I Remember When Marines Were Brave
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 3 months ago
Glenn Reynolds posted this on the U.S. Marine Corps.
Marines Cancel Military Strategy Training Because the Instructor is a Christian.
The USMC scheduled an annual training for military lawyers earlier this month, at which the Battle of Gettysburg would be discussed. The instructor for one portion of that training was supposed to be Jay Lorenzen, an Air Force veteran who taught for 10 years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Lorenzen’s biography, provided to the military lawyers in advance of the training, included references to Christianity, including his affiliation with Campus Crusade for Christ, now known as Cru, and a couple of religious-themed courses he teaches in his spare time. Several of those lawyers complained to Mikey Weinstein, who heads up a secular, anti-Christian group called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, that Lorenzen was going to teach about religion.
That allegation was false. It didn’t matter.
Says Glenn, “I remember when Marines were brave.”
How shameful and humiliating. There is also this bit of nervous Nelly hand-wringing and self-righteous unction over the social acceptability of their practices.
Nearly 300 female Marines have moved into combat-arms jobs that were, up until less than five years ago, previously open only to men. But only one female officer has led a Marine infantry platoon so far.
Now, the Marine Corps is calling on female lieutenants and captains to consider making a lateral move into the infantry officer military occupational specialty. The decision would require women to attempt the arduous Infantry Officer Course, which prepares Marines to lead grunts in combat.
Two female Marines have passed the course so far. Women have been allowed to attempt it since 2012.
The Marine Corps put out a service-wide message this week soliciting female company-grade officers to volunteer to go infantry. The Infantry Officer Course is typically open to second lieutenants just out of The Basic School.
The push aligns with a priority Commandant Gen. David Berger set in February to get more women leading grunt units. Berger told Military.com earlier this year that he’s not only open to extending the opportunity to first lieutenants and captains, but also women who left active duty before the restrictions blocking them from serving in combat jobs were lifted.
Yes, let’s push this as hard as we can so we can see more women with broken pelvises, torn cartilage and dysfunctional lower extremities.
The Marine Corps Commandant, General David H. Berger, is a loser and an awful man. He is unfit for duty.
With this kind of leadership, they deserve to become redundant to the army.
The entire government is mostly insane at this point. So why not the Marines as well? Late stage empire much.
I have 3 family members who served in the Marines..one said “When the Corps becomes pussified, it is over.”
And it gets worse..
US Naval Academy grants Satanists ‘study space’
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/satanism-at-the-us-naval-academy/
BO fired all of the fighting generals and put in the political hacks. President Trump needs
to immediately reverse that abomination even if he has to pull the fighters out of retirement.
Who is the commander in chief?
You’ve been had.
“Who is the commander in chief?
You’ve been had.” – Fred
This.
@ Herschel Re: “Yes, let’s push this as hard as we can so we can see more women with broken pelvises, torn cartilage and dysfunctional lower extremities.” The anatomical reasons for the combat arms exclusion are just the tip of the proverbial ice-berg, but they are important none-the-less. The past several decades of relentless “You go girl!” propaganda notwithstanding, the biological reality is that even elite female athletes have a hard time competing with ordinary, run of the mill male ones of comparable age. A couple of decades ago, the U.S. Women’s Olympic Soccer Team won gold and attained some notoriety. Some of the players, Mia Hamm for example, enjoyed a brief moment in the public limelight as celebrities, making the “Tonight Show” and the usual celeb stops. What folks forget is that the gold-medal winning women’s soccer team got their clocks cleaned in a pick-up game against a scratch team of local high-school and community college male soccer players. Just regular guys off the street. I’ve been involved in training, teaching and participating in the martial arts for some twenty years spread across a number of styles. I have attained mid-level black-belt rank in the Korean martial art of hapkido, which is an extremely effective system – so much so that members of the South Korean Presidential security detail are required to be proficient in it. Over the years, our organization has had many good female students, ranging from teenagers to moms training with their kids. We bend over backwards to make female students feel welcome, and do our best to create a welcoming environment. However, we will not dilute our content, nor will we compromise our standards. In order for martial arts training to be useful in the real world, it must at times be difficult, demanding and arduous – because that is what force-on-force confrontations so often are. If you go to pieces under pressure, a vicious hardened street criminal isn’t going to hand you a box of tissues and ask if you need a time out. Bluntly, having been a fed for years a steady diet of “You go girl!” propaganda by the media-entertainment complex, female students often come into the program with unreasonable expectations regarding how the martial arts and hand-to-hand fighting will be. Many – most – are stunned by the disparity in size, strength, speed and aggressiveness between the guys and the gals. The wake-up call only gets worse when they are asked to grapple, throw and use other methods on males who are often significantly larger, heavier and stronger than they are. The guys welcome it when the training becomes more-realistic. However, it frightens many of the female students. An important watershed in training is reaching mid-level rank where weapons are introduced, i.e., gun and knife defense. Realistic rubber handguns and knives are used in place of the real items, but even these have proved to be too much for some of our younger female students. One high-school sophomore began to cry… Read more »