SOTG 310 - Destroying the World’s Finest Military

SOTG 310 - Destorying the Worlds Finest Military

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The campaign by the Comrade Barry administration to gut and destroy the United States Military from within has taken a new twist. Taking a page from the lunatic PC culture, the Secretary of the Navy is attempting to denigrate the training programs of the World’s Finest Fighting Force; the United States Marine Corps.

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From www.marinecorpstimes.com:
“The Marine Corps has been ordered to come up with a plan to make its enlisted entry-level training coed, and to make its job titles more gender-neutral following the recent move to open all military combat roles to women.

In a Jan. 1 memo to Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus requested a “detailed plan” on how the service will fully integrate its boot camp and Officer Candidate School. The plan is due Jan. 15 and will be implemented by April 1, the memo states.

“The Department of the Navy’s implementation plan must include gender integration of Marine Corps enlisted recruit training and officer candidate school,” Mabus wrote. “In this submission, identify where, if anywhere, this training is already integrated, where it is separate, and specific steps that you will take to fully integrate these trainings.”

In a second memo from Mabus to Neller on the same day, the SecNav directed the Marine Corps to conduct a full review of its military occupational specialty titles in an effort to ensure that they are gender neutral.

“As we achieve full integration of the force … this is an opportunity to update the position titles and descriptions themselves to demonstrate through this language that women are included in these MOSs,” Mabus wrote. “Please review the position titles throughout the Marine Corps and ensure that they are gender-integrated as well, removing ‘man’ from the titles and provide a report to me as soon as is practicable and no later than April 1, 2016.”

A Navy official said that the service received a similar memo pertaining to its MOS titles and descriptions. Mabus doesn’t intend to require iconic titles like “infantryman,” “rifleman” or “midshipman” to be changed, however, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“The idea is not to go in there and change the name when ‘man’ is incorporated as part of the term,” the official said. “… But when the word ‘man’ appears as a separate word … they want that name to be changed.”

Examples of some of those titles in the Marine Corps include reconnaissance man, fire support man and field artillery sensor support man. In those cases, the official said it’s possible the “man” could just be dropped from the names.

Marine officials have confirmed receipt of both letters.

Lt. Col. Eric Dent, Neller’s spokesman, said the Marine Corps is “working diligently to meet the intent of the Secretary of Defense’s policy.” The Marine Corps delivered its implementation plan to Mabus and Defense Secretary Ash Carter last month, Dent added, and it’s now being reviewed by a Defense Department working group.

Each of the military services was required to present that plan by Jan. 1. The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps’ plans were to include “timelines for integrating newly opened occupations and positions using their existing recruiting, accession, training, and assignment procedures,” according to a Defense Department memo.

Since Mabus’ memo on integrating boot camp wasn’t sent until after that deadline, a Marine official said the Corps’ plan didn’t include details on changing its entry-level training. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity called Mabus’ 15-day deadline to come up with a plan to integrate Marine boot camp “an aggressive timeframe.”

“It requires a look at … how much personnel to bring, how many drill instructors to bring, the leadership and support cadre that comes along with that,” the Marine said. “The barracks in San Diego are H-shaped, for example, so you can see everything that’s going on. If women are living in them, do you black out the windows or make an entire building that’s theirs? Do you do a floor for men and a floor for women?”

While male and female Marine officer candidates have trained together for years, the service remains the only military branch to segregate its enlisted trainees. Female recruits only attend Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, where they live and train separately from their male counterparts there.

Marine officials have long touted the benefits to this model as it allows for intense mentoring between female drill instructors and the women in their charge. But critics say it can backfire with female recruits not being held to the same physical standards as their male counterparts.

It’s not immediately clear whether the Marine Corps’ West Coast recruit depot could also open to women in coming months, but Mabus wrote that simply having Marines training on the same grounds won’t cut it.

“Co-location does not meet the requirement for gender integrated training,” he wrote.“

From www.studentofthegun.com:
“The Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, an Obama appointee with ties to the Clinton presidency has decided the time to screw with the Marine Corps is now. A January 1, 2016 memo from Mabus to Commandant of the Marine Corps Robert Neller instructed the Corps to begin “gender integration of officer and enlisted training”.

Apparently Mabus does not understand or care that the Marine Corps knows perfectly well how to train the finest fighting force on planet Earth. The United States Marine Corps does not require or desire the advice of a political appointee, particularly one from the galactic embarrassment that is the Obama Regime.

As the calendar counts down to 2017 it is all to obvious to anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear that Comrade Barry and his myriad minions are going to do everything possible to destroy the foundation of the United States of America. The scorched earth policy now seems to include the Marine Corps.

Below is my letter, verbatim, to Mx. Mabus. If you love this country and wish to see it returned to its former glory, please, at very least let this political hack know how you feel. Stand up for the Corps! They have been there for you for 240 years.

Mr. Secretary, (or should I use a gender-neutral title)
I became a United States Marine in 1987, Parris Island Class 1054-87, am a decorated combat veteran and twice Honorably Discharged.

Having just read of your memorandum issued to the Marine Corps regarding “gender neutral” titles and integrated sex training, I am obligated to tell you what a terrible idea that is.

The Marine Corps has been the most ferocious and effective fighting organization on planet Earth for 240 years because they know how to train men. They understand what it takes to create the fighting force needed to protect the United States of America, any time, any where. They have proven this time and again for two centuries. The nation calls, the Marines respond.

LEAVE the Marine Corps alone!

They know what they are doing and they do not need interference from outsiders. They do not need the assistance of political appointees nor the counsel of the PC gender-neutral crowd.

Given the fact that the Marine Corps has been so successful in training and preparing men to defend this nation and that it is obvious for all to see, I can only assume that your memo is designed to hinder the Corps, denigrate their ability to properly prepare men for the gravest extreme and weaken them as a whole. That fact speaks volumes about you sir and brings shame upon you and the once proud tradition of the United States Naval Service.

With any respect that you feel you deserve,
Paul G. Markel

*RESPECT is EARNED based upon performance, not given based on title.
Contact the Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus
Email: [email protected]
Office of the Secretary of the Navy
1000 Navy Pentagon, Room 4D652
Washington, DC 20350“

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