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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 22 2017, @08:32PM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 23 2017, @02:21PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 23 2017, @02:21PM (#572106) Journal

    You, Sir, are ignorant. Remember Beruit City, 1978? I was there to welcome the grunts ashore. I'm a destroyer man, and we don't wait for jarheads to show us how to get ashore.

    Alright, I'll throttle the bravado down just a little bit. All of us destroyer men were scared shitless that we were facing five different armies at the same time, each jockeying for position around the city we were trapped in. Those jarheads coming ashore were the most beautiful people we had ever seen in our lives. But, still - safety of the ship? You're ignorant.

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