{"id":62466,"date":"2015-10-26T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62466"},"modified":"2015-10-26T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:19:54","slug":"sjw-marines-test-unit-was-flawed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62466","title":{"rendered":"SJW: Marines’ test unit was flawed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that the social justice warriors are still taking potshots at the Marines’ test unit which actually provided research on the feasibility of mixing males and females into combat arms units. Of course, they say that the Marines weren’t selective enough when they chose the participants in the test;<\/p>\n

Two researchers \u2014 Ellen Haring, a retired Army colonel and senior fellow at Women in International Security in Washington, and Megan MacKenzie, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia \u2014 are vocal advocates for the full integration of women into combat roles. They say the executive summary failed to convey shortcomings and caveats in the full study they obtained.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a research perspective, there\u2019s almost nothing you could reliably draw from this research,\u201d said MacKenzie, who has published two books about women in combat, most recently \u201cBeyond the Band of Brothers: The U.S. Military and the Myth that Women Can\u2019t Fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe volunteer selection was poor. The physical screening was poor. The consistency and number of people they put in each of the groups was very varied,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Selection and screening are at fault. If I remember correctly, they took volunteers, you know much like recruiters do when they slot people at the time of their enlistment. The people who volunteered certainly thought that they could do the job, you know, like recruits. Maybe if Haring and Mackenzie could just force more women to volunteer, that would be make a better study. You know, volun-told to do it.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s central flaw, MacKenzie and Haring say, is that it failed to establish occupation-relevant standards for Marine combat positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that the Marines chose to do a $36 million study that didn\u2019t establish any standards is, I think, interesting in itself,\u201d MacKenzie said. \u201cWe still don\u2019t have combat-specific standards in the Marines. Once you\u2019re in the Marines, the only qualification you need to be in an infantry [military occupational specialty] is to be a man.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, being a man doesn’t automatically make you a combat arms soldier. We read about men failing the courses all of the time. So, you know, there are standards, standards that some men can’t meet.<\/p>\n

The study also ignored the accomplishments of certain women \u201cwho were just amazing physically,\u201d MacKenzie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, there was one woman who outperformed men consistently, just an outlier throughout the whole study,\u201d she said. \u201cThere were quite a few women above the 50th percentile. There were all these indicators that there were physically superior women who performed well; it\u2019s just that the Marines focused on how the women performed as a group.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have never denied, nor has anyone I’ve read on the subject denied, that there are some women who can meet the standards – check out the three women who graduated Ranger School this past summer. 3 of them out of twenty – all volunteers, all prepared for the course. That’s fifteen percent of the women who volunteered were successful. Does that really justify the expense and the scarce training funds just to have the appearance of females in massive media campaigns? Just so the Social Justice Warriors can have a job? <\/p>\n

I don’t see Mackenzie or Haring showing the girls how it’s done. All I see them doing is heckling from the sidelines doing their best to see more body bags in the next war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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