Posted on 09/11/2015 11:30:52 AM PDT by jazusamo
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus criticized Friday the findings of a new Marine report that all-male combat units perform better on a number of tactical tasks than mixed-gender units.
Mr. Mabus, the civilian secretary who leads the Navy Department — including the Marine Corps — has called for the Navy to open combat jobs to women, and said the latest report may have been tainted by negative attitudes from the beginning.
“They started out with a fairly largely component of the men thinking this is not a good idea, and women will not be able to do this,” he said in an interview with NPR.
The report, released Thursday, was conducted over a 9-month period at two separate training camps and is part of a Marine Corps experiment to study integrating women into the infantry in order to meet a 2012 order by then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to open all military jobs, including combat roles, to women.
Services must open all jobs to women by January, or else submit requests for exemptions to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter by the end of this month.
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Navy Secretary Mabus rejects reality.
Deny Deny Deny...Die
Well at least he rejected it instead of changing it to mean something that wasn’t true.
And BTW my daughter served 4.5 years in the USMC. Boot camp was extremely tough for the women, including her. She went in in February and finished in June.
Why bother with a study when you already know what the outcome should be?
the longer these upper management types deny reality the more americans will die.This crap is out of control...we are the power.
This mabus fool is a typical Clown Prince nobama appointee: feckless, flaccid, weak (and probably homo).
I’d guess that Mabus’ “attitude” might be politically-inspired from the get-go
What a panderer and denialist . . .in charge of USN
Under Cruz ALL military democrats should be vetted for treason.. ALL OF THEM.. i.e. lie detector..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFnBayhiRVk
Typical of an administration living in a false reality.
Ship of fools and stooges.
Obama and Mabus think a woman can hold an umbrella as well as a man. Case closed.
Mabus is just another footsoldier on Hussein’s War Against America.
Just don’t say anything about their faces, though.
That’s where women can’t take the heat, even if they’re running for prez
Yep, he caters to 0bama’s every wish.
I thought this was settled science. lol
What’s the point of ordering a report — and then rejecting its findings?
At Tarawa in 1943, the Marines were pinned down on the beach behind a five foot high sea wall. If they stayed pinned on the beach, they would eventually all be killed. In order to get off the beach they had to take out two pillboxes, and the only weapon they had at hand for job was an anti-tank gun. They had to get the gun up on top of the seawall, but it weighed 700 pounds. The Captain didn’t think the Marines could physically do it, but he ordered his men to do it anyway. Somehow, they had the strength to lift it up there, operated it and took out those pillboxes. The Marines got off the beach and took the island.
Women cannot do that. They lack the upper body strength. It’s a fact that no amount of political correctness or social engineering can change. If there were women on the beach, the anti-tank gun would still be sitting in the sand below the sea wall, surrounded by dead Marines. Tarawa would still be held by the Japanese.
In all objectivity, when our men in the Marines lose their lives in combat, due to a girl (yes, I said that!), send the dog tags directly to this POS, whether at that moment he is IN office, or retired, personally.
“It’s not true, and even if it is, it shouldn’t be published, and I will ignore it and punish those involved.”
Doesn’t fit the Obama agenda so it’s rejected .... like those analyst assessments of the efforts against ISIS. Reality & truth mean nothing to these Leftists.
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