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17% of male Marines say they'll leave if women move into combat positions
Assoc. Press ^ | 02/01/2013 | JULIE WATSON

Posted on 02/01/2013 11:27:41 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

A Marine Corps survey shows 17 percent of male Marine respondents say they would likely leave the Corps if women move into combat positions.

The survey says that number jumps to 22 percent if women are assigned involuntarily to those jobs.

Results of the survey of 53,000 Marines were released to The Associated Press on Friday.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: marine; marinecoprs; women
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To: digger48

Drive as many conservative and Christian men out of the military as possible so that those remaining will have few qualms about firing on “rebels” who refuse to bow down to the leftist dictatoriate.


21 posted on 02/01/2013 12:35:42 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: momtothree

I think their next move is to combine the USMC with the Army, something they have wanted for a long time. Semper Fi


22 posted on 02/01/2013 12:42:46 PM PST by gunner03
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To: MrB

If men and women are equal, why do women have a choice about combat and men have none? When my son enlisted, he didn’t have a “choice” about going into combat. just one more way to cause resentment.
One way to get women out of the service is to make it totally equal... Selective service.... Combat assignments for all. Treat the women just like the men and we’ll see how many Enlist. But the politicians will insist on quotas and 125 lb women will be able to carry less than the guys in order to be fair. Between this and the rules of engagement . Our military is being destroyed


23 posted on 02/01/2013 12:57:44 PM PST by t2buckeye
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To: Responsibility2nd

Would these be the new gay Marines?


24 posted on 02/01/2013 1:01:47 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Chainmail

All foxholes will need ADA compliant wheelchair ramps.


25 posted on 02/01/2013 1:14:05 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: momtothree
Next... the draft because we won’t have enough people in the military.

And that draft had better include women this time, and they had better be drafted for combat roles.

They want "equality", so I say give it to them.

26 posted on 02/01/2013 1:20:34 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Responsibility2nd

Only 17% real men in our Marine Corps? So damned sad.
Our dead VETS must be spinning in their graves.


27 posted on 02/01/2013 1:24:03 PM PST by polymuser ("We have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" (HRC))
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To: digger48

Mission almost Accomplished

Churches done check, boy scouts done check, military almost done and as soon as it is they will empty out the jail system and hand these cretans guns to control the populace. A civilian national force as well equipped and well funded as the military


28 posted on 02/01/2013 1:24:58 PM PST by ronnie raygun ( Lexington / Concord, America's first gun grab attempt)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’ll have to ask my two nephews. One is a helicopter pilot, the other a private.


29 posted on 02/01/2013 2:12:47 PM PST by manic4organic (It was nice knowing you, America.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I wonder what the percentage would be if the only Marines surveyed were infantry battalion Marines?


30 posted on 02/01/2013 3:37:22 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Responsibility2nd

If - heaven forbid - we have another world-wide conflict, expect virtually 100% of these women to suddenly become pregnant.


31 posted on 02/01/2013 5:35:25 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Saying and doing are 2 very different things.

Even for Jarheads.


32 posted on 02/01/2013 9:20:56 PM PST by procrustes (You make Free Republic look bad!)
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33 posted on 02/01/2013 9:28:54 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Responsibility2nd

Those other 83% will change their minds once they have to carry the heavy loads of water, fuel, ammo, etc, or once deployment hits but magically 30-50% of the women are reported pregnant and don’t have to go. The services already see these numbers on deployments, now the infantry will see them.


34 posted on 02/04/2013 2:16:24 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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