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Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger, "There Will 'Definitely' Be More Coed Companies ..
Military.com ^ | 11 Jul 2019 | Gina Harkins

Posted on 07/11/2019 10:10:08 PM PDT by robowombat

New Marine Commandant: There Will 'Definitely' Be More Coed Companies at Boot Camp

The Marine Corps will continue looking at ways for men and women to train together at both of its recruit depots, the service's new top general said, even though one of the bases is currently closed to women.

Men and women will "definitely" train in the same companies at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, Commandant Gen. David Berger said this week. About 50 women recently graduated from a typically all-male training battalion there in March.

But hurdles remain when it comes to integrating training at the Marine Corps' all-male recruit depot in San Diego despite a congresswoman's call to make the base coed by 2028.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bootcamp
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""Gender matters," he told Military.com during an interview at the Pentagon. "It matters in that it's a struggle to get through that basic training for officers and enlisted. It's designed to be hard. There are times ... during that first portion of training where you're wondering, 'Can we make it through this?'"
1 posted on 07/11/2019 10:10:08 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat

A few good women.


2 posted on 07/11/2019 10:15:53 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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Now the Marines have the brain infection?


3 posted on 07/11/2019 10:16:41 PM PDT by northislander
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Liberals are going to cost lives.


4 posted on 07/11/2019 10:17:59 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: northislander

It will pass.


5 posted on 07/11/2019 10:18:39 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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To: robowombat

Oh brother!


6 posted on 07/11/2019 10:19:00 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Jonty30

Lower the standards for females, bring in trannies, have homosexuals “serve” openly.

Let’s hope there is not a major war. We might just be on the losing end this time.


7 posted on 07/11/2019 10:27:40 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump IS The Resistance!)
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Maybe the plan is to send the pervs and women in first as a way to get rid of them...


8 posted on 07/11/2019 10:29:26 PM PDT by northislander
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Liberals are going to cost lives.

This is absolutely true. The ground combat parts US armed forces are drifting into a situation similar to the late 1940’s. What happened when the rubber met the road in the opening weeks of the Korean War was not pretty. Read This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenback, the author who was a career US Army officer was in the Korean War and knew of what he wrote. This book was one of two, the other being ‘Street Without Joy’, that practically every Army officer either had read or was in his library in the mid 1960’s. It should still be so. After a lot of people are killed unnecessarily money will be thrown at the problem and there will be a crash drill to do quick fixes. The problems illuminated in the first weeks of the war remained in some form until well into the static phase of combat. Such things can't be made to go away by infusions of cash and some general a*s kicking.

9 posted on 07/11/2019 10:31:30 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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10 republican traitors just voted along with democrats to over-ride Trump’s Transgender bill- the following are the 10 republicans

Susan Brooks (In.),
Brian Fitzpatrick (Penn.),
Trey Hollingsworth (In.),
Will Hurd (Texas), John Katko
(N.Y.), Tom Reed (N.Y.),
Elise Stefanik (N.Y.),
Steve Stivers (Ohio),
Fred Upton (Mich.)
and Greg Walden (Ore.)


10 posted on 07/11/2019 10:41:43 PM PDT by Bob434
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sorry- i meant

Trump’s Transgender BAN for the military-


11 posted on 07/11/2019 10:42:41 PM PDT by Bob434
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What's with the guy from Texas,Will Hurd ?
12 posted on 07/11/2019 10:46:58 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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no idea- here’s a link to an article discussing it:

https://usbreakingnews.net/2019/07/11/house-democrats-10-republicans-vote-to-override-trumps-transgender-troop-ban/


13 posted on 07/11/2019 10:51:18 PM PDT by Bob434
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Usually, the first thing a new Commandant does is make some change to the Uniform Regs.

God save my Marine Corps, because nobody else will.


14 posted on 07/11/2019 10:52:06 PM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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This is all misdirection. Just because a BAM recruit platoon is ADMINISTRATIVELY part of an otherwise male recruit company does NOT make the training coed.

Recruit platoons have nothing to do with each other, on a day to day basis. They might share classes, say, on the care and feeding of the M-16A4, but unlike high school, you don't get to choose your seat, with the dummys in the back of the room and the nerds up front.

A WM platoon might as well be on Hilton Head, across the river, for all the co-mingling involved. Platoons 101, 102, 103, and 104 are in the same recruit company, but exist on separate planets.

Do not get your bowels in an uproar.

15 posted on 07/11/2019 10:53:00 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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I have no doubt what you say is so. However, womwn in combat arms proponents continue to persistently push their agenda:

Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat who chairs the House Armed Services Military Personnel subcommittee, tried to push the Marine Corps toward coed boot camp when she added an amendment to the 2020 defense authorization bill that would have required the service to stop separating male and female recruits.

The amendment didn't make it into the Republican-led Senate's version of the bill. Speier, who wanted to see men and women training together by 2025 at Parris Island and within eight years at San Diego, said doing so would make the military stronger.

The Army has already gone a long way down the road towards ‘degenderization’, as it now is being semi-officially called. The feminazis are determined to do the same thing with the Marines. Its a train that is hard to stop, look at the effort DJT had to engage in to end trannies in the military.

16 posted on 07/11/2019 11:04:30 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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Awe, that’s so sweet.


17 posted on 07/11/2019 11:30:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Awe, that’s so sweet.

What ???


18 posted on 07/11/2019 11:42:02 PM PDT by robowombat (Orthodox)
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Until bodies start coming home, idiots like Speier will persist. The cost of a civilian running an army is blood. It's the price we pay for a Constitution.

The Corps is playing a hustle. They can play stupid, and point to this double shuffle I've described as "Co-Ed Training."

Democrats have always believed that they are smarter than the military, and only thuggish goons would spend a career studying something so simple as mass killing. Witness how successful Stalin's politically reliable commissars were in stopping Hitler during the first year of Operation Weiss...

As for the Army, and bisexual training, recall this is the same bunch of goofs that graduated a rabid Communist from Hudson High, a couple of years ago. The Army always manages to be a little behind the curve at spoofing Congress.

19 posted on 07/11/2019 11:54:55 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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This was tried during the Spanish Civil War, and it cost lives then. Lefties then, too.


20 posted on 07/12/2019 12:13:56 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Investigate! Investigate! There are charges yet to fabricate!)
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