How are they going to make it work???

How is the Marine Corps going to get women into Combat Arms...by there very essence physical in nature....while keeping Marine Corps Infantry, Tanks, Artillery, AAVs, Engineers etc hardcore?

I have no idea.

Take the Combat Physical Fitness Test.

If they're serious about standards being equal then that is going away.

What about the tried and true PT Test?

No more flex arm hangs for you women.  Now get your ass up their and do pull ups.  Or do we water it down and do push ups?  But wait.  Men have more upper body strength than women so how do you come up with a gender neutral test????


You go Air Force or Navy and have swim tests?

Wow.

No offense to those services but thats just not the Marine way.

This is a bad idea but the powers that be...and that ranges from pussified bloggers that are politically correct all the way up to the SgtMajor of the Marine Corps over to Generals that have been in combat (ground combat) like Mattis.

They all know that this is a feel good initiative that will weaken our combat power but they won't fight it because they've lost their integrity in the effort to get pats on the back at parties in New York or DC.

I don't think many of these future female officers have any idea of the kind of stuff they're going to run into --- both stateside and down range.  God help the females that find themselves assigned to these units.  They better have the strength of Xena, better run like the wind and can hump a base plate.  Of course they'll be coddled which will breed more resentment, but Battalion Commanders will be under the gun to make it work.

I'm sure some lesbian feminist will cheer when the first female is assigned to an infantry unit.  Too bad they won't be the ones going through the hell.  No.  They'll just send someone elses daughter into the meat grinder that is Marine Corps Combat Arms.

PS.

I want video of mixed sex martial arts training.  After all we're about to send women into combat against men so it makes sense that they'll be caught in close combat situations and might have to go hands on.  So show me a fight between a five foot five inch tall female going head to head against a six two two hundred pound rage factory.  If the Commandant and his cronies are right she should be able to hold her own right?  Yeah its bullshit but he's the one feeding it to you not me.

I couldn't find an image for an upside down Marine Corps flag but this one will do.  Both the Country and the Corps is in distress.  A start to fix both organizations will be to replace the current leadership.

Its official. Australia is jacked up.

Ok Devils...those of you that get sent to the paradise down under, now you have another worry.  If Salt Water Crocs were just decorations for your K-Bar....if the 19 different varieties of poisionous snakes were just living belts just waiting for you to skin them...then how about this.


THE SPIDERS IN AUSTRALIA EAT SNAKES!!!!

Yeah.

That's right.

The Spiders in Australia eat snakes.  Oh and no.  It didn't happen in the boonies...or outback as they call it....no.  The guy who photographed this just happened to catch the scene in his fucking back yard!

Go here for the rest of the story.

To: Huron Serenity.

To:  Huron Serenity




PS.

If you don't like my site, then don't come to my site.  You stupid, arrogant ass bitch!

Game fucking over.

Read this bullshit at Marine Times.

The Marine Corps is beyond fucked.  You want the truth.  The truth is women can't stand up to the physical rigors of Infantry warfare.  This pussified Commandant and his cohorts are about to make a mockery of the Corps all to be politically correct.

This is fucked up.

h/t B5 which probably has a much more acceptable stance on this subject.

Sidenote:
I've been thinking this for awhile now and this confirms it.

We're seeing the poorest leadership in the history of the Marine Corps.  AMOS is a definite no-go.  I just wish he had daughters to stuff in a foxhole with a male Marine.  I wish he had daughters that HE was pushing to join the Infantry.  Oh and our SgtMaj of the Marine Corps is suddenly no where to be found or heard???  Interesting.

I hope a Republican is elected in November and I hope he sacks the entire sorry group.  Fuck'em all.

Mythical Fleet. New gear for Boat Company.

All weather capability.

Able to transport 24 Marines.

Tested from the Arctic to the jungles in Brazil.  The Watercat 12 is a winner. 

Small Boats doesn't get more business because it conduct operations the same way everyone else does.  It even has the same equipment.

Don't get me wrong.  The Marines shouldn't buy the Watercat because it will give them a "new" toy but because it will expand the reach of the Boat Company...make them competitive with rotary winged aviation in many scenarios and set the stage for operations in the Pacific.

4th Tanks

Marines from 4th Tank Division, Twentynine Palms, Calif., clean their M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, April 10 after a day of training during Exercise Africa Lion 2012. AL-12 is a U.S. African Command-sponsored, Marine Forces Africa-led exercise involving various types of training including command post, live-fire and maneuvering, peace keeping operations, an intelligence capacity building seminar, aerial refueling/low-level flight training, as well as medical and dental assistance projects. The annual exercise is designed to improve interoperability and mutual understanding of each nation's military tactics, techniques and procedures.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tyler Main)

Marines from 4th Tank Battalion, Twentynine Palms, Calif., roll down a dirt road on their M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank during a day of training at Exercise African Lion 2012, April 13. AL-12 is a U.S. African Command-sponsored, Marine Forces Africa-led exercise involving various types of training including command post, live-fire and maneuvering, peace keeping operations, an intelligence capacity building seminar, aerial refueling/low-level flight training, as well as medical and dental assistance projects. The annual exercise is designed to improve interoperability and mutual understanding of each nation's military tactics, techniques and procedures.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Tyler Main)

The dirty little secret.

This is the side of the war that they don't want you to see.

Why no B-1R experiment???

Boeing proposed it.

Supposedly the USAF wasn't interested.

Which leads to the question.  Why not?  Every scenario for combat in the Pacific shows an outnumbered allied air force being overwhelmed.  A couple dozen missile trucks would seem ideal.

Instead of a new bomber perhaps we should find new ways of using the tools that we already have.  At the very least conduct an experiment at Red Flag with one or two of them.