{"id":32243,"date":"2012-10-04T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32243"},"modified":"2012-10-04T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:02:29","slug":"women-in-usmc-infantry-officer-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32243","title":{"rendered":"Women in USMC Infantry Officer Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefry12 sends us a link to the Marine Corps Times<\/a> which recounts the first few days of two women who are taking the Marine Corps’ infantry officer course as an experiment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe women are expected to do everything that the men do,\u201d says Marine Col. Todd Desgrosseilliers, who commands the organization responsible for basic Marine officer and infantry training. \u201cWe haven\u2019t changed anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women have been steadily moving into many ranks previously barred to them, living at forward bases, flying combat aircraft and serving on submarine crews. Women remained barred from the infantry and other combat-arms specialties, but for the first time are being allowed to enter the Marines infantry officer training.<\/p>\n

Allowing the women to volunteer for the course is part of an \u201cexperiment\u201d to determine how they perform in the rigorous regimen of physical and psychological stress that Marine infantry officer candidates are put through.<\/p>\n

The Marine Corps\u2019 Infantry Officer Course is a course in which about 25 percent of men don\u2019t make the cut or voluntarily drop out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, if they can keep that promise that the course won’t change, I can go along with it, but I know that the screeching harpies at DoD will not be able to tolerate the failure rates which will be inevitably high.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, when all is said and done, what they should be focusing on is combat effectiveness,\u201d said Rep. Duncan Hunter, R.-Calif., a member of the Armed Services Committee. \u201cDoes it make us better at literally killing the enemy? That\u2019s what their job is going to be.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Infantrymen engage in close-in fighting, sometimes \u201cwith knives, rocks and shovels,\u201d [David Barno, a retired three-star Army general] says. \u201cI don\u2019t rule that out, but I think we should take a hard look at that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously, Hunter and Barno are steeped in their chauvinistic bullshit, because what’s really important, according to the playing-field-levelers all that’s important is that women and the men around them have a greater opportunity to give their lives for their country while pursuing their gender-neutral career goals.<\/p>\n

Marine Capt. Brian Perkins kept a close watch over a group of exhausted Marine lieutenants struggling through a series of pull-ups.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s just another student to me,\u201d Perkins said, referring to one of the women as she sweated through exercises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As long as it stays that way, I have no problem with it. But it won’t stay that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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