{"id":36520,"date":"2013-07-05T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36520"},"modified":"2013-07-05T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T16:04:42","slug":"females-fail-marine-infantry-officers-course-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36520","title":{"rendered":"Females fail Marine Infantry Officers&#8217; Course again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jul\/3\/two-more-female-officers-fail-marines-infantry-cou\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that two more female Marines tried and didn&#8217;t quite make the standards at the Infantry Officers&#8217; Course, although they&#8217;re getting closer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It reported Wednesday that one of the women was pulled for falling behind schedule. The other made it to the course\u2019s end but did not meet its standards, as did six men, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe women seemingly failed primarily due to struggles with upper-body strength,\u201d embedded reporter Dan Lamothe wrote. \u201cIn one example, they both struggled to climb a 20-foot rope required twice. One Marine made it all the way up it once, but could not do it again. The other woman \u2014 and a couple [of] men \u2014 were unable to make it up the rope one time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article makes it clear that there were men who failed for similar reasons in the class, so there is nothing surprising about the results to those of us who have been saying the same things all along since Leon Panetta made the political decision based solely on how he felt about the issue. The people who will be surprised are the social scientists who will think that something is inherently unfair about a system that doesn&#8217;t graduate females based on their sex.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to UpNorth for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that two more female Marines tried and didn&#8217;t quite make the standards &hellip; <a title=\"Females fail Marine Infantry Officers&#8217; Course again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36520\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Females fail Marine Infantry Officers&#8217; Course again<\/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-36520","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\/36520","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=36520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}