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Two more Female Marines Dropped from Infantry Course
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 1/9/15 | Aaron Maclean

Posted on 01/10/2015 6:55:37 AM PST by ABN 505

Two female Marine officers who volunteered to attempt the Corps’ challenging Infantry Officer Course did not proceed beyond the first day of the course, a Marine Corps spokesperson confirms to the Free Beacon. The two were the only female officers attempting the course in the current cycle, which began Thursday in Quantico, Virginia.

With the two most recent drops, there have been 29 attempts by female officers to pass the course since women have been allowed to volunteer, with none making it to graduation. (At least one woman has attempted the course more than once.) Only three female officers have made it beyond the initial day of training, a grueling evaluation known as the Combat Endurance Test, or CET. Male officers also regularly fail to pass the CET, and the overall course has a substantial attrition rate for males.


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After seeing the picture in the article I understand why. Not exactly Amazons!
1 posted on 01/10/2015 6:55:37 AM PST by ABN 505
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To: ABN 505

Bye bye. I don’t look to gurls for protection.


2 posted on 01/10/2015 6:57:22 AM PST by Wage Slave
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To: ABN 505

So will the 0 administration drop the standards to please the feminazis?


3 posted on 01/10/2015 6:57:25 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: I want the USA back

“So will the 0 administration drop the standards to please the feminazis?”

They’ll impose quotas, which amounts to the same thing.


4 posted on 01/10/2015 6:59:19 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: ABN 505

They don’t call them the few, the proud, the Marines for nothing.

Of course, the article fails to mention many males fail the course, as well.


5 posted on 01/10/2015 6:59:23 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: ABN 505

“...which are substantially higher than for the enlisted course–are unrealistically challenging, and need to be lowered.”

Why lower it - combat action doesn’t lower when a female hits the field...this is BS!


6 posted on 01/10/2015 6:59:41 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: tennmountainman

You might want to read that second paragraph again.


7 posted on 01/10/2015 7:03:05 AM PST by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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To: tennmountainman

Perhaps you should read it again.


8 posted on 01/10/2015 7:03:08 AM PST by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: tennmountainman

Reread the last sentence posted above.


9 posted on 01/10/2015 7:03:27 AM PST by jimpick
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To: Wage Slave

I hate to be the one to say it, but I gotta say it.

It is a man’s world and will always be a man’s world. Folks will come out and flame the crap outta me for it, but take it up with the Almighty. I didn’t set it up.


10 posted on 01/10/2015 7:03:49 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: ABN 505

I mean, really, why are there not more female moving men? Asphalt workers? Plumbers? Bone surgeons? Some jobs require brute strength. Most women don’t have it. Now, if I wanted to be a female Marine, I would practice shooting all day long until I was an excellent marksman. You can’t beat that. Then I would tell them “I can hit a fly from 1000 feet, can you use me?”


11 posted on 01/10/2015 7:04:11 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: tennmountainman

Perhaps actually reading the article before commenting might help you appear more intelligent. Jus’ sayin’...


12 posted on 01/10/2015 7:04:49 AM PST by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: servantboy777

That’s what I say, men should pay child support and plenty of it, they can make way more money digging a ditch than the women can with their little 12,000 office jobs.


13 posted on 01/10/2015 7:06:26 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: ABN 505

You mean “G.I. Jane” wasn’t a documentary???? (/shock)


14 posted on 01/10/2015 7:07:34 AM PST by freedumb2003 (AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
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To: ABN 505

Watching cross fit woman’s competition onESPN I think any of those gals could do any marine course. And they are all lovely to look at.


15 posted on 01/10/2015 7:08:29 AM PST by larryjohnson (USAF(Ret))
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Interesting. What specifically happens on the first day of training that eliminates all of the women? Do they fail some required physical fitness tests?


16 posted on 01/10/2015 7:12:46 AM PST by LiveFree99
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Well now, I think we have an answer to this dilemma.

Let the Marines recruit pretty cross fit women.

That should scare camel dung out of Abdul.


17 posted on 01/10/2015 7:14:12 AM PST by JonPreston
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Sounds like the two girls left on their own....That's why they call them Marines little girl.

They have something you don't have.

18 posted on 01/10/2015 7:15:52 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Gen.Blather

“So will the 0 administration drop the standards to please the feminazis?”

“They’ll impose quotas, which amounts to the same thing.”....

Sounds a lot like Affirmative Action to me.


19 posted on 01/10/2015 7:17:15 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Gen.Blather

“So will the 0 administration drop the standards to please the feminazis?”

“They’ll impose quotas, which amounts to the same thing.”....

Sounds a lot like Affirmative Action to me.


20 posted on 01/10/2015 7:17:16 AM PST by DaveA37
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