What percentage of women fail marine basic training? And what happens after that?
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I would imagine it's the same percentage as men who don't make it through. After that, you have to find something else to do.
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for starters, pipsy, i don't mean to single your answer out, but unless your going through marine boot camp, it's a joke.  being in the army right now, they are slacking now more than ever.  relaxing the regs on height and weight for startes.  make basic easier.  as far as women being in combat mos's, they can't. it's against the regs.  the closest they can come to being in a combat mos is being a medic and earning the combat medic badge.  however, the war in iraq is not a tradional war.  women are being faced with the chance of being in a firefight everytime they leave the wire in iraq.  anyone there faces the possiblity of killing or being killed.  should the draft ever come around, it is out sheer necessity to get boots on ground to fight the enemy head on.  meaning to be infantry.  personally, i don't my life to depend on how a female reacts to her period.  if she's cramping, she won't notice the sniper in the tree that kills 6 or 10 people.  i don't want my life to depend whether or not jessica lynch lays down her rifle sits down and cries because she got lost.  if the draft were to be flawless and put the men on the front lines to protect and fight, and put the women in combat support, then great make them register.  but just as soon as they do you'll have jackies registering as jacks and chrissies registering as chris and so on.  and no one would be the wiser til they got in country.  fix the system and then we'll talk, but until then no.
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I don't know if there is an actual rule to that, but they way they make the deployment schedules, it's unlikely to go twice in a row.  In the USMC, it's been 7 months there before the new guys show up.  They stay for seven months.  It's possible that as soon as you return, you'll start training to go back as the new guys replacements.  But that is what I am trying to do, and I am having a difficult time being put on a deployment.  There are more Marines willing to go than slots available.  Many Marines have gotten to go/had to go three times in one enlistment.  I've only gotten there once.  I've got a year left though.  Hopefully I'll make it back again.
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Yes they do. Women have as much right to serve their country as men do. I've worked in all male units too and enjoyed it but I've also worked in mixed units and enjoyed that also. Sounds, like you and your men have a problem and its not women. If women can work with men but men can't work with women.... who really has the problem. I've seen a lot of female soldiers who easily pulled their weight. Maybe Army females are just better than Navy females? I've watched female soldiers in combat and they are just a brave as the male soldiers. When rounds are incoming who cares about PC. I guess you navy guys have a lot more time to think about it than the Army.
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Yes women get sent to Iraq. 58 female military have been killed there.\n\nIf you want to be a mechanic, why don't you join the air force and become an aircraft Mechanic and then work for an airline! You would be MUCH better paid!!
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yes, there female MNs on sea duty.  BUT( and this is the kicker) Minesweepers are going away, and not every ship has been converted to co ed berthing.  So, while you can be statioend aboard a ship, there are not as many billets available overall.
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Many military wives cheat on their husbands, especially the young ones.  Many of them aren't very independent and are built of fragile or weak constitution.  When there husband goes away, they fall apart, so they need another man.  It is pathetic, but that's the kind of woman that marines marry and the kind of woman who want want to marry marines.\n\nI'm sure that most military wives don't want to hear this, but it's true.
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The ASVAB is very simply. It's one of those tests that can only be failed if you truly want to fail it.\n\nIt's been years since I took it so I don't know if it's changed at all. Your local public library should have a study guide regarding the ASVAB
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because if we get rejected during war, we just bomb whatever rejected us.  can't do that to a woman. (yet)
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Don't know exactly. General Hams was the first female general in US Air Force and Brig. Genral Marcelite J. Harris - the first black female general. \nIn the 2004 Air Force 19.6 % of the force was female.\n*18.2 percent of the officers were women and 20 percent of the enlisted corps was women.\n* 60.2 percent of the female officers are line officers; 39.8 percent are non-line.\n*The population of women in the Air Force was 73,074.\n* Women first began entering pilot training in 1976, fighter pilot training in July 1993 and navigator training in 1977.\n*2004 there were 519 (3.8 percent) female pilots and 195 (4.1 percent) female navigators and over 600 enlisted crew members. \nHope it may help You.
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Women being in the SEALs is too specific. You should write about whether women should be allowed into comabt roles. You have plenty of examples, the best being the Isreali use of women for combat and the US use of women in Combat support roles which more and more lead to an actual combat situation. In the past, women in combat support roles rarely ever crossed the line to combat, but it is happening very frequently now in Iraq and Afganistan. It is a timely and very interesting subject.
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PCP\nPhysical Conditioning Platoon\nIs that what you are asking about?\n\n(Ignore Megan. There are tons like her. Vicariously living through her husbands accomplishments in all branches of the military.  Although it is not easy being married in the military, we know very well that she wasn't there holding his hand through boot camp.)\n\nIt is for people (recruits) who are not in adequate physical shape to complete boot camp.\nThis includes not being able to run, do sit-ups, pull-ups, or being overweight.  It takes as long as it takes sometimes.  You could be there for a while until you get back up to "par", if not, eventually you may get sent home.\n\nIt is the one place to avoid while in boot camp.  As far as what they do, a lot of damn exercise, running, rope climbing, sit-ups etc..\n\nThe term "Marine" by the way, is a proper noun, which means it should be capitalized.  How about some respect here, Megan.  My wife even knows that!
