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Home Front: Culture Wars
Fired Female Marine Commander Asks Congress For Support
2015-07-21
[Daily Caller] A female commander is heading to Congress to make the case that she was unjustly removed for trying to motivate her all-female battalion into matching male physical fitness standards.

Both sides have different stories. According to Marine Corps officials, Marine Lt. Col. Kate Germano was removed on June 30 because of poor leadership, which included hostile and unprofessional behavior, The Hill reports.

Last June, Germano took command of the 4th Recruit Training Battalion on Parris Island in South Carolina and proceeded to work hard at improving the marksmanship of female recruits, as the failure rate for women was about three times as a high as men at the rifle range. Within a year's time, the rate of passage for females taking the initial rifle qualification test jumped to 90 percent--about the same rate as men.
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Ah yes, FORT APACHE'S HENRY FONDA REMEMBERS NOT-AN-ARMY-KAYDET GERMANO.

Personally, I think its because she didn't look as sexy slinky good as Valerie Plame in BDUS while searching for Saddam's Nukes in Iraq.

I could cough *** cough *** cough say somethings else, but won't.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-07-21 23:02  

#10  Ok, I have tried to be nice on these threads but I am done.

One. LTC Germano is all right by me. And if I met her I would shake her hand. She is the kind of officer I respect and admire.

Two. As a mathematician, referencing the Lanchester 1 & 1/2 power law, I am a big believer in getting there firstest with the mostest. So, if a female Marine is able to accomplish 80% of a male Marine's ability, but we can get 20% more Marines on point, then we--America--are better off.

Three. 90% of the time our military is in garrison. So it doesn't matter if their fighting force is at its highest edge. God knows how many General officers Lincoln had to cashier, before he succeeded. Yet Bush failed for years with what he had. NONE of which, for Lincoln or Bush, were women. So I really tire of routine tearing down of female officers. They are OK. And if you've met them you know.

Four. America is an idea taken up by citizens, men and women, who want to perpetuate and defend it. Let them.
Posted by: rammer   2015-07-21 21:06  

#9  The sad thing is if they just passed 'em through at the lower standards the same folks would raise hell when a bloodbath resulted because they weren't up to Marine standards.

They need to keep the standards of what it means to be a combat Marine and if ladies want to be Marines and can't cut the physical required for combat they can work in supporting roles or as pilots or something with different physical requirements.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-07-21 16:11  

#8  sadly, when col germano told the truth to the female trainees about the need to achieve high physical standards, she made some trainees unhappy

Posted by: lord garth   2015-07-21 15:17  

#7  same-sex-besotted

Sorry. That was beneath the dignity of the Burg. Don't know why I pick on teh gay, when I've never had any particular beef with gay qua (heh, so gmmmmmph!) gay. Stuck up for the teased kids in school and all that. Genetic? Legacy of the limerick's dark, brutal past? Anyhoo, s/same-sex/progress. Thank you for listening.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-07-21 15:11  

#6  JFM, you are right but I'd rather they tried than just accept lower standards that they can all make.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2015-07-21 14:31  

#5  Let Uncle Bam's new robot pilots
Be wymyn, trangendered, but pirates,
So swotters take orders
From new improved boarders
And same-sex-besotted pot violets.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-07-21 13:52  

#4  @Procopius. More prosaically when you have to change a truck tire or a tank track link.
Posted by: JFM   2015-07-21 11:38  

#3  The Dr. Ben Carson of the Marine Corps.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-07-21 10:04  

#2  Heck, when the auto loader malfunctions and you have to ram the 120mm round by hand into the tank gun's breach, let alone humping 155mm rounds to the artillery piece to keep up the necessary rate of fire to suppress a wave attack.

Bulge '44, Tet '68, there are no clerks, cooks, or mechanics, everyone is an infantryman.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-07-21 09:51  

#1  Male physical standards? Simply not possible. Pound for pound we have more muscle (ie we can carry that Ma Deuce where it will be needed and they can't, can climb Pointe du Hoc and they can't), bigger hearts, biiger lunfgs and our blood carri more oxigen per liter (ie we can keep running at a faster pace well after they have to stop), and greater leaps ie we can jump over that obstacle when being forced to clim or go ariund it means death.

There are women, eg a 100m World Champion who in one area can best a Marine Standards men but none who can dpo all the things I mentionned. That is pphysiologically impossible.

Women in combat roiles leads to both them and their male comrades being killed and allowing enemies to survive thus leading to further casualties.

Now the higher the American losses the more likely that just like in Vietnam, American public tires of the war against islamo-fascism and concedes defeat. Pehaps that is the goal of the whole scheme.
Posted by: JFM   2015-07-21 05:27  

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