re: Male and female Marine platoons to integrate at recruit training for the first time

So women get all the benefits of a career in the military without the responsibility of registering for selective service. Sounds about right for modern America.

Unbelievable

My son and father-in-law are turning over in their grave.

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Most women join the military to trap a man, that is a fact.

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Or another woman

This is genius, they’ll never finish their pipelines because they’ll be away on maternity leave.

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This should work at well. I wonder if the marines will be allowed to honestly evaluate the problems this causes.

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They may be allowed to evaluate it, but the Pentagon will tell them to ignore the data, and make it happen.

That’s what happened with their study on combat arms, and integrating women.

Mixed units performed worse in 70 of 134 measurable catagories, often by a large margin. Women were also injured far more frequently, and their injuries were much more serious, leading to long periods when they were away from their units.

And the study just stuck with raw measurables, like fireman carries, or accuracy with a heavy weapon. It did not get into the discipline or fraternization issues.

The Corp ultimately concluded that integrated units were far less lethal, and far less reliable. And that putting women into combat arms roles was a terrible terrible idea.

As a previous enlisted active Marine, this gives me a sad.

Pretty much my opinion on it had been stated multiple times by others, but it’s incredibly irresponsible and not efficient at all. The commandant is obviously just another yes man and will play the political game. Mattis was the last high ranking officer that truly had the enlisted guys’ backs.

The officers who sign off on this are more to blame than anyone because they know better but are advancing their political careers by playing the game.

Only a matter of time.

But maybe, just maybe, we get lucky and Webb becomes Secdef and reverses all this.