Marine Corps to open infantry training to enlisted women

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-08-25 15:38

Article here. Excerpt:

'The Marine Corps will allow enlisted women to participate in basic infantry training beginning this fall as part of ongoing research to determine what additional ground combat jobs may open to female personnel.

New female enlisted Marines will volunteer for spots in the service’s Infantry Training Battalion, mirroring a related effort allowing new female lieutenants to enroll in the Corps’ Infantry Officer Course, according to an official planning document obtained by Marine Corps Times. Titled “Assignment of Women in Combat Units,” the document is dated Aug. 16.

“Female Marines will have the opportunity to go through the same infantry training course as their male counterparts,” the document states. However, as with the research involving female officers, “female enlisted Marines who successfully complete infantry training as part of this research process will not be assigned infantry as a military occupational specialty and will not be assigned to infantry units.”

It’s unclear whether any enlisted women have volunteered yet. Marine Corps officials were not immediately available to discuss the plan.
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The Corps’ research is expected to last years, and Marine officials have said no women will join infantry units before 2015. Even then, the services will be allowed to ask for exceptions that, if granted by the Pentagon, could keep some jobs closed to women.'

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... here's the deal potential female attendees of this training have: go through it, risking injury of course, and learn new skills you won't be allowed to exercise. And you'll still have to go through another course of training to qualify for a non-combat MOS.

If no or few female Marines show interest in this fantastic deal (??), none will be assigned (i.e., forced) to attend the school.

On top of all that, Marine command is reserving the right to restrict what combat MOSes female Marines may have access to.

Now if you're a female Marine, is this a grenade you'd jump on? I mean, whose life would you be saving? And exactly what's in it for you, anyway?

I am inclined to ask, "Why are the Marines bothering?" But I confess, I'm not in on this loop. Is there some other incentive being offered? Have no idea. Just from this article, I can't see why a female Marine'd even bother. After all, any female Marine who'd want to go through combat infantry training would, I presume, actually want to go, for whatever reason, into combat. But this approach informs her ahead of time that she isn't going to be sent into it. So why do it?

It's almost like the "experiment" is set up to fail.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2013-08-25 18:54

"Now if you're a female Marine, is this a grenade you'd jump on? I mean, whose life would you be saving? And exactly what's in it for you, anyway?"

Well, hopefully they'd do it to serve their country. Defend the constitution. All that good shit. Being a marine isn't a *job*.

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Submitted by MrWombat on Mon, 2013-08-26 05:57

there was a piece somewhere (Drudge?) about lowering the training requirements for the perpetual victims. the whole military is turning into a country club for women.

on the way to work I watch every day as 200+ pound female fat arses try to lumber around the track during p.t.

slashing military funding, embarrassing honorable men, leaving men behind, false accusations treated as gospel - sounds like a commie plan to gradually de-nut our military, and it is working.

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Submitted by daveinga on Tue, 2013-08-27 12:12