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Marines Are Getting Pressured To Lower Standards For Women, Because Women Can't Pass Their Infantry Officer Course
According to this, "two female Marine officers who volunteered to attempt the Corps' challenging Infantry Officer Course did not precede beyond the first day of the course."
This makes 29 attempts and 29 fails by women for that course.
One female officer has tried to do it more than once. And she, too, failed. Only four female officers have made it past day one of the "grueling evaluation known as the Combat Endurance Test, or CET." And listen - it's not like dudes don't fail, either. They do. Fifteen male officers didn't make it. "Of the 118 officers who began the course, 101" made it to the second day. In a nutshell, it's freaking HARD. Like, REALLY HARD.
It's just obviously harder for the chicks. A LOT harder. (I'm going on data here.)
Back in 2014, one of the women who failed the course, Second Lt. Sage Santangelo, provided her theories as to why so many women fail. She attributed it to "inferior training that women marines receive compared to men, rather than an inherent weakness in women." Additionally, she said that women face a "double standard during their entire time in the Marine Corps."
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My Thoughts:
Although I’m for women having equal availability to go into any endeavor they want, it’s a genetic fact that there are some areas where women can’t compete with men, -IE- upper body strength.
To allow these overall standards to be modified for them is not good for the overall makeup of the fighting unit. If they can’t do the very same thing a man has to do, then what’s going to happen when they’re in a fire fight and the man gets wounded and it’s up to the woman to put him on her back and carry him a few hundred yards out of the combat zone to safety?
I’m not diminishing a woman’s desire to fulfill her dreams, but it’s just a fact that they for the most part aren’t strong enough to pull their own weight in a combat situation.
According to this, "two female Marine officers who volunteered to attempt the Corps' challenging Infantry Officer Course did not precede beyond the first day of the course."
This makes 29 attempts and 29 fails by women for that course.
One female officer has tried to do it more than once. And she, too, failed. Only four female officers have made it past day one of the "grueling evaluation known as the Combat Endurance Test, or CET." And listen - it's not like dudes don't fail, either. They do. Fifteen male officers didn't make it. "Of the 118 officers who began the course, 101" made it to the second day. In a nutshell, it's freaking HARD. Like, REALLY HARD.
It's just obviously harder for the chicks. A LOT harder. (I'm going on data here.)
Back in 2014, one of the women who failed the course, Second Lt. Sage Santangelo, provided her theories as to why so many women fail. She attributed it to "inferior training that women marines receive compared to men, rather than an inherent weakness in women." Additionally, she said that women face a "double standard during their entire time in the Marine Corps."
Read More: Link Removed
My Thoughts:
Although I’m for women having equal availability to go into any endeavor they want, it’s a genetic fact that there are some areas where women can’t compete with men, -IE- upper body strength.
To allow these overall standards to be modified for them is not good for the overall makeup of the fighting unit. If they can’t do the very same thing a man has to do, then what’s going to happen when they’re in a fire fight and the man gets wounded and it’s up to the woman to put him on her back and carry him a few hundred yards out of the combat zone to safety?
I’m not diminishing a woman’s desire to fulfill her dreams, but it’s just a fact that they for the most part aren’t strong enough to pull their own weight in a combat situation.
