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Commandant to Marines: 'It's Time to Move Out' on Women in Combat
Military.com ^ | December 4, 2015 | Hope Hodge Seck

Posted on 12/05/2015 7:14:25 PM PST by QT3.14

The top officer of the Marine Corps sent an unequivocal message to troops: It's time to get behind the mandate to integrate women into combat units.

Gen. Robert Neller released a sternly worded video late Friday, a day after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that all military jobs -- including infantry and special forces positions -- would be open to female troops by the start of next year.

The Marine Corps was the only service to request that some fields remain closed to women, citing a yearlong co-ed infantry experiment that found gender-mixed units underperformed all-male ones.

Despite that, Neller made clear that the Marines were going to lose no time in conforming to the new mandate.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bs; combat; diversity; military; pc; usmc; war
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To: SVTCobra03

“We love all you navy boys. Every time we have to go someplace to fight, you fellas give us a ride.”


41 posted on 12/05/2015 7:58:43 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: sten

It’s deliberate sabotage.


42 posted on 12/05/2015 7:59:51 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: QT3.14

Is Gen. Neller really a Marine?


43 posted on 12/05/2015 8:00:52 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: QT3.14

Trump is going to have to purge the military and government agencies when he takes over. Do a 10% cut across the board and toss all the Obamabots overboard.


44 posted on 12/05/2015 8:02:21 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: dragnet2

So what is Hillary Clinton’s position on this?


If Hitlery should become president, she would find a lesbian dyke, promote her to 4 Star and she would become the new “Chairperson” of the Joint Chiefs. Dyke Four Stars would be Chief’s of Staff of all branches.


45 posted on 12/05/2015 8:04:29 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Vendome

how come i never find that in my fridge :)


46 posted on 12/05/2015 8:04:36 PM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Oh my God.......of course I hope my kids are more successful then I am. What a dunce you are. That SHOULD be every parents hope. You think I want my kids to make 117 a year like I do? Hell no. I want them to make 300K. Sheesh.....how insane of you to think such nonsense.


47 posted on 12/05/2015 8:09:56 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Finny

I know hundreds of them.....so I speak from experience and no some fantasy you have.


48 posted on 12/05/2015 8:11:03 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: QT3.14

I hate to say it, but I would NOT recommend any patriotic male joining the Armed Forces these days. The political correctness and a politicized leadership following asinine ideologies and orders - will get you killed, out of sheer stupidity.


49 posted on 12/05/2015 8:12:38 PM PST by PGR88
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To: BwanaNdege

“Marines are trained to obey civilian authority.”

The top brass should resign - and then speak out.


50 posted on 12/05/2015 8:12:47 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: QT3.14

Pathetic.

Sorry, but this is just a really really really pathetic social experimentation with what ought to be a well honed machine of destruction.

Militaries are for protection of the weak and innocent, not a place for pretending that everyone can do everything.

This ain’t Cosmopolitan magazine. I feel sorry for the generals who are obliged to obey the civilian leadership...but some of them ought to stand down and go to the nation with the truth.

God bless our troops.


51 posted on 12/05/2015 8:14:57 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: napscoordinator

Too bad I didn’t get a chance to visit you when you were at Annapolis.

Only an hour away. Maybe some other time.


52 posted on 12/05/2015 8:15:22 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: morphing libertarian

I got to meet james Conway want. now there was a Marine Corps Commandant! not one of these bootlickers like they have these days. sorry I mean shiny dress shoe lickers....


53 posted on 12/05/2015 8:15:50 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Ignore, that person is bitter.


54 posted on 12/05/2015 8:20:36 PM PST by Rik0Shay
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To: QT3.14

Traitor. Sad to see no General Officers willing to risk a career. Especially when their acts will condemn Marines and make the corps a laughingstock.


55 posted on 12/05/2015 8:24:30 PM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: dp0622

Glad I am Old Corps, don’t think I would even recognize the New Corps.
When you find a BAM that can drag my wounded ass through the barbwire, mud, blood, bullets, shrapnel, and other bullshit of the battlefield to a Corpsman, you let me know.
I haven’t met one yet.
How will the ladies deal with a Belleau Wood, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Khe Sahn, Hue.
Really don’t think they are up to it, no matter what the QUEER IN CHIEF says.


56 posted on 12/05/2015 8:28:09 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Rik0Shay
"Ignore, that person is bitter."

Thanks for the advice.

Sometimes I stray from my better Angels.

57 posted on 12/05/2015 8:28:50 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: Rik0Shay; SnuffaBolshevik
Ignore, that person is bitter.

...and a childish ass. Opns Normal for him.

58 posted on 12/05/2015 8:32:01 PM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: QT3.14

This is a HUGE mistake.

When I was stationed in Germany, my unit had females in it (I was in a brigade HQ at the time) and upon receiving the warning order that we were being deployed to Bosnia under Operation Joint Endeavor aka IFOR (Implementation FORce), a majority of the females in the unit scrambled around to render themselves “non-deployable” by getting knocked up.

It killed morale, and pissed a lot of us off because it meant having to shoulder more weight to achieve the mission.


59 posted on 12/05/2015 8:35:09 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Obamacare...... Because grandma is shovel ready.)
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To: Bryanw92

I dunno about your statement.

There are some who were born that way... Lewis Burwell “Chesty” Puller is one who comes to mind.


60 posted on 12/05/2015 8:51:12 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Obamacare...... Because grandma is shovel ready.)
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