{"id":61882,"date":"2015-09-18T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61882"},"modified":"2015-09-18T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T13:24:05","slug":"congress-to-look-at-marine-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61882","title":{"rendered":"Congress to look at Marine experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, we talked about the leaked results of a report in regards to the nine-month experiment conducted by the Marine Corps which put male and female Marines in combat arms roles together. The supposed conclusion was that women didn’t quite live up to the standard through no fault of their own, but rather they were limited by nature. The Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus dismissed the report out-of-hand, he hasn’t read it nor has he been briefed on it. The Hill <\/a>reports that some members of Congress want to get their fingerprints on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be gathering folks together who have been part of that study and having a briefing on it soon,\u201d Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee, said Thursday. <\/p>\n

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[Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), a retired Air Force colonel and first female to fly in combat] said lawmakers have not seen the study, which has not been released yet, but that she has similar concerns to Mabus. <\/p>\n

“I echo some concerns by the secretary of the Navy related to, ‘Do we take a bunch of combat trained men and a bunch of non-combat trained support women and put them together, and just wonder how they’re going to do?\u2019 \u201d said McSally. <\/p>\n

“You can study anything and get the results you might be looking for, or have some flawed assumptions in how you’re setting it up. And so we want to make sure we understand where the study was and what the results are from it, and then what to conclude from it,” she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we’re supposed to prejudge the results of this experiment without actually seeing those results? Isn’t what the Navy Secretary and the Congresswoman are doing is exactly what they’re accusing the Marine Corps of doing during this Grand Experiment?<\/p>\n

These people have no skin in the game, their lives don’t depend on the results of this experiment, it only matters to them for political reasons and social justice reasons. The Marines who took part in the experiment do have their skin in the game. Skin and blood. They have no other reason to play the game other than getting home safely after the next war.<\/p>\n

But, yeah, the social justice warriors in the Pentagon and in Congress were heartened by the Ranger School thing, you know the women who were recycled through the course until they got it right. This isn’t me being against women in the military, this is me worried about them coming in the same number of pieces as when they left.<\/p>\n

Stars & Stripes <\/a> reports this morning that the Corps may exclude some jobs from women in infantry and reconnaissance, but that move is subject to veto by Mabus, you know, the guy that has more experience in combat than everyone else combined from his two years as a surface warfareofficer in 1970-1972 aboard the USS Little Rock. According to Wiki<\/a>, 1970-1971, the USS Little Rock spent the time in a Boston dry dock undergoing repairs resulting from a collision with a Greek destroyer. So, he has lots of experience watching someone fix his boat – which is just as physical as being in the infantry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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