"Lance Corporal? Your wife would like a word with you."
Posted on 01/27/2017 4:59:46 PM PST by Snickering Hound
Female infantry Marines will be sleeping in makeshift shelters next to their male counterparts when out in the field and no special accommodation will be offered to them, a Marine Corps official said Thursday.
Marines in the field stay in everything from a large, single room shelter filled with dozens of cots to sleeping under tarps or nothing at all, said Maj. Charles Anklam III, executive officer for 1st Battalion, 8th Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina - the first gender-integrated Marine infantry battalion.
Female Marines have private rooms and bathrooms in their living quarters, and female bathrooms have been added to buildings where Marines work. But female Marines will be expected to share any living spaces with male squad members in the field to keep unit cohesion and replicate battlefield conditions, he said.
"We're not changing our tactical posture or changing how we operate to accommodate the inclusion of female Marines," Anklam said.
The battalion accepted its first three females in early January, marking the first time the Marine Corps has put three enlisted women in a ground combat unit once open only to men. They will serve as a rifleman, machine gunner and mortar Marine.
Anklam said female Marines deployed to conflict zones have shared tents with their male counterparts at times. But this marks the first time female Marines will be doing so during their regular training with their combat unit.
Opponents of the Obama administration's policy change voiced concern about the two genders sharing tents.
"You're going to have sex, you're going to have love, you're going to have relationships, and it's going to overly complicate the command structure," Marine veteran, Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, told the Marine Corps Times.
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"Lance Corporal? Your wife would like a word with you."
Get the women OUT OF COMBAT!~!. This is madness. Let’s get going on this MAD DOG!!
More f*cking and more babies.
What the hell is the Marine Corps thinking?
Put men and women together - and um - nature takes its course.
Remind me how we won World War Two?
Cue 70s adult porn music.
It’s not the Marines. It’s the Obama admin. Hope this changes with Mattis.
I can’t wait for military porn movies.
They really think they can eliminate human nature?
Effin’ idiots.
Kirsten Gillibrand doesn’t care!!
I bet she never carries the M240 or mortar
Sorry. There are other things women can do in the service. That goes for women like Bradley Manning too.
Not hand to hand on the battle field
The military being used as a social engineering experiment. What is this experiment about? Is it to obscure the difference between the male and female sex? Is this a part of Marxist egalitarianism.
Just another illustration how stupid this idea is.
Secretary of Defense “Mad Dog” Mattis, here is your target -
Maj. Charles Anklam III - commence firing, either figuratively or literally.
The Staff Sergeant
might have a Major Headache
and need Corporal Punishment
from General Nuisance
There will be plenty of "servicing" in the field.
But honey! It was cold out there in the tent and we had to Keep warm Somehow!?
This should work out well. /s
I really can’t
Imagine changing tampons in a foxhole.
LOL!
Duncan Hunter is right.
I’ve never been in the military, but I once was a young woman...
Has anyone ever had a worse idea?
Geezum crow.
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