{"id":37229,"date":"2013-08-25T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T13:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37229"},"modified":"2013-08-25T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T13:12:06","slug":"marines-to-open-enlisted-infantry-training-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37229","title":{"rendered":"Marines to open enlisted infantry training to women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About twenty of you sent this link last night from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/article\/20130824\/CAREERS02\/308240009\/Marine-Corps-will-open-infantry-training-enlisted-women\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> which reports that the Corps is opening up infantry training for female Marines, despite the fact that the only female candidates for the Officer School have failed the course;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFemale Marines will have the opportunity to go through the same infantry training course as their male counterparts,\u201d the document states. However, as with the research involving female officers, \u201cfemale enlisted Marines who successfully complete infantry training as part of this research process will not be assigned infantry as a military occupational specialty and will not be assigned to infantry units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether any enlisted women have volunteered yet. Marine Corps officials were not immediately available to discuss the plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only four female Marines have volunteered to participate in the Officer Course and I would thing that not many will volunteer for the enlisted course, and I believe that the enlisted side will probably graduate more females than the officer&#8217;s course can.<\/p>\n<p>Women can get all &#8220;Hoorah&#8221; about it, but I wonder how much celebrating they&#8217;ll be doing when, eventually, the social scientists mandate their participation in the course and mandate their assignment to infantry units just to get the social point across.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About twenty of you sent this link last night from the Marine Corps Times which reports &hellip; <a title=\"Marines to open enlisted infantry training to women\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37229\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marines to open enlisted infantry training to women<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229","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=37229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}