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Navy Secretary Mabus rejects Marine report showing women perform worse than men in combat roles
The Washington Times ^ | September 11, 2015 | Kellan Howell

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: combat; feminism; mabus; marinecorps; navysecretary; obama; women; womenincombat
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To: jazusamo

But of course if the test revealed the woman had succeeded then he would have accepted the results.
Guy is an ass............


61 posted on 09/11/2015 12:43:18 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: jazusamo

The desk jockeys closest to the nancy-boy CinC know best.


62 posted on 09/11/2015 12:47:13 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: stanne

Probably, but I’ll bet that it is someone from the left - consistency is never a big concern for them...


63 posted on 09/11/2015 12:54:33 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: riverdawg; CA Conservative

It seems there is a common theme on the Left to deny reality, & to try & force their version of Utopia on the world. It is deadly and cruel.


64 posted on 09/11/2015 1:03:06 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Terry L Smith

You know it’s going to happen because the PC imbeciles that run our gov’t are hell bent on destroying us.

Mabus is a fool!


65 posted on 09/11/2015 1:06:04 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This Hispanic wants a wall, the National Guard, and turrets guarding our border)
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To: Terry L Smith

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.

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That isn’t going to bother this clown. When we lose a Marine due to his lying policies, one of his family members should be executed.


66 posted on 09/11/2015 1:06:07 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: CA Conservative

Agree


67 posted on 09/11/2015 1:06:42 PM PDT by stanne
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To: jazusamo

From where do these stupid sons of bilchs come?


68 posted on 09/11/2015 1:09:58 PM PDT by Rannug ("all enemies, foreign and : domestic")
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To: Terry L Smith

Certainly they matter to us.
I lost a very good friend when the Marines were murdered in Beirut, Lebanon, 1983.

I was there to see his ailing father look at a casket tagged “remains not for viewing”.

Yes, each Marine and soldier is special to me.

Our elected leaders however have no regrets about the life or death of individuals.
To them, service members are pawns to be used and discarded when need be.

I think political leaders should be held responsible for the lives of every service member that serves during their terms in office.

Grieving family members, and friends, try to put the pieces back together even though a key piece of the puzzle of their lives is missing.

Politicians go on to the next deal, the next election.
Nothing changes for them.


69 posted on 09/11/2015 1:41:13 PM PDT by oldvirginian (A proud CRUZ CRAZY.)
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To: jazusamo

Women in combat is just another socialist fantasy that goes way back and has never worked. And just like the communists before them, they have four excuses of why their brilliant religious faith doctrines fail miserably:

1) Not enough funding.
2) Unfair competition, which amounts to any competition.
3) Sabotage.
4) It just hasn’t been done long enough or hard enough.

Importantly, tens of millions of people have suffered, starved and died because of their experiments in failure, and they never, ever learn. Absolute lack of pattern recognition.

After seventy years of this stubborn, bullheaded resistance to abject failure, the Soviet Union was in ruins, a chemical and radiological polluted disaster area. And it still hadn’t persuaded the communists to change their mind one iota.

They are impervious to logic, reason, experiment, persuasion, coercion, and having their noses rubbed in their own excrement while being swatted with a newspaper.

If someone could just figure out some way so that they could systematically kill themselves, and only themselves, as a way to prove to themselves that socialism does work, that person would be a savior of mankind.

For well over a hundred years this misery and death cult has found an endless number of defective units in which to propagate its stupidity. It needs to end.


70 posted on 09/11/2015 1:54:08 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: jazusamo

Soon to come is the pay back for the people conducting the study. They were informed of the expected result and were to tailor the study data, summary and recommendation to expected result ... an arrogant Harvard graduate will not take the b!tch slap to the face lightly!


71 posted on 09/11/2015 2:04:07 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Bernie Sanders for President of Venuzuela ...a failed communist for a failed communist state!)
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To: jazusamo
Career over country. You see that a lot these days.
72 posted on 09/11/2015 3:22:46 PM PDT by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: Iron Munro
Mabus was a Squid. Democrat Squids are The Worst.

Must be a case of Man Envy with them Demmie Squids, and Marines.

73 posted on 09/11/2015 4:38:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
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To: jazusamo
Why did he bother with the test if he wasn't going to accept the results?
74 posted on 09/11/2015 5:00:17 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon)
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To: PghBaldy
The average difference in athletic ability between males and females is about 10%. That might not seem like a lot, but it's huge.

That means that while Serena might be as much as 5% better than the rest of the female pros, she's still 5% behind the top male players. 5% is a huge gap to overcome when you're talking about the best players in the world.

Jokovic, Federer, Murray, and Nadal are probably 10% better than Serena. The German pro was probably about 5%. That was enough for him to easily trounce the Williams sisters.

75 posted on 09/11/2015 5:13:37 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: jazusamo
A lot more Marines will die in the future than need to die - both male and female.

Thanks, Mabus.

Political Correctness is just murder disguised as cuddly feelings.

76 posted on 09/11/2015 7:42:46 PM PDT by Gritty (For the GOP-e the issue is Trump; for the base the issue is the GOP establishment - Mark Steyn)
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To: Gritty

No, that won’t happen. The guys will just cap the girls in the buttocks two minutes into the deployment so they can actually get on with fighting.


77 posted on 09/11/2015 7:45:45 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Gritty

You’re absolutely right and this s***head and his boss could care less.


78 posted on 09/11/2015 7:48:21 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Pentagon Leatherneck

Sadly, they hold them for Obama and Turkish heads of state.

While Obama jokes about it, no less.


79 posted on 09/11/2015 9:39:36 PM PDT by M1911A1 (My red line is Jeb Bush.)
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To: jazusamo

If the combat exclusion is lifted will women be assigned to combat arms units as a matter of policy. Having served in the infantry, artillery and also in logistics, I can tell you the average gal ain’t cutting it in the 1/504th PIR.


80 posted on 09/12/2015 2:09:14 PM PDT by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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