{"id":38500,"date":"2013-11-19T07:33:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38500"},"modified":"2013-11-19T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T12:33:05","slug":"four-female-marines-to-graduate-from-infantry-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38500","title":{"rendered":"Four female Marines to graduate from infantry training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps\/report-for-1st-time-female-marines-to-graduate-from-enlisted-infantry-training-1.253646\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that four female Marines are set to graduate this week from the service&#8217;s infantry school for enlisted Marines. The course began with 15 females and were whittled down to four after their 20-kilometer road march. Seven began the march and three didn&#8217;t finish. 26 men out of the 246 didn&#8217;t finish either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Throughout the infantry training, the women were held to the same standards as men, including performing full pull-ups instead of a flexed-arm hang during the physical fitness test, the Marine Corps Times said.<\/p>\n<p>The four women are assigned to Delta Company, Infantry Training Battalion, a part of the Marine Corps School of Infantry-East.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, I don&#8217;t think anyone on this blog ever said that there were no women who could meet the male standard, our concern was that the number of graduates wouldn&#8217;t be significant enough to please the military&#8217;s political masters who would eventually push military leadership, such as it is, to adjust the the standard lower in order to accommodate the social scientists. Now that it&#8217;s been proven that there are indeed women who can meet or exceed the male standard, they should leave well-enough alone since the Pentagon is so set to integrate the sexes in the infantry. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no evidence to support lowering the standard. Unless it&#8217;s for purely political reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that four female Marines are set to graduate this week from the &hellip; <a title=\"Four female Marines to graduate from infantry training\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38500\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four female Marines to graduate from infantry training<\/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":[184,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38500","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=38500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}