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Voice of America Exclusive: First Female Marine Joining Infantry Through Process Previously Closed
VOA.com ^ | Carla Babb

Posted on 03/17/2017 11:00:28 AM PDT by drewh

PENTAGON — One woman will make history next week as the first female Marine to join the infantry through the traditional entry-level training process that was previously unavailable to women, officials tell VOA.

The Marine is finishing up her training as a mortarman and will graduate next week from the U.S. Marine Corps School of Infantry at Camp Geiger in eastern North Carolina, said Marine Capt. Joshua Pena, a spokesman for the Marine Corps Training and Education Command.

Officials say the newest woman in the infantry will go to 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment in Camp Pendleton, near San Diego, California.

The Marines now have a total of four women in the infantry. Three female Marines joined 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in January after making a lateral move request to join the infantry.

Those three were among 144 female Marines who graduated from the Marine Corps' School of Infantry in 2013-2015, when it was temporarily opened up to women in order to study how gender integration would affect combat readiness. Each of the three women has entered the infantry under the specialty she successfully trained for while attending the school.

The results of the Marine Corps' gender integration study showed that male-only Marine units were faster and more lethal. When it came to critical thinking, however, the joint male-female units outperformed the male-only groups.

Female Marines were given the opportunity to join an infantry unit after former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter ordered that all military positions, including all combat positions, be opened to women beginning in 2016.

The Marine Corps had requested an exemption for infantry and armor positions, but Carter overruled the request, saying the military should operate under a common set of standards.

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


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To: drewh
....How about carrying another Marine to safety?

Rule of thumb, If the belt buckle is bigger than her bicep or neck, chances are slim, none, and finding an all you can eat buffet in North Korea.)


21 posted on 03/17/2017 11:24:19 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: drewh

Having women in the infantry is like eating your seed corn.

A bad idea.

I know they have pushing this envelope for a long time and that women have been at the front in support position and have been wounded and killed, it is still a bad idea to put them in infantry units.

Unintended consequences for women is when the next time we need a draft to fight a major war, women will be drafted.


22 posted on 03/17/2017 11:25:16 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: drewh

Present but hidden is the Chastity Belt Type C14


23 posted on 03/17/2017 11:29:15 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Covenantor
well said. Obozo was trying to destroy us from within...the Alinsky method


24 posted on 03/17/2017 11:30:51 AM PDT by drewh (>)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
"...Unintended consequences for women is when the next time we need a draft to fight a major war, women will be drafted..."

I can tell you that is not unintended at all.

This makes me madder than hell.

25 posted on 03/17/2017 11:31:31 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Get rid of female cops as well.


26 posted on 03/17/2017 11:31:45 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: max americana
do something Mad Dog!


27 posted on 03/17/2017 11:32:47 AM PDT by drewh (>)
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To: bert
this is our future...


28 posted on 03/17/2017 11:35:36 AM PDT by drewh (>)
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To: Volunteer
exactly. can she barely even carry the mortar equipment?


29 posted on 03/17/2017 11:38:36 AM PDT by drewh (>)
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To: Volunteer

Obama and Ash Carter opted to do this despite lots of real-world statistical date showing it doesn’t work.

Both the Israelis and the USSR tried women in combat units.
Both quickly realized that doesn’t work and retreated. I am sure information as to why could be located.


30 posted on 03/17/2017 12:01:12 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: drewh

Who carries the mortar shells?


31 posted on 03/17/2017 12:01:47 PM PDT by ex-snook (The one true God sent Jesus here to show us the way.)
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To: ex-snook

which one takes first watch at night?


32 posted on 03/17/2017 12:03:34 PM PDT by drewh (>)
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To: drewh

Just how many people will die because of this PC lunacy by the co=lunatics no9bama and sec-def carter? What a crock!


33 posted on 03/17/2017 12:03:50 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: drewh

Just how many people will die because of this PC lunacy by the co-lunatics nobama and sec-def carter? What a crock!


34 posted on 03/17/2017 12:05:16 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: drewh

Entry level sergeants? sure.


35 posted on 03/17/2017 12:05:59 PM PDT by ex-snook (The one true God sent Jesus here to show us the way.)
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To: hal ogen

Well, it is essential since they are trying to emasculate little boys and kill the nurturing instinct in women and the protective instinct in males, for the NWO of total orgies with everyone, even little children. Individualism and sexual identity has to be made meaningless and age distinctions is next. To flip 2000 years of Ethics back to the psychopathic sodomites ethics of Ba’al Rites—that of slaves, misogyny, and pederasty, they have to destroy Logic and Reason in children.

Concept of mother and father has to be DESTROYED and has to be erased in the minds of children (erasing all of Western Civ (Christianity) so they can literally make women into men and men into women and all distinction will be erased (for radical egalitarianism).

They have to destroy all Natural instincts to make us into their slaves. Vice and irrationality (which this promotes) has to be embedded in little children for Slavery is Freedom and Sodomy is a Virtue and Boys are Girls.

Sweden now has twice as many children now who identity as male when they are female and vice-versa. (PS. All behaviors are learned and habituated, exp. ones which defy Nature (God) and Truth.)

Age of Reason was ONLY possible with a Christian worldview and THAT is why that worldview is being destroyed. Have to have dumb, ignorant people who can’t even tell if they are male and female to destroy individualism, free will, Natural Law, and collapse society. Vice creates slaves only.


36 posted on 03/17/2017 12:16:32 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: drewh

I’d hit that! /s...That’s the problem (bedsides the obvious gross difficulties and differences in the field and combat between men and women) because men and women just do “it”. I was infantry and we never hesitated to check out the decent lookers in the support battalions (some were gorgeous)That being said, it is a distraction. I will say women at times can be bigger “horn-dogs” as men. I know very well. A very big problem I was aware of in Iraq and Somalia were the rate of pregnancies (in and out of theater) and sexual assaults (includes homosexuals). These will always be covered up. There is no need for females to be in infantry when there is a never ending population of men who fill this role. Yes, we all pick the rifle up to fight if need be but the infantry should never be a social experiment or equality lab.


37 posted on 03/17/2017 12:19:15 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: drewh

If and when a Draft is implemented, will it include all types of Human Genders(?)?


38 posted on 03/17/2017 12:21:57 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (" The Russians made me vote, for Donald J. Trump"! NOT!)
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To: drewh

Flame suit on ready, but have you checked out the females in the Israeli Defense Forces?


39 posted on 03/17/2017 12:24:07 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Libs put feelings first and thought second.)
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To: Covenantor

How long does it take a man to make SGT?


40 posted on 03/17/2017 12:43:33 PM PDT by itsahoot ( The return of the Super Secret, Super Genius Plan of GW fame #136)
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