{"id":62031,"date":"2015-09-26T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62031"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:06:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T15:06:47","slug":"maybus-doubles-down-on-the-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62031","title":{"rendered":"Mabus doubles down on The Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to a Washington Post<\/a> opinion piece written by Ray Mabus, the Navy Secretary, who attempts to explain why he threw under the bus the Marines who took part in the experiment to integrate Women Marines into combat arms jobs.<\/p>\n

During the study, however, the Marine Corps did not rely on the data for, or evaluate the performance of, individual female Marines; instead, it used only averages. Averages have no relevance to the abilities and performance of individual Marines.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The use of averages to disqualify every woman from ground combat positions in the Marine Corps \u2014 even one who meets the standards \u2014 does not meet the clear goals set by Panetta and Dempsey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, Panetta and Dempsey aren’t in charge anymore, don’t use them as a scapegoat for your own political decisions, Ray. What the Marines said was that the performance of women during the experiment doesn’t justify the expense of training women to do a job that they can’t do – sure there are women who can do the job, but considering the rate at which others fail and sustain injuries, why is Mabus, in these days of budget belt-tightening, so willing to throw away training dollars on a program that only has a political upside, one that doesn’t improve the force and it’s primary mission?<\/p>\n

As the nature of warfare becomes more dynamic and unpredictable, we need to be the strongest force possible, and diversity is one of our greatest strengths. When we talk about diversity, we mean the full spectrum of demographics, but even more important, we mean diversity of thinking. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Diversity is political-speak for shoving a square peg into a round hole.<\/p>\n

The few, the proud, the Marines have never been about being average; this issue is about setting high standards to keep Marines exceptional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, Mabus thinks that by lowering combat standards, it’s actually raising the standards. Orwellian is the only adjective I can think of while reading this entire piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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