 04/09/2015 4:28:01 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Altura Ct.

In a sane world, that would be the end of that.


14 posted on 04/09/2015 4:29:44 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Jacquerie

Bullshit


15 posted on 04/09/2015 4:32:38 PM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: Altura Ct.; All

I commend the female Marines for doing their best to try to complete their mission.


16 posted on 04/09/2015 4:33:53 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ComputerGuy; MinuteGal

I don’t want female combat troops any more than I want female firemen while I am trapped and needing to be pulled out of a burning building or taken down a fireman’s ladder. And I don’t want female police officers guarding murderers going to and from court. I guess I’m just one of those prejudiced women, lol.


17 posted on 04/09/2015 4:34:26 PM PDT by flaglady47 (The useful idiots always go first)
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To: Altura Ct.

I’m sure some tough as hell lady Marines attempted and I salute them. They’re a credit to the Corps and the country. Keep your heads up, Marines!


18 posted on 04/09/2015 4:36:13 PM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: Altura Ct.

The USMC tends to be more honest about such things.


19 posted on 04/09/2015 4:37:32 PM PDT by jimfree (In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Altura Ct.
ZERO!

20 posted on 04/09/2015 4:37:58 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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