{"id":81183,"date":"2018-08-16T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81183"},"modified":"2018-08-15T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:47:31","slug":"infantry-officer-moves-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81183","title":{"rendered":"Infantry Officer Moves Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first woman to graduate from the\u00a0Marine Corps’ notoriously grueling Infantry Officer Course is now leading a platoon of male grunts in Australia.<\/p>\n

First Lt. Marina Hierl is the only female Marine to lead an infantry platoon in her service’s history. About a year after she reported to Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, the novelty of it all has worn off a bit — and she’s even left some male grunts rethinking their opinions about women in the infantry. –\u00a0 Military.com article. https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2018\/08\/13\/marine-grunts-1st-ever-female-infantry-leader-shes-one-us.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The officer discussed in the Military.com and NYT articles, 1LT Marina Hierl, seems to be a modest sort, uninterested\u00a0in promoting herself, or talking up some agenda other than the agenda of the US Marine Corps. Unlike some other military women we\u2019ve seen before, she\u2019s doing what Marines are supposed to do: putting the Corps\u2019 needs first.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/09\/us\/politics\/marines-women-combat-platoon.html<\/a><\/p>\n

LT Hierl made the boys in the platoon keep up with her, which is interesting. They must be – well, wienies? Does the Corps have wienies?<\/p>\n

Both articles do indicate that there was a certain amount\u00a0of sexist crap in the beginning, but that it apparently\u00a0shut off when the guys ran out of breath trying to keep up with the Lieutenant.<\/p>\n

If she and the other two women (senior enlisteds) in that battalion are living up to regular standards, then there should be no argumentation or discussion about lowering standards to accommodate women. \u00a0Or perhaps Women Marines are just better at it than Army females… or something? More dedicated to doing the job?<\/p>\n

These women are 3 out of a group of 37 who entered the Infantry course. The other 34 did not complete it. I did not dig into that part or whether or not any of them had recycled.\u00a0The fact that these three have made it through and are moving ahead should annoy any military women who think they should get special dispensations of some kind because they are women. \u00a0Sorry, N-O, no. You either make it or you don’t.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah: if you don’t want to read it because it’s a ‘guy’ thing, let me know. I am willing to listen to the bitter sobbing and sniffling for at least 38 seconds.<\/p>\n

After that, I will send GySgt Millard Rzezckowski to your house to tell you to stop. He’s bigger than Apone and has a voice like a rumble of summer thunder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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