{"id":63138,"date":"2015-12-07T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63138"},"modified":"2015-12-07T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:04:43","slug":"jenny-north-on-women-in-combat-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63138","title":{"rendered":"Jenny North on women in combat arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/victorygirlsblog.com\/37973-2\/\">Victory Girls Blog<\/a> published a commentary from Jenny North, a female Marine officer who has spent some time training male and female Marines. She writes about her experiences as company XO at Support Company (Medical Rehabilitation Platoon and Physical Conditioning Platoon);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Support Company was the place where recruits were sent if they were unfortunate enough to have an injury during training, or they needed to improve their physical conditioning in order to keep up with training. Males and females maintained separate platoons and each had their respective same sex drill instructors. At Support Company, males and females frequently trained together and of course all drill instructors, whether female or male had the power to correct, and instruct, any recruit of any sex.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Something that has always struck me as I remember my female recruits, and my female drill instructors, was how small in general they all were. I often wondered why did the Marines attract all these tiny little girls? It was a question I got a lot myself as I too was only 5\u20194\u201d, and I was quiet \u2013 not a stereotype you would peg to become a Marine. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>These females&#8230;took on manly challenges and found ways to be successful, even when they might not have the brute strength to muscle through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will agree with Ms. North. I trained women when I taught ROTC at the University of Vermont and as a TAC NCO at Advanced Camp, and although women were physically at a disadvantage when competing with men, they didn&#8217;t lack heart. Ms. North continues that women do seem to suffer from physical injuries more than men, mostly because of their &#8220;hearts&#8221; &#8211; they want to succeed with their male peers, but sometimes the simple mechanics of their bodies get in the way. Ms. North advocates fixing the promotion system more than integration of males with females in combat arms, which makes just too much sense. The Social Justice Warriors will never admit that women aren&#8217;t the equal of men through no fault of their own. Blame nature, but don&#8217;t needlessly put lives on the line.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at Victory Girls Blog published a commentary from Jenny North, a female Marine officer &hellip; <a title=\"Jenny North on women in combat arms\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63138\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jenny North on women in combat arms<\/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":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63138","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=63138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}