Posted on 10/06/2015 8:48:39 AM PDT by PROCON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) The U.S. Marine Corps has unveiled new physical standards that all recruits male and female must meet to qualify for 29 of the branchs jobs.
The new gender-neutral standards could make it a lot harder for boot camp recruits and Officer Candidates to obtrain certain positions, according to the Marine Corps Times. These fields include infantry, combat engineering, tanks and amphibious assault vehicles, close-air support, and ground ordnance.
One of the standards all recruits must meet is being able to evacuate a casualty, and conduct an MK19 grenade launcher lift. Most posts in the Marine Corps might have differing qualifications. The Daily Caller reports the standards arrived a day before the deadline for U.S. military officials to submit an exemption request for keeping combat roles open only to men.
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Coward.
Idiot.
Maybe you can tell that to my VA Doctors.
Anybody who starts spouting off about drafting girls is a coward. What are you seeing the VA for? PTSD?
Idiot.
The “Make me a sammich” duty is non gendered specific.
Yeah, but I’m not the one hiding behind skirts.
The Russians had females in Combat Arms. They don’t any more.
The Israelis had female Infantry paratroopers. Some of them were captured in the 1956 War. The Israelis don’t have females in Combat Arms anymore.
The real world tells us that females in Combat Arms units don’t work. That hasn’t stopped the liberals from winning every argument on this matter.
Every time a male talks about this issue, the liberals squawk that it’s just male prejudice. The only way to win this argument is for females to step up and say “We don’t think this is a good idea.” And right now, they aren’t doing that because this argument doesn’t affect 99% of the female population. They don’t care because they don’t have to.
A Draft would force them to become involved.
Then, we wouldn’t have the disaster that is surely now heading our way. We are going to suffer needless casualties because the liberals want to play political games with our military.
I don’t think women should be in the Combat Arms, but ignoring it or saying they are too dainty is a losing position. We have to find a way to win this argument and I think my way will win.
And by the way, you’re still an idiot.
If you read that article you shlould know the dept of the navy including therefore the usmc was already in with a program before the army.
Army was the last of the services to adopt these standards.
If, allegedly, you served in our armed forces then you should know better. If you served in combat as I have, then it's even worse.
The whole woman-in-the-draft discussion is usually just some weirdo draft-avoiding libertarian or worse.
You should be ashamed of yourself: no self-respecting man would ever suggest such a thing.
Yep, you’re an idiot.
I think I can guess what your VA disability is for.
A sack of cement or so.. A good lug indeed.
I’d rather be the guy carrying the command iPad.
But in my day.. ;-)
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