{"id":77939,"date":"2018-02-25T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77939"},"modified":"2018-02-25T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:09:48","slug":"marine-infantry-officer-course-standards-change-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77939","title":{"rendered":"Marine Infantry Officer Course standards change again"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Marine Corps Times<\/a>, the standards for folks in the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course have been lowered once again;<\/p>\n

Recent changes include the number of evaluated hikes required to pass the course, and the removal of the physically demanding Combat Endurance Test as a strict requirement to graduate.<\/p>\n

Under the new requirements, only three of those nine hikes will be evaluated, and Marines will have to pass all three evaluated hikes in order to graduate.<\/p>\n

The condition that Marines at IOC participate in nine hikes remains unchanged.<\/p>\n

Under the previous rules six of those hikes were evaluated, and Marines had to pass five of those six evaluated hikes.<\/p>\n

The Corps in recent years has struggled to meet its goals in graduating an adequate number of new infantry officers. Attrition rates reached as high as 25 percent in 2014. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, there are plenty of military training courses which lose graduates due to physical standards at rates higher than 25%. The Corps denies that the reduction in standards has anything to do with accepting females in their ranks;<\/p>\n

The recent changes, the Corps argues, have nothing to do with gender integration in the combat arms job fields or a watering down of any standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnically what we have done is we have modified graduation requirements, but we actually tie our requirements now more to the T&R [Marine infantry training and readiness manual] standards.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, technically, what you’ve done is what I predicted you would do years ago – the social justice warriors demanded that you lower standards so women can compete for slots they are not qualified to occupy. I hope the enemies on our future battlefields take these lower standards into consideration, you know, just to be fair.<\/p>\n

Thanks to MustangCryppie for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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