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[Ishmael]

29 female Marine Officers have been accepted into the Combat Endurance Test for Marine officers. None have made it past the second day.

So now the pressure is building to force the Marines to lower their standards. How far? So that some will make it to the third day? Shades of Patsy Schroeder.

It seems to be a trend in the US society in general to lower standards to accommodate the lowest common denominator.

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Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There must be at least one, so the standards must go lower.


Where is Demi when we actually need her?


Think Pink - pajama boy...

 

[RobDownSouth]

29 female Marine Officers have been accepted into the Combat Endurance Test for Marine officers. None have made it past the second day.

So now the pressure is building to force the Marines to lower their standards. How far? So that some will make it to the third day? Shades of Patsy Schroeder.

It seems to be a trend in the US society in general to lower standards to accommodate the lowest common denominator.

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Ishmael

Well this is certainly cause for celebration.

Waiter! Boxed Wine for EVERYONE!
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[Lancecastor]

I blame teh Rape Culture.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Most institutions host the agent of their eventual demise. The military always hosts political commanders who wither under fire because politics is what they know NOT military arts and sciences.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Most institutions host the agent of their eventual demise. The military always hosts political commanders who wither under fire because politics is what they know NOT military arts and sciences.

Like the SCOTUS, one has to follow the fashions of the current aristocracy.

 

[sufisaint]

Drones don't comeback as damaged goods and don't disobey orders...that the future of military.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Drones don't comeback as damaged goods and don't disobey orders...that the future of military.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There are always damages.

Where do you want to take the cut? That is the first thing I teach in my self-defense classes...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Like the SCOTUS, one has to follow the fashions of the current aristocracy.

And when the internal rot is enough the institution fails.

 

[about_average]

Just because outside groups are calling for lowered standards at the IOC, doesn't mean the marines will, especially since there's no indication female marines want it lowered.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Yeah...well...men can't have babies.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Just because outside groups are calling for lowered standards at the IOC, doesn't mean the marines will, especially since there's no indication female marines want it lowered.

The Rainbow generals will restrict recruits to people like themselves, a limp wrist will be the only standard.

A while back I read a memoir of the air war in Italy during WW2. One whole wing was mostly faggots who serviced the wing commander and got rewarded with milk and mail runs while the straights went on the dangerous missions into Rumania and Bavaria.

 

[Jackoffking]

I blame women giving up cigarettes man. Years ago females helped wars and were as capable as their male peers man. Now they are physically weak, they need a drag man.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

I've said a hundred times that females can't cut the standards of the Corps. I know this from experience, but you can bet that Obama will pull the Commandant aside and instruct him to see that those standards are lowered. Political correctness is more important to the liberal than victory. Women in the infantry ranks will get a lot of good men killed.

Boxed wine for you too, chuckles.

 

[miles]

Failure is no longer an option for the PC crowd. Everyone gets a participation trophy.

 

[domroger]

I do not like the idea of female combat troops ,but that is because I'm an old fart .
However if they can pass the tests they should be used .BUT the standards should not be lowered just so there are female officers .

 

[Sean]

Failure is no longer an option for the PC crowd. Everyone gets a participation trophy.

You might actually get something to put on the shelf then!

 

[Ishmael]

Just because outside groups are calling for lowered standards at the IOC, doesn't mean the marines will, especially since there's no indication female marines want it lowered.

What the Marines, male or female wants, doesn't matter in the least. The feminists know that the path to Flag Officer virtually requires serving in a combat arms, and that goes for all the services. The flag officers will be dragged before congress and pummeled and humiliated over and over and over again. This will continue until the standards are lowered so that a female will be able to rise to Chief of Staff.

Ishmael

 

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[Colonel Hogan]

I don't quite understand why the combat skills and physical prowess of an officer need be substantially superior to an enlistee. It would seem that a good argument could be made that the officer candidates are being asked to achieve an unrealistically high standard or that the combat skills of the enlistees are marginal if not inadequate. I would be particularly concerned if the latter were true.

I would think the real value of a combat officer has far more to do with his ability to form an intelligent strategy and clearly communicate how to execute it than the number of additional push-ups he could do over and above his subordinates.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Well this is certainly cause for celebration.

Waiter! Boxed Wine for EVERYONE!

That's Cardboardeaux.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

People spend way to much time trying to fix things that aren't broken.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I don't quite understand why the combat skills and physical prowess of an officer need be substantially superior to an enlistee. It would seem that a good argument could be made that the officer candidates are being asked to achieve an unrealistically high standard or that the combat skills of the enlistees are marginal if not inadequate. I would be particularly concerned if the latter were true.

I would think the real value of a combat officer has far more to do with his ability to form an intelligent strategy and clearly communicate how to execute it than the number of additional push-ups he could do over and above his subordinates.

The officer must set the performance standard for the troops. In boot camp my drill instructor did everything we did, better.