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Honestly, you are right.  The number of concessions and exceptions the military has had (and continues to have ) tomake just so females can serve is counterproductive and detrimental to the mission.  I am all for equal rights, but if you can not do the job, you should go elsewhere- the standards should not be lowered just so you make it.  The fact that female Marines I was in Iraq with (numbering 5) has an entire 30 man tent for themselves because they needed sperate billiting shows the preposterous nature of the system.  I have never met a female Marine (who are the toughest the US has got) who could perform physically as well or as long as a male Marine, or maybe more importantly, had the emotional or phychological strength to handle sometimes normal occurances.  Everyone in knows this and simply ignores or covers up for the discrepancies.  I applaud the females for their willingness to serve, but they do not and (except in rare cases) cannot equal a male in the same postion.\nGay men are a little different, though- the only problems I see logistically would be the same as females- seperate billiting and head faculities (baths/showers for you non DevilDOGs or squids) would be required, but they still could be expected to perform at the same levels physically as the other males.\n\noh, and sorry for the Jedi remarks- just kidding!`\n\nKsuccubis-  Being an able mechanic or a driver is not at all equal to the ability to endure physical and mental pain for weeks or months on end and still be counted on to complete the mission.  And PFT scores are essentially worthless in judging strength between individuals-  your ability to do pull-ups or sit -ups (your weight being the resistance) can not be measured to my ability using my weight.  and running is a great measure of endurance and cardiovascular strength, but the ability to do so with ruck and flak and kevlar under combat conditions is something all together different.  I am in no way trying to demean you or your service to the country, but emotional responses and personal investment are not the issues- combat effectiveness is.  I promise you no Male Marine could get away with the things the females do all the time- they use the full arsenal fo womanly guile to get out of the heavy lifting, barracks duty, deployments, etc- from PMS, to emotional issues, to sexual suggestiveness, with all the tears,pouting, preening, huffing and puffing that goes along with it.  It silly, wasteful and countertproductive, and has no place in the military as it should be.
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I don't know all the hard numbers but USMC Boot camp is the hardest basic training/boot camp in the US military. The Marines qualify on a longer range with the M16, not sure about the exact distance. Here are some hard facts: The Marines boot camp is the longest. You don't get any phone calls home or emails, just letters. It also has the highest attrition rate in the US military. \n\nI talked to someone on a different message board who was in the Army before switching over to the Marines and this is what he said about the services: \n\nOkay being a Marine that has switched services (you can read why in the Marine only board) I have first hand experinces with the NEW Army.\n\nI joined the Army National Gaurd for a "try one" I ended up going to OIF III with them and I will tell you that yes the Army is alot different from the 'Corps.\n\nIn the Army there are only Cpl's in "combat arm" MOS's me being Arty turned Security Forces (basically convoy escort, QRF, gate guard) I was allowed the privilage of retaing my NCO status as Cpl. The wierd thing is the Army has Spc's which are also E-4's these guys are paid the same as a Cpl but have no responsibilty as far as an NCO, being a Cpl in the Army is kinda like being a senior lance cooly, you don't get much respect you just kinda make the best of it and make people respect you through hard work, persaverince, and your Marine Corps leadership traits.\n\nThe majority of the Army doesn't understand the meaning of pride and is about instant gradifacation, awards, patches, and of course screwing around with women.\n\nThe 101st Airborne was coming in theater around the time my unit was rotating out and we shared plenty of time at the chow hall with them. We called the 101st the "hundered and worst" here they were, the pride of America's Army units "Air-Assualt" but in fact they were more like horny rabid dogs, that would steal anything they could and hit on every female on post, (not that its a bad thing to explore your options) but for a female Sgt to allow PFC's and Spc's to call her "sexy girl", and "baby doll" openly and in front of other NCO's and Soldiers and did nothing. It was appauling to say the least.\n\nI don't want to go as far as saying that the recent events that have happened in Iraq with that unit are just but i will say that the new Army's way of allowing **** bags to do as they want to keep the "numbers up" is just pathetic.\n\nThe Army is at war with itself as far as the best way to lead, train and motivate young people to go to war.\n\nThe Army belives that giving berrets and badges away to everyone will make the young troops to as they are told, however, as I said instant gradification only goes so far.\n\nI could go on and on about the faults of the New Army, but I'm not gonna bore you with the mindless *****ing.\n\nsimply put, the Army and the Marine Corps are like apples and oranges. just right now the army is rotting and the Marine Corps is not.
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Magic 8-ball says:\n\nThe odds are against it.\n\nPeople are assigned to commands based on command need and specialties. Say a ship needs a mechanic, the computer draws up a list of names, and whomever is at the top, gets shipped that way.\n\nSince there are a greater number of men in the service, the sheer odds of having a female name pop up for every position is near enough to nil that you can just say zero.\n\nI can say this: there will never be one female assigned to a combat oriented submarine!
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I was in the military for 8 plus years, I watch about 50% of the "men" and I use that word loosely cheat.  I never did, but it never failed, we would get overseas, and the first night on the beach, about 50% of the married guys were chasing women.
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Not many according to my research. That's a neat question though, you don't really think about disabled FEMALE veterans. Are you one of  them? If so then I want to thank you for serving our country and now having to pay the price for doing so. May God bless you and yours.