via USNI News.
But what kills me is this gender norming bullshit. Milstead is lying his fucking ass off and he damn well knows it. Put a female loader in one tank and male in another and see which one has a higher rate of fire.
Same thing on a gun line.
Have your mythical Amazons do a forced march against a group of male Marines and see how they fair.
But the real test will be in combat. That will be interesting.
The Marine Corps intends to build up a female cadre of officers and noncommissioned officers to help women as more military occupations and units become open to females, the deputy commandant for manpower and reserve affairs told the House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee on Thursday.Chesty you're a liar.
Lt. Gen. Robert Milstead Jr. told the panel that it “is not going to happen overnight,” but the Marine Corps is learning from its pilot program—48 female Marines working in 19 the battalion headquarters of previously closed positions, such as tank units—on how to proceed in opening more military occupations to women by 2016.
Milstead stressed that women will “have to meet the [same] physical standards” established for men to be accepted into training for previously male-only jobs. He said that 250 of the 335 specialties in the Marine Corps have more than one demanding physical standard. The standards, such as lifting and loading a tank round, were “developed without regard to gender.”
His Army counterpart, Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg, said that all standards are being reviewed now as the policy is lifted that excludes women from direct ground combat operations. “We’re looking at that for the 110-pound male as well,” he said.
“The key is to validate the standard . . . to ensure it’s right,” Juliet Beyler, director of the Pentagon’s Office of Officer and Enlisted Personnel Management, said.
Milstead said the services also need to study the social and psychological impact of opening those occupations both to the women entering them—their resiliency and ability to handle stress—and the effect on small units. “It’s equally important as the physical.”
Old breed? New breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference so long as it’s the Marine breed. Chesty Puller, USMCThere's a huge fucking difference now.
But what kills me is this gender norming bullshit. Milstead is lying his fucking ass off and he damn well knows it. Put a female loader in one tank and male in another and see which one has a higher rate of fire.
Same thing on a gun line.
Have your mythical Amazons do a forced march against a group of male Marines and see how they fair.
But the real test will be in combat. That will be interesting.
