{"id":29577,"date":"2012-04-19T08:10:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T12:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29577"},"modified":"2012-04-19T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T12:10:28","slug":"marines-to-train-females-in-infantry-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29577","title":{"rendered":"Marines to train females in infantry school"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> is reporting that the Marine Corps has made decision to train female officers at their Infantry Officers Course in Quantico, VA;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in the process right now of soliciting volunteers,\u201d [Gen. Joseph Dunford, the Corps\u2019 assistant commandant] said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a monumental \u2014 if controversial \u2014 move for the Marine Corps, which until now barred female Marines from the program and required instead that they attend other courses aimed at preparing them for assignments in support roles such as logistics, personnel administration and aircraft maintenance, among others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All will be volunteers \u2014 and it remains to be seen how many will answer the call, he said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not immediately clear either what the next steps will be for those women who successfully complete the Corps\u2019 infantry training programs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, they haven’t put any thought into it, if they’re admitting the extent of their plans to make some infantry officers out of some women. I only hope that they understand that combat for infantrymen have just one standard and I’m pretty certain that our enemies don’t have a specific standard for engaging women in combat that is different from their standard for engaging men or bullets that adjust for gender.<\/p>\n

As I’ve said before, I’m all for allowing women in combat, if those women meet the exact same current standard for men. But, I’m not very hopeful that a totally political decision will have a successful outcome.<\/p>\n

The Marine Corps defines gender-neutral physical standards as being identical for men and women, rather than weighted \u2014 or \u201cgender-normed\u201d \u2014 like those applied in the service\u2019s annual Physical Fitness Test. During the PFT, women can earn a minimum or maximum score with fewer repetitions and a slower run times than their male counterparts.<\/p>\n

This suggests that women wanting to serve in ground combat units will be given the shot to do so only if they can keep pace with their male counterparts. Standards would likely evaluate Marines not as women and men, but simply as infantrymen, tank crewmen or artillerymen, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, we’ll see how well that survives when the feminists decide they don’t like the failure rates among female candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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