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Female Marines to sleep next to male Marines in field
Fox 19 ^ | 1-26-2017

Posted on 01/27/2017 4:59:46 PM PST by Snickering Hound

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To: lightman

“There will be plenty of “servicing” in the field.”

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Oh, “you betcha,” as Sarah would say.


21 posted on 01/27/2017 5:23:44 PM PST by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: Snickering Hound
I think I can see their logic: pair the young male Marine with the female, then nine months later sign the enlistment contract for the bouncing baby Marine.

The local recruiter gets to "make mission" and the Corps has a new recruit within a few years. Keeping it all in the family, as it were.

22 posted on 01/27/2017 5:25:16 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Given that their job descriptions are so different (rifleman, machine gunner, mortarman), they won’t even be in the same part of their company, assuming they are in the same company. Rifleman goes into any rifle squad, machine gunner may be in a weapons squad/platoon, and the mortar belongs in the weapons platoon, usually separated from the rest of the company in order to give some stand-off for ranging the mortars. The thing that is certain is they won’t be able to depend on another female so they present a challenge to leadership. I saw it happen in the 70s when the Army decided to integrate women into missile artillery units.


23 posted on 01/27/2017 5:32:15 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: WENDLE

AMEN!!


24 posted on 01/27/2017 5:32:25 PM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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25 posted on 01/27/2017 5:32:58 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Snickering Hound

My wife thought that this was progress, until I explained the logistics of taking a dump in the back of an amtrac.

I believe the ladies of 1/8 are in for a rude awakening.


26 posted on 01/27/2017 5:33:12 PM PST by NYleatherneck
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To: Snickering Hound

What a freakin’ mess.


27 posted on 01/27/2017 5:33:50 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Snickering Hound

The whole concept of mixing all those young people into one mass group is insane.....good grief is anyone really so naive as to think that this will work????


28 posted on 01/27/2017 5:35:25 PM PST by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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To: 2banana
I bet she never carries the M240 or mortar

If she's sleeping with the boys, I bet she never carries her own ruck

29 posted on 01/27/2017 5:37:17 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: Snickering Hound

I think the MC is making a statement here that if the government insists on women in combat, they will be treated just like male Marines with no special favors. You asked for it, you got it.


30 posted on 01/27/2017 5:38:51 PM PST by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Snickering Hound

Hey - Mac and Harm did it in one JAG episode - pretty good one too!!!


31 posted on 01/27/2017 5:42:04 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Snickering Hound

I wonder if Mattis will end this nonsense.


32 posted on 01/27/2017 5:43:36 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Snickering Hound

Any gal good to go will earn my respect.


33 posted on 01/27/2017 5:56:55 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: Yaelle

Same way you “take a dump “ in the field. First, get out of your foxhole. If under fire, “hold it” until you can.

Living in the field ain’t much fun, especially when it is raining, cold or someone is shooting at you...or all three at once.

Gender equality! Ain’t that just grand!


34 posted on 01/27/2017 5:57:34 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: WENDLE

Amen. We have a real CinC now. Stop this abomination.


35 posted on 01/27/2017 6:00:11 PM PST by Bigg Red (The best f-word we can apply to Obama on this glorious inauguration day is "former".)
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To: goldstategop

Yes.

When a woman has to relieve herself on the battlefield, the men will have to surround her to protect her from view and just out of instinct.

This is crap.

Get back in the kitchen.


36 posted on 01/27/2017 6:03:04 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Yaelle

They can take birth control pills to prevent the need for that, but then again, isn’t having some medication essentially the same reason other people aren’t allowed?


37 posted on 01/27/2017 6:05:44 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Yaelle

They can take birth control pills to prevent the need for that, but then again, isn’t having some medication essentially the same reason other people aren’t allowed?


38 posted on 01/27/2017 6:05:52 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Snickering Hound
"You're going to have sex, you're going to have love, you're going to have relationships, and it's going to overly complicate the command structure," Marine veteran, Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, told the Marine Corps Times.

Yup. It sure will.

Non-line unit. Out in the desert 30 years ago. My girlfriend was in one platoon, I in another. We made it a point to meet-up at least once a day.

39 posted on 01/27/2017 6:13:41 PM PST by VeniVidiVici
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To: goldstategop

That’s one way to get them off the front lines.


40 posted on 01/27/2017 6:23:43 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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