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I am a 10 year Marine vet. This post is not a bashing of women Marines. I knew female Marines that were better at being Marines than I was, and I knew a lot that weren't; just like the males I knew. With that said, WMs were held to a different (lower) standard in general. While I liked most of them I served with, I dreaded having to work with them most of the time. Of the several WM officers I was subordinate to, only one of them was what I considered to be on par with her male counter parts; even if it did us NCOs a year to get her that way. Like I said, I am not bashing WMs, rather I am bashing the system that created the reality that made me , and fellow marines, feel the way we did about them.

I am certain that this Lt. Col. was very unpleasant to be around when she was in training/command mode. I never met an officer who wasn't unpleasant when they were kicking people in the a$$es (especially mine) making them better Marines. If, as the article alludes to, she was removed because of political (correct?) reasons because she was destroying the status quo, it's a damn shame. In today's world these young Marines face a threat matrix that Marines haven't seen in a long time; maybe never when looked at a certain way. They need leaders who are willing to stand in the door for them, tell them the truth, and make them better Marines than their predecessors. The Marine Corps has had its fair share of political drama, it is the nature of the beast. It's always been able to minimize it, though, especially when compared tot eh other services. If the Marines fall as far down the PC rabbit hole as the other services have, then the country is truly screwed, because the last wide based warrior culture (as opposed to the narrow based SF/SOC community) in the military will have been compromised.