re: Marine Corps Times - First female infantry Marines joining battalion on Thursday

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The military has been cucked by Barack Hussein.

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It was the idiot SecNav Mabus that kept pushing this bullshite.

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Nobody is ready for rifleman women marines to come home in a body bag..

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Makes it more emotional than it already would be.

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it's bad for public discourse and moral

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Freudian slip? It's very bad for morale.

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WM's do a great job

At what? ETA:

And don't do that thing where you post a bunch of pictures of chicks who got killed doing nothing more special than the thousands of other male Marines and soldiers have.

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If they do nothing more special than the male Marines, isn't that pretty worthy?



Everybody gets a ration of shite on Parris Island.



This is that Army gal that won a Silver Star.

HESTER, LEIGH ANN
Citation:
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Leigh Ann Hester, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for exceptionally valorous achievement during combat operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, on 20 March 2005, in Iraq. Sergeant Hester's heroic actions in Iraq contributed to the overwhelming success of the Multi-National Corps-Iraq mission. While serving as the Team Leader for RAVEN 42B in the 617th Military Police Company, 503d Military Police Battalion (Airborne), 18th Military Police Brigade, Sergeant Hester led her soldiers on a counterattack of anti-Iraqi Forces (AIF) who were ambushing a convoy with heavy AK-47 assault rifle fire, PRK machine gun fire, and rocket propelled grenades. Sergeant Hester maneuvered her team through the kill zone into a flanking position where she assaulted a trench line with grenades and M-203 rounds. She then cleared two trenches with her Squad Leader where she engaged and eliminated 3 AIF with her M-4 rifle. Her actions saved the lives of numerous convoy members. Sergeant Hester's bravery is in keeping with the finest traditions of military heroism and reflects distinct credit upon herself, the 503d Military Police Battalion (Airborne), the 18th Military Police Brigade, and the United States Army."

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That is a look that crosses gender no problemo. The butt plate on that rifle is filthy. Senior Drill Instructor Sergeant Cambridge is not happy.



Females do a great job. And also - we can't do the mission without WM's, so get used to it. There simply are not enough qualified males.

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I'm sickened by this. THE MARINES ARE NOT A PLACE FOR frickING SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS.

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Definitely.

Senators Criticize Ray Mabus for Neglecting Marine Study About Women in Combat

February 2, 2016 8:16 pm

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus on Monday for neglecting a study by the Marine Corps about the integration of women into all facets of the service, including boot camp.

The Marine Corps completed a multi-million dollar study in December that found that mixed-gender units performed poorly in ground combat tasks compared to all-male units. It has been the policy of the Marine Corps to keep ground combat all-male, and to separate men and women in enlisted basic training.

Secretary Mabus criticized the Marine Corps after it released the report, and after Secretary of Defense Ash Carter declined to exempt Marines from the requirement to open all positions to women, Mabus demanded that Marine Corps boot camp cease separating men and women for training.

At Tuesday’s hearing, Marine reserve officer Sen. Dan Sullivan (R., Alaska) questioned Mabus about his handling of the report and whether he came to a conclusion before the report was completed.

Mabus admitted he had not read the full study when he overrode the Marine Corps’ request for an exemption.

“You said ‘I do not see any reason for an exemption’ the day after the study was published. Based on what?” Sullivan asked.

“The conclusions,” Mabus said.

“Did you read the study?” Sen. Sullivan asked.

“I read the study,” Mabus said.

“Did you read the study before you stated that?” Sen. Sullivan asked.

“I had read the conclusions that the Marines drew from the study prior to that, and those conclusions which were based on averages and not on individual Marines,” Mabus said.

Sen. Sullivan then asked Mabus’s rush for gender-integration of the military contradicted a report on the effect of gender-integration in boot camps commissioned by the Department of Defense and completed in December 1997, known as the Kassebaum-Baker Report.

“I think that’s a completely irrelevant point, Senator,” Mabus said.

“You know, Secretary Mabus, this would have been a lot easier if you had not called in the press immediately and debunked what many of us view as a legitimate study without even reading it, and I don’t believe that you read a thousand page document in one day. I’m sorry, but I don’t believe it,” Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) said later in the hearing."

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Blam.

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The ineligible typically includes those who are obese, those who lack a high school diploma or a GED, convicted felons, those taking prescription drugs for ADHD and those with certain tattoos and ear gauges, the Wall Street Journal reports, though some requirements can be waived.

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Easy. Get rid of the restrictions on felonies, ADHD and tattoos.

Being an Infantry Marine myself and really in a different era, I had limited exposure to WM’s. At the Marine Corps drink fest on the 2015 birthday I talked to a couple of young WMs. I told them that back in the day seeing a WM was as rare as seeing a unicorn. They got a big kick out of that. Later on we had some in our reserve unit. They were all pretty good, none of them were a problem or had any issues I remember.

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What about tattoos and ADHD?

And if we're going to bar potential recruits because they're demographic may cause disciplinary problems down the road then we should definitely be barring women from serving.

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Tattoos. General Amos disliked tattoos so much he had the whole Marine Corps 'sleeves down' world wide for about two years before he relented.



But they let General Mattis in. This is from Duffel Blog, if you don't get it.

ADHD? How many people will that add?

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And if we're going to bar potential recruits because they're demographic may cause disciplinary problems down the road then we should definitely be barring women from serving.

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Have you got any data that would support that idea?