re: Active Marines - Have Women in the Infantry Had a Negative Impact on the USMC?

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This. I spent 10 years in the Marine Corps infantry (1/8, 1/2, and 2/6), and I agree that allowing women into combat arms sacrifices readiness for political correctness. MCRD and SOI on the west coast. It would be impossible for a female to keep up carrying the same combat loads their male counterparts are carrying. Simply put, any WM in a combat unit would be a liability, not an asset.

On a side note, I was on the first LHA that allowed women naval enlisted to deploy with us. It was a freaking goat rope, as expected. Two out of the four were sent home, pregnant. One of the others was injured somehow. Completely useless. I’d hate to see how bad it’s gotten today.

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3/2 here 2000-2004 0 women in the grunt units at that time. I was a POG and would talk to other Marines about women in their units. Every single Marine that I asked said they HATED it. Drama, banging higher ups to get out of stuff or promoted, along with a lot of other things. But hey equality and all that