{"id":106485,"date":"2020-10-23T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106485"},"modified":"2020-10-22T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T01:53:47","slug":"univ-of-pittsburgh-studying-gender-integration-for-usmc-cost-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106485","title":{"rendered":"Univ of Pittsburgh studying gender integration for USMC. Cost? $2M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/USMC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-106486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/USMC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/USMC.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/USMC-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ninja sent in this article from Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The University of Pittsburgh is conducting a study to determine the best way for the Marine Corps to approach gender integration at its two boot camps, the service announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The study comes as the Marine Corps faces a looming deadline set in the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that mandates the service end gender-segregated training within five years at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., and integrate training within eight years at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps wants \u201can independent, scientifically credible study of the models of entry-level military training to identify potential alternatives to increase gender integration of entry-level training,\u201d Bradley Nindl, a co-principal investigator and senior adviser for the study, said in a statement issued Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The study is a $2 million contract between the Marine Corps and the university\u2019s Neuromuscular Research Laboratory and Warrior Human Performance Research Center, where Nindl is the director. He is also a professor and vice chairman for research in the school\u2019s Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences also will partner on the study with the University of South Carolina\u2019s Department of Exercise Science, Insight Policy Research, and representatives from the University of Maryland\u2019s Department of Sociology, according to the Marine Corps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel like this could be done cheaper, but what do I know?<\/p>\n<p>More at the source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/university-of-pittsburgh-to-study-gender-integration-at-marine-corps-boot-camps-1.649327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stars and Stripes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ninja sent in this article from Stars and Stripes. The University of Pittsburgh is conducting a &hellip; <a title=\"Univ of Pittsburgh studying gender integration for USMC. Cost? $2M\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106485\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Univ of Pittsburgh studying gender integration for USMC. Cost? $2M<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,406,331,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-guest-link","category-marines","category-ninja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106487,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106485\/revisions\/106487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}