Marines could be ending longtime policy of separating male, female recruits during boot camp
The only service branch of the U.S. armed forces that separates its male and female recruits during boot camp could be ditching that practice as soon as next year.
Lt. Gen. David Berger, the general nominated to lead the Marine Corps, made the announcement Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing.
"I talked to the commandant this morning about it and... I said, 'We have to look at this for perhaps next year,' and he said, 'Absolutely,'" Berger said, according to Military.com. "I think it's a discussion that he and I will have -- and the Marine Corps will have."
Mixing the training Battalions is OK as long as living quarters are separate. Trainees/recruits have enough issues and problems off schedule they don't need more.
Lt. Gen. David Berger, the general nominated to lead the Marine Corps, made the announcement Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing.
"I talked to the commandant this morning about it and... I said, 'We have to look at this for perhaps next year,' and he said, 'Absolutely,'" Berger said, according to Military.com. "I think it's a discussion that he and I will have -- and the Marine Corps will have."
Mixing the training Battalions is OK as long as living quarters are separate. Trainees/recruits have enough issues and problems off schedule they don't need more.
As far as actually serinvg in the same units on the front lines I would say no way. Of course theis a very sexist POV but I cannot help it. My father was in the Army 22 years (pre WW II anthrough Loreas and after. His opinion of women in combat was straight and to the point "Hell NO!!!". I have the same general feeling.
Seemed the woman officer was right up to task but her underlings were not. Although what happened to her could have happened to a male soldier as well.