{"id":32405,"date":"2012-10-15T14:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32405"},"modified":"2012-10-15T14:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:26:15","slug":"second-female-fails-to-finish-marine-ioc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32405","title":{"rendered":"Second female fails to finish Marine IOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2012\/10\/marine-corps-womem-infantry-officers-course-101512\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a>, the second of the two females who began the first-ever attempt by women to complete the Marine&#8217;s Infantry Officer Course has dropped out for unspecific medical reasons of the 13-week course at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va. The first woman to drop fell out on a day last month that also claimed 30 males, according to the Times. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Quantico, those overseeing the IOC experiment have said that it will involve up to 100 female officers and take at least a year to complete. The Marine official, speaking on condition of anonymity, reaffirmed the Corps\u2019 intent to recruit female volunteers for subsequent iterations of the course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was just the first shot,\u201d the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, this is not my victory lap or my &#8220;I told you so&#8221;. It just happened. I hope that whatever has afflicted the young lieutenant is simple and she gets over it quickly. And I hope this doesn&#8217;t give the Marine Corps any ideas about changing the standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Marine Corps Times, the second of the two females who began the first-ever &hellip; <a title=\"Second female fails to finish Marine IOC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32405\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second female fails to finish Marine IOC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}