Two more Female Marines Dropped from Infantry Course

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 1/9/15 | Aaron Maclean

[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.

[txrefugee]

Welcome to the real world, girls. Forget that song about the ant and the rubber tree plant. Men and women are not the same. That’s why you can have babies.

[Blue Collar Christian]

This course screens out a lot of men too. The idea is to only take the fittest.

Once “quotas” are imposed, standard will be dropped so women can participate all the way to graduation, and we will have Marine combat officers that are not fit, both male and female.

Won’t that be great for our country?

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Will they drop the standards to please the feminazis? You can bet on it. Same will happen for the Army Ranger School. It’s just a matter of time.

[spokeshave]

I mean, really, why are there not more female moving men? Asphalt workers

Here is a 61 year old fluids technician who started as a roughneck on a drilling rig

"I imagine things are different today. I started roughnecking in 1976. I haven’t worked in the industry steadily, since there’s a boom-and-bust aspect to it. Probably I’ve been 20 years in the industry. It’s strictly been in the drilling end of it. Not production or exploration."

More at I imagine things are different today. I started roughnecking in 1976. I haven’t worked in the industry steadily, since there’s a boom-and-bust aspect to it. Probably I’ve been 20 years in the industry. It’s strictly been in the drilling end of it. Not production or exploration.

More at: http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/10/07/essay-life-as-a-female-roughneck/#4168-2

[mware]

Lower the standards and you lower the life expectancy of those serving under you.

[yldstrk]

Probably eating a live bug or reptile...

[Albion Wilde]

The Pentagon makes it easier in 3... 2... 1...

[PoloSec]

A failure rate of 100% since the program started, look for charges of sexism/racism to follow, equal opportunity type lawyers everywhere are salivating over their prospects.

[bigbob]

That puzzles me too. I know female athletes who will leave the guys in the dust, except for thing which require pure muscle mass.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its not a man’s world but it is a man’s Marine infantry for sure. For a good reason.

[lurk]

Obviously the standards are too high. Time to lower them.

[ABN 505]

I think that is the plan, anyone who thinks these people have the best interests of this Country at heart... well I know of a Bridge that I can sell Cheap!

[LiveFree99]

Well, I’d try a grasshopper but draw the line at a cockroach!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Will they drop the standards to please the feminazis? You can bet on it. Same will happen for the Army Ranger School. It’s just a matter of time.”

Why not? They already did it with gays and minorities. It’s only logical that the next progressive influence will be women and illegal aliens.

[mware]

Even during Boot Camp, there are separate standards for female recruit.

Males MUST do 3 pull ups to pass, female recruits do no even do pull ups, but a flex hang.

They just do not have the strength in their arms. Not sure but I suspect it has to do with female physiology and anatomy.

[Dr. Pritchett]

Sounds to me like are being integrated into the course. They are failing. Just like a lot of the men do. Just because they can’t pass doesn’t mean they’re not being integrated.

I suspect they will have to find some verbal gymnastics to rationalize how CHANGING the standards is not the same as LOWERING them. As it said in the Marine article, the standards are unrealistic and unnecessarily tough, I guess.

I hope the Rangers can be as steadfast as Marines in not lowering the standards. We’ll see.

As with so many topics these days, a candid and open discussion is not welcome or allowed.

[LiveFree99]

Yes, I would think that a superfit 6-ft. Amazon could at least get through the first day, if not the first week.

[Bruce Kurtz]

“The Marine Corps, along with the other services, has been evaluating how to comply with the order to gender-integrate its combat arms specialties by the end of this year, or apply for special exemptions.”

“Female enlisted Marines have been able to graduate from the enlisted School of Infantry’s Infantry Training Battalion in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, though at a lower rate than male enlisted Marines, while female officers have faced great difficulty in graduating from the course in Quantico.”

So some enlisted female Marines have been able to graduate from the enlisted Infantry school. It would be interesting to know if any standards were lowered to allow this to happen. And this order to gender integrate the combat arms is a social experiment out of control. God help the Marines and the others in the combat arms.

[servantboy777]

Well and I understand how a woman must feel at that statement. Not being a smart @$$, but God did set up the world with a specific hierarchy and man as the stronger vessel.

When I say that, most folks recoil. Partially in anger/disgust they will shoot back with harsh comebacks and so forth.

Having a biblical world view, it is what it is. Man has loused it up on multiple occasions, but it is clear than man was given stewardship over all that is in the earth.

Genesis explains this hierarchy. In God's eyes, man and woman are the same spiritually, but not in the temporal realm. You cannot have two captains of a ship. If there are two attempting to steer the ship, the ship is destined for a wreck.

Same goes with traditional family values. A man does not LORD over the woman, but is setup as the leader in the home, spiritually and physically.

I am really not attempting to be chauvinistic. I just see many ills in our society having it's roots from the destruction of the traditional family unit.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Enjoy your fantasy. Its a good one. :-)

I think everyone (most everyone) agrees that women are not physically strong enough to be combat soldiers. That’s about as far as I’m willing to go with the “Its a mans world” carpola.