Navyfail

[houndawg]

Sp/4s don't get back to 3rd lieutenants they've already gotten to.

Bus is about to drop me off in DC so I can't keep crushing you all morning. Enjoy your day, brush up on your talking points, and get back to me.

Btw, I was an NCO before I went to OCS, so the enlisted street cred angle won't work for you. Out.

Brown Nose.

[AZGrizFan]

Not sure what your criteria is for "mental titan", but we had plenty of Ivy League grads as Marine officers. Even though I could only afford the in-state public option, my SAT and GMAT were upper 90 percentile.

I understand your attempts at humor, over and over and over, but they're tired. I'll pass on Army jokes, because my dad served honorably as a soldier in actual combat in Vietnam, unlike the latrine duty you knocked out in Peoria.

You're talking to a dude who practically fought in Vietnam. He's an almost Rambo.

He'll nearly kick your ass.

[BDKJMU]

Speaking of the Marines, saw this in the news today:

"(CNN)The only female officer enrolled in the Marine Corps' Infantry Officer's Course has dropped out after failing to complete two conditioning hikes last month, according to the Marine Corps' Training and Education Command.

"At this time, there are no female officers enrolled or slated to attend (the Infantry Officer's Course)," Marine spokesman Capt. Joshua Pena told CNN.

He added that 33 additional officers have been dropped from the course out of a starting class comprising 97 officers. The course started on July 6 and is scheduled to finish on September 20.

This was the female officer's second attempt at passing the course. She will now be given another specialization for her career as an officer in the Marines.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced the opening of all combat roles to women back in December, but as of yet no female Marine has passed the Infantry Officer's Course.

In January, then-head of Southern Command, Marine Gen. John Kelly, cast doubt on whether many women would be able to enter the infantry if current standards were upheld.

"If we don't change standards, it will be very, very difficult to have any numbers -- any real numbers come into the infantry," Kelly told reporters at the Pentagon.

But the deputy commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. John "Jay" Paxton Jr., espoused a more optimistic view.
"I think the Marines who happen to be women, who are going into those units, are committed to live up to that standard and contribute to unit efficiency and unit success," Paxton said in an interview with the Marine Corps Times published Monday.

The US Army fielded its first female infantry officer in April."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/politics/ ... index.html

So how long until the Marines lower their standards so women can pass the course?

[93henfan]

Why are you criticizing the one service that still has standards, such as segregated basic training, BDK?

Rest assured that if the Marine Corps ever lowers standards, it won't be coming from an internal mandate.

Marine Corps standards are tough. My OCS platoon only graduated 32% of the starters. We dropped a few more at TBS. Women dropped at a higher rate, mostly due to stress fractures in the legs. Some just broke down generally to where they couldn't complete required physical training events. This was of course well before they let women dabble in the IOC. I will say that the women who did make it through when I did were some tough bitches and worthy of the EGA.

[93henfan]

Also, if you want me to expound on what is involved in a conditioning hike at Quantico, I'd be glad to. It ain't a walk in the park.

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

Its not like hiking in the mountains around Butte either.

[CID1990]

It won't be long before the Corps is forced to change the standards. Hillary will win, Mabry will stay SecNav (or she'll put an even worse social justice warrior in there) and then they'll fire generals until they get one that will be happy to "fix" the Marines in return for a star or two.

It is as good as done.

[BDKJMU]

Why are you criticizing the one service that still has standards, such as segregated basic training, BDK?

Rest assured that if the Marine Corps ever lowers standards, it won't be coming from an internal mandate.

Marine Corps standards are tough. My OCS platoon only graduated 32% of the starters. We dropped a few more at TBS. Women dropped at a higher rate, mostly due to stress fractures in the legs. Some just broke down generally to where they couldn't complete required physical training events. This was of course well before they let women dabble in the IOC. I will say that the women who did make it through when I did were some tough bitches and worthy of the EGA.

I'm not. Kudos to the Marines for not yet lowering their standsrds. I was sarcastically asking how long it would be until they did, as I am afraid they will be forced to, as Cid suggested, with the liberal social experimentation warriors in charge of the military..