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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAt the Marine Corps’ Infantry Officers Course in the recent past, failing the grueling Combat Endurance Test would disqualify an officer from completing the course. That has changed, according to the Marine Corps Times<\/a>. Now, the Combat Endurance Test is just part of the overall grade of a student. Incidentally, with the participation of women in the course, the CET has eliminated all but one female candidate.<\/p>\n The Marine Corps says that the change isn’t lowering the standards, just changing the standard.<\/p>\n \u201cThe average attrition rate for the CET between 2012 and 2017 was less than three percent,\u201d Training Command said. \u201cThe majority of the attrition in Infantry Officer Course is associated with a student\u2019s overall performance on tactical movements and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n The largest spike in attrition from the test occurred in 2015 ? with roughly 6 percent, or 22 Marines washing out of the infantry course for failure to pass the Combat Endurance Test. In 2017, less than 1 percent ? roughly four Marines ? failed the test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m assuming that a large number of those Marines who failed the CET were men, so there was nothing related to the gender of the candidates which caused them to fail. One woman was successful, so it wasn’t impossible for women to complete the CET. <\/p>\n In the end, the only result of this decision is that the Marine Infantry Officer Corps will include that 1% of Marines who should not be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"