Sick that a platoon of Riflemen have to answer to a woman. A dark day in Corps history.
This would have never happened if Mattis was still alive. I remember he always said a lot of tough sounding things.
I’m sure the higher ups made sure she was good enough.
“Still alive?” Mattis is currently SecDef.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mattis?wprov=sfti1
This is a notoriously tough course - for males. IF THE REPORT IS TRUE AND STANDARDS WERE MAINTAINED, congratulations are due her.
For her sake, I certainly hope standards were maintained. Because any hovering protectiveness from IOC, BCS or the cabal up I-95 at HQMC or the Pentagon is going to disappear once she hits the Fleet. And if she is assigned anything except a platoon in an infantry company, the jig is up (along with her reputation and career).
I hope she is as physically strong and mentally tough as she is going to need to be because the infantry is notoriously tough and unforgiving - it has to be - on junior leaders. Grunt field grade and company grade officers and SNCOs can be hard on male lieutenants...but they have a vested interest in helping the trainable ones to succeed. The incompetent and untrainable ones are usually found out eventually and relieved. Where is their interest in helping her succeed?
By the way, do you (or any Freepers) know if either of the two female Army officers that passed the Ranger course are actually commanding units in the 75th Infantry Regiment?
Can’t be sure it isn’t a man who says he is a woman. Could be why no name released.
As a former Marine 64 - 71, an invigorating SW Asia tour as a grunt, her assignment to run a Platoon of grunts......which was a political assignment, will not end well for the grunts.
She will have to prove she has a set of balls bigger than Andre the Giant while not stamping down the quirks of a Marine platoon.
Pity the fools.... the PC climate the military lives in today will only add more deaths to the Corps.
Just wondering how many Marines in her platoon/Company will immediately put in for a transfer? I know I would be in that long line.