According to The Hill, the Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, disputes the findings of the Marine Corps’ 9-month study involving mixed-gender units. He thinks that the study is biased for political reasons;
“They started out with a fairly largely component of the men thinking this is not a good idea, and women will not be able to do this,” he said in an interview with NPR.
“When you start out with that mindset, you’re almost presupposing the outcome,” he said.
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Mabus said some of the report’s conclusions were based on generalizations and not the women’s performance.
“Part of the study said women tend not to be able to carry as heavy a load for as long, but there were women who went through the study who could,” he said.
“And part of the study said we’re afraid because women get injured more frequently that over time, women will break down more, that you’ll begin to lose your combat effectiveness over time.
“That was not shown in the study, that was an extrapolation based on injury rates,” he said.
I guess that he gets his talking points from Ellen Haring. The fact remains that the women volunteered for the study which means that they wanted it to succeed. Some of the women had initial training, some of them had no training, you know just like some of the guys that I’d get in my unit. They all volunteered, they all wanted to succeed, like the ladies.
Basically, Mabus is vocalizing that which we’ve always known about this administration’s civilian leadership of the military – they don’t trust the services to give them good advice. Mabus, himself, presupposed the outcome of this study and he’s resistant to information to the contrary and he’s willing to throw his flag officers under the bus because they tell him that his preconceived notions are wrong.
Mabus and Haring and the rest of the social engineers don’t care that their plans will kill male and female Marines – they just care that they’ve given up those Marines for sacrifice on the alter of their religion.
