First Three Female Infantry Marines Join Camp Lejeune Battalion

By Tactical-Life

It was an historic moment for the Marine Corps last Thursday as the first three female infantry Marines officially joined their unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

According to the Marine Corps Times, the three women will serve as a rifleman, machine gunner and mortar Marine respectively in 1st Battalion, 8th Marines. All three graduated from the Marine Corps School of Infantry while participating in the Corps’ gender integration study.

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The move comes after Defense Secretary Ash Carter shot down a request from the Corps that women be kept out of combat roles after the aforementioned gender integration study found that teams consisting of both men and women don’t perform at the same level as all-male teams, the Times said.

Thus, the Corps went back to the drawing board and came up with a plan to integrate women into MOS (Military Occupational Specialties) that had previously only been available to men. Carter approved the plan in March of last year, and now here we are.

But it’s not entirely clear that gender integration will continue under the incoming presidential administration. As the Times reports, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life