Female Marines Continue to FAIL This

It’s no secret of Barack Obama’s diligent social and cultural experiment of trying to remake the military in his own politically-correct image, despite the practical damage caused by doing so. For Obama, even the military is subject to the hubris of his far left ideology of social justice- under which all other truncated forms of justice fall (racial, gender, sexual, economic, etc.).

For example, Obama has significantly cut the defense budget, reduced the college tuition assistance program, repealed “Don’t ask, don’t tell”- the military ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military; he forced the Army’s color guard to march in a gay pride parade and he’s considering repealing the ban that prohibits the transgendered from serving in the military. For Obama, equality > morale.

He’s also lifted the ban that’s prevented women from serving in direct combat roles. The purely political move hasn’t materialized in the way Obama had hoped- and for reasons obvious to everyone not blinded by reality. Though the cultural elite deny inherent differences between men and women, biology tells a different story.

From the Washington Times–

The failure of two Marine Corps officers to to pass the Jan. 8 first-day Combat Endurance Test of the infantry officer course brings the tally of female dropouts to 26.

One more group of female officers will have a shot at graduation before the Marine Corps completes its integration experiment in June. The next IOC program begins in April.

Military Times reported Friday that of the current IOC class, 15 men out of a class of 118 were forced to drop the course.

And this from a first-hand account of Sage Santangelo, a second lieutenant in the US Marine Corps-

A fog of breath and sweat permeated the cold January air as I joined 104 other nervous lieutenants hauling gear to the classroom where we would receive our first instructions. With body armor, Kevlar, a rifle and a huge pack on my 5’3’’ frame, I must have looked like a child next to the buff guys assembling for Day 1 of the Marine Corps’ Infantry Officer Course.

I was one of four women in the group, bringing the number to 14 female officers who had attempted the course since it was opened to women in the fall of 2012. All the women so far had failed — all but one of them on the first day.

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But there came a point when I could not persuade my body to perform. It wasn’t a matter of will but of pure physical strength. My mind wanted more, but my muscles quivered in failure after multiple attempts. I began to shiver as I got cold. I was told I could not continue.

That night I forced every step to be normal as I dragged myself — weighed down by gear, disappointment and exhaustion — back to the barracks. It was no consolation that 28 other lieutenants, including the other three women, failed along with me or that the Infantry Officer Course commonly drops 20 to 25 percent of each class…  The [issue] matters because Marine leaders have been watching female participants like me to help them decide how to integrate women into units and positions whose primary mission is to engage in direct ground combat. The Marines have until Jan. 1, 2016 , to request any exemptions from the Pentagon directive to open all combat roles to women.

You can read the rest of Santangelo’s account here.

As is obvious, the biological makeup of men and women differs; the female failure rate is no surprise. As a rule, women aren’t as strong as men- specifically when it comes to upper body strength. There’s also the issue of mental and emotional strength and endurance, and how that differs between men and women. Of course there are exceptions to every rule, which why they’re called- exceptions.

Obviously this isn’t to say that women are incapable of bravely serving in the military, fully deserving of the honor and distinction that comes with that level of sacrifice. There are too many examples to say otherwise. But in this specific area, gender integration should be shelved- it’s an unneeded distraction in service to the god of “equality.”

Marine Sgt. Maj. Micheal P. Barrett, the senior enlisted adviser to the commandant, affirmed: “Our plan is deliberate, measured and responsible. We will not lower our standards.”

We’ll see. The Defense Department will either have to lower standards so a few women pass or they’ll have to admit their social experiment was a disaster.

Let’s hope that they admit that this wasn’t a good idea and move on.

h/t PJ Media