Chief Tango and Bobo send us links to the story that the 30th woman to attempt the Marine Infantry Officer Course dropped this week after she didn’t complete two hikes – one was nine miles. She has recycled to the Marines Awaiting Training (MAT) Platoon and she gets to start again in July along with the males who were dropped and chose to try again. The unnamed Woman Marine made it 11 days into the training out of 84 days – further than any of her predecessors.<\/p>\n
Secretary Ray Mabus has said that he won’t lower the standards, well, unless he lowers the standards of the military training for anyone. From the Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n \u201cI will never lower standards,” Mabus said during an April 12 town hall at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. \u201cLet me repeat that: Standards will not be lowered for any group! Standards may be changed as circumstances in the world change, but they’ll be changed for everybody.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, basically, the standards will change eventually. I wonder how they can justify all of this mental masturbation seein’s how half of the Marine Corps’ aircraft can’t get off the ground<\/a>. <\/p>\n Mabus still hasn’t told us how this will help the USMC kill our enemies better.<\/p>\n