{"id":40340,"date":"2014-03-14T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T16:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40340"},"modified":"2014-03-14T12:08:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T16:08:30","slug":"usmc-to-train-a-coed-mini-meu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40340","title":{"rendered":"USMC to train a coed mini-MEU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to study the effects of the intermingling of males and females in a combat unit, the Marine Corps is planning to create an experimental expeditionary unit that is about 25% female, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-corps-to-create-experimental-task-force-with-25-percent-women-1.272610\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The task force will be made up of about 460 Marines, and about one quarter will be women, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine spokeswoman. The task force will look like a small battalion landing team with attachments such as artillery, tanks and amphibious assault vehicles \u2014 similar to the ground combat portion of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, but about half the size.<\/p>\n<p>The Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based unit will replicate the predeployment training cycle that other ground combat units go through, and will help the Marine Corps evaluate whether women are capable of doing the jobs and physically demanding tasks inherent in the training, Krebs said.<\/p>\n<p>The unit will be made up of volunteers&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that, since they have to follow the ridiculous guidance of their political masters, this is probably the smartest way to do it. I just find it odd that this experiment is taking place while there&#8217;s still a war going on and those 300+ male trigger pullers are engaged in an experiment when they&#8217;re needed to fight the Taliban a half a world away. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not the Marine Corps&#8217; fault, it the fault of those social engineers in the Pentagon who are trying to ram this down the throats of the services while they still have the unfocused vision from the White House and while there are no grownups to stop them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to study the effects of the intermingling of males and females in a &hellip; <a title=\"USMC to train a coed mini-MEU\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40340\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USMC to train a coed mini-MEU<\/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-40340","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\/40340","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=40340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}