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from the should-have-drafted-Demi-Moore dept.
The U.S. Marine Corps will soon have its first female infantry officer. The unnamed lieutenant is expected to lead an infantry platoon of about 40 marines:
The Marine Corps is set to have its first female infantry officer, a milestone in its nearly 250-year-long history.
The lieutenant is scheduled to graduate with her all-male peers on Monday after she completed all of the graduation requirements in the service's grueling 13-week Infantry Officer Course, the Corps said. Her completion of the course was first reported by The Washington Post. The officer's name was not made public.
The course was opened to women in 2012, and on an experimental basis. More than 30 women attempted it, but when none passed, the course was once again closed to females in the spring of 2015. After the Pentagon opened all military jobs to women, four additional women tried the course without success.
Also at The Hill.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @06:13AM (4 children)
Turtle's head?
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:56AM (3 children)
Of the many things Soylentils are blissfully ignorant of, one is the nautical life. Some have tried to remedy this by quoting Herman Melville. But the basic terminology is still lacking.
Head. On a ship, a head is more properly a capstan head. This is the ratcheting spindle that usually coils a rode (((anchor line, for you landlubbers) or chain to hoist an anchor. Now, point being, the "heads", or aforementioned winches, are usually situated at or near the bow of the vessel ("front", again for you landlubbers). In most sailing, of large ships as well a small, a downwind course is more favorable, less pounding, in the off quarter better speed, et cetera. But the important thing, is that sailors used to relieve themselves where the anchor leads lead out, or at the heads. Thus the origin of the naval term for a "facility". But, as in most things, the cap'n's quarters were aft, or upwind from the heads on most headings, much like the West End of London was for the lower classes, because of the prevailing winds that put it downwind.
Now, mind you, another sailing author is to be paid attention to. Kipling said:
Marines! Harumfrodite Marines that could kick jmorriss' but from here to Timbucktoo!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Saturday September 23 2017, @10:02AM (2 children)
Or was it the East End?
Which way does the wind blow in London?
More importantly, link for the Kipling: http://www.bartleby.com/364/229.html [bartleby.com]
I prefer Conrad or Melville to Kipling, but when it comes to the Heart of Darkness that Was British Imperialism, does it really matter what side you were on? (Wait for it: sarcastic remark- - - not meant to be taken literally---jmorris is still a dick. )
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @02:38PM (1 child)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday September 23 2017, @06:30PM
Are you seriously suggesting jmorris is not a dick? After all, he did post this:
While jmorris is not the cause of all the ills of the world, or even all the evils of the alt-wrong, he does own this. Clearly he is not normal.