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Marine Corps Just Finished Research To Lower Standards For Women To Join Officer Program
Another effort has been completed to see if women should be incorporated into combat military operations. The Pentagon has been attempting to normalize this for over two years.
The Washington Times reported Sunday that the United States Marine Corps has recently finished research to see if women can finish its Infantry Officer Course (IOC). An IOC diploma, the paper notes, is required to earn the designation of a military officer.
Out of 29 women who tried, none passed; and only four made it through the first day’s combat endurance test.
“The pressure is on the services from the White House’s politically correct crowd vis-a-vis Obama’s Pentagon appointees, who will force the services to accept degraded standards,” argued Robert Maginnis, a retired Army officer and author of Deadly Consequences: How Cowards Are Pushing Women Into Combat.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced in January 2013 that women would no longer be prohibited from serving in direct ground combat, The Washington Times noted.
“I absolutely agree that the military should have one standard from the beginning, and it should be the men’s higher standards,” wrote Jude Eden, a retired Marine, in a piece for Western Journalism last June.
Can we carry another man on our back with both our full combat load and his? These differences in ability are deal-breakers in combat.
The standards are not arbitrary. They’re designed to keep the weak out because accommodating the weak means lives lost and mission failure.
This is not just competitive sports; this is war. Infantry officers must not only be educated, brave, and highly athletic. They must be better at everything than all their men because Marine officers lead from the front.
Hence their motto: Ductus Exemplo, leadership by example. Which of these women is better than an entire infantry platoon?
Today, advocates for women in combat, primarily civilian feminists and a handful of feminist officers, are doing everything they can to see that the standards are lowered once more to accommodate women.
Men in the special operations community are also concerned that women cannot perform the same tasks they can, according to data collected earlier this month by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). About 7,200 SOCOM jobs have been opened up to women.
h/t: Allen West
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This post originally appeared on Western Journalism – Equipping You With The Truth
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/marine-corps-just-finished-research-to-lower-standards-for-women-to-join-officer-program/
