Women in the Infantry. That's what the "discipline" crackdown is all about.

About to take on new meaning in Infantry units....

Marine Corps Times is running an article talking about a new series of actions that the Commandant is ordering SUPPOSEDLY to get Marines back on the straight and narrow.

Read the article here.

I have not commented on it before, because I wanted to see what the reaction was from other Bloggers and Defense Writers.

Suffice it to say they don't know what they're talking about.

This is a preemptive strike, to sanitize the barracks for females to become part of Infantry units.

SNCO's and NCO's along with Officers making walkthroughs especially during the hours of 2000 and 0400?  No TVs or Video Games in duty rooms?  CAMERAS in the barracks areas?

They're practically yelling out that women in the infantry is GOING to cause problems.

Don't listen to their words.  Make note of their actions.  Surveys to male Marines, studies of the issue with regards to women in the Infantry, behind the scenes discussions with Commanders and exit interviews with Marines leaving the fleet tell the story.

They're scared beyond words that this will blow up in their faces.  It will too.  I can't wait to watch the cluster bomb explode.

NOTE:  Most of the reporting by the reporters covering the military missed the real issue for a couple of reasons.

*  They have knowledge of the military but no experience.  You can read any book you want, you can embed, you can talk to Soldiers or Marines everyday for a year and you'll never know the real story until you've actually lived it.
*  They are too quick to accept press releases put out by HQMC.  They assume that they're dealing with old skool Marines in the Commandant's office.  Amos is many things but he ain't that.  He'll bend over and suck down what ever liquid happens to be flowing from his civilians masters.
*  They assumed that barracks life is the same as college dorm life.  Having tasted both I can tell you its totally different.

Between personal bias leading them to believe the press release and HQMC, arrogance to think that "book knowledge" equals experience and the falsehood that college dorm experience equals military barracks life led them astray.

This is why military reporters fail so often.