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Marines, Army prepare women for combat
Foxnews.com ^ | 4/13/2014

Posted on 04/13/2014 5:36:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux

The military is taking steps to prepare women for combat roles in 2016.

The Marine Corps announced that it would give young female lieutenants who wash out of the grueling Infantry Officer Course a second shot, same as their male counterparts.

The Army is conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat. The study involves 60 women and 100 men.

CBS News reported on both developments last week.

The Marine Corps announcement came after Marine 2nd Lt. Sage Santangelo took the Infantry Officer Court and wrote about her experience last month in an op-ed in The Washington Post. She didn’t make it past the first day and blamed the Marine Corps for a dual standard that sets up women to flunk the course.

Fifteen young women Marines have taken the course. All washed out and all but one washed out on the first day.

She wrote that male officers could retake the course if they failed, but that women could not.

The commandant of the Marine Corps ordered the change after he read her op-ed.

"I'm very humbled that he would consider my opinions and my thoughts," Santangelo, 24, told CBS. "I'm hopeful that it will help others, and I'm glad to see that he's doing that."

The Marines invited female officers to take the Infantry Officer Course in 2012. The 13-week course tests the mettle of potential infantry officers.

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KEYWORDS: militaryareadiness; militarywomen; obamalegacy; womenincombat
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Better women than gays.
1 posted on 04/13/2014 5:36:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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I know some Crossfit level women who can more than withstand the rigors of Quantico.


2 posted on 04/13/2014 5:37:39 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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This "her"?
3 posted on 04/13/2014 5:39:11 PM PDT by EEGator
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They’re gonna cook hot meals for our boys?

Awesome...


4 posted on 04/13/2014 5:39:20 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: RoosterRedux

Good luck.

We’re f^ck’t with a ‘T’.


5 posted on 04/13/2014 5:41:12 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: RoosterRedux

no. neither are a good thing.


6 posted on 04/13/2014 5:42:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat

Are these people series?

THE FITTER THE FRIGGING BETTER!

7 posted on 04/13/2014 5:43:11 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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Camo nail polish?


8 posted on 04/13/2014 5:44:40 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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Let them try again. If they washed out on the FIRST day, there is little chance that they will make it through the entire course.


9 posted on 04/13/2014 5:45:05 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: EEGator

No, that wasn’t him.;-)


10 posted on 04/13/2014 5:46:15 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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The very strongest woman can only hope to compete with a well below average male in physical stamina.


11 posted on 04/13/2014 5:46:17 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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The Army is conducting a study to test just how fit a soldier has to be to engage in combat.

Let's see, what will the study find, that we need higher standards, the same standard we use, or that we can get by with a lower standard.

12 posted on 04/13/2014 5:49:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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I wonder why there is no push to put women in the NFL or MLB? Is it because there are physical differences?


13 posted on 04/13/2014 5:50:25 PM PDT by armydawg505
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Combat is not crossfit. It is a fight to the death with whatever is at hand, even if all you have is bare hands. Combat is no place for any girl, not if you want to live and win.


14 posted on 04/13/2014 5:51:07 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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I thought they said the standards weren’t going to be lowered?


15 posted on 04/13/2014 5:52:02 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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The very strongest woman can only hope to compete with a well below average male in physical stamina.

I'm not a big defender of women in combat but your statement is not true.

Here is the truth...

The very strongest woman can only hope to compete with a male slightly below those of very strongest in physical stamina.

I have worked out for years and run and biked against women.

The best of them are way ahead of the average male.

The average male can barely get off the couch...much less compete in a physical contest.

16 posted on 04/13/2014 5:53:10 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Always A Marine

Who would you rather fight next to...a fag or a tough women?


17 posted on 04/13/2014 5:54:17 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: EEGator

She must truly hate her body to deface it that way.


18 posted on 04/13/2014 5:55:08 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: RoosterRedux

The Taliban are waiting. It won’t be pretty.


19 posted on 04/13/2014 5:55:37 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Will Gunny R. Lee Ermey be preparing the gyrls?


20 posted on 04/13/2014 5:55:50 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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