{"id":60830,"date":"2015-07-13T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60830"},"modified":"2015-07-13T10:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:47:52","slug":"lieutenant-colonel-kate-germano-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60830","title":{"rendered":"Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano fired"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Old Trooper sends us a link to Fox News<\/a> about this Lieutenant Colonel Kate Germano who fired from her job at 4th Recruit Training Battalion on Parris Island, S.C. According to the article, she was fired for making female recruits better Marines;<\/p>\n

She got bounced June 30 after a command investigation accused her of \u201ctoxic leadership\u201d by berating and showing contempt for subordinates in public. The 300-page report found her to be \u201chostile, unprofessional and abusive \u201c and told recruits that sexual assault was preventable, and that those who drank put themselves in a position to be assaulted.<\/p>\n

She also told recruits male Marines would never take orders from them and would see them as inferior if they couldn’t meet men’s physical standards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In May, Germano filed a complaint against her supervisors claiming that they were undermining her efforts to push female Marines to be as well-trained as their male peers. So, in June she gets fired. I remember a letter that Sage Santangelo<\/a>, a Marine Corps lieutenant who failed the Marine Officers’ Infantry Course when she wrote a letter to the Commandant of the Marine Corps accusing the Corps of not training female Marines to be as good as their male counterparts. I guess that was not taken seriously by Marine leadership.<\/p>\n

From the New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

When Lt. Col. Kate Germano took command of the Marine Corps\u2019 all-women boot camp, the failure rate of female recruits at the rifle range was about three times higher than that of their male counterparts, and she said there was no plan to try to improve it. \u201cThe thinking was girls can\u2019t shoot, so why bother,\u201d she said in an interview.<\/p>\n

So she worked with trainers to give women better skills instruction, and soon passing rates soared, according to Marine Corps records. In June, 95 percent of women passed initial rifle qualification, equaling the rate for men. Colonel Germano made similar gains in strength tests and retention…The corps said that Colonel Germano\u2019s removal had nothing to do with gender, and that an investigation had found that she disobeyed her chain of command and berated and embarrassed subordinates when they did not meet her standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole thing started when her Marines \u2014 her female Marines \u2014 were telling us they were being mistreated,\u201d said Col. Jeffrey Fultz, the chief of staff for Parris Island. \u201cShe was telling them their male counterparts will never respect them if they don\u2019t get good physical scores. You just don\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the record, I’ve been telling my subordinates for decades that soldiers don’t follow leaders who can’t exceed their standards, in regards to their technical proficiency and physical fitness, male or female. So what’s new about telling females the truth?<\/p>\n

According to the Fox News and the New York Times articles, Germano’s Marines, as a whole, were performing better than most recruits, I guess that’s something we just can’t have. The United States Marine Corps wants to be more like the Army in regards to political correctness and sacrifice standards for feelings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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