[Robe]

The Marines selected two females last year to go through their Infantry Officers Course at Quanico.
These were not hand picked daises, there met all the standards.
Both Failed/Dropped the course.
One wrote an article for Marine Corps Times publication.
Titled “ Get over it , We are not all Equal”.
She related how she suffered more leg cramping,Stress Fractures,loss of leg control,(Knees buckling) dizziness, loss of muscle tissue,and body weight at a faster rate than her male Marines

There is one and only one reason to make changes to the tip of the spear is to add to it's effectiveness. A force multiplier for instance.
This change is about one thing, female promotion possibilities.

This is gonna get people killed, either by guys trying to protect the females, or the lack of abilities on the part of females. Israel found this out the hard way

I know first hand, my son is a infantry platoon leader. It's bad enough that he has female engagement team (FET)attached to his unit.
They don't co-habitate, but live at brigade HQ.They get driven up in a Humvee,prior to the patrol

They try to keep up, but never the less slow his troops down.
He tells me he is afraid of what will happen if they get in to a real s$it slinging firefight.

[gandalftb]

The article is a mess.

First, candidates attend the Officer Candidates School, 10 weeks. Then they attend the The Basic School at Quantico, 21 weeks.

After all that, the 2nd Lieutenants choose a military occupation specialty school, one of which is the Infantry Officer Course. It is a brutal course that has no gender separate standards and it is brutal and many men wash out and transfer to easier schools.