It is January and I am traveling again. Not without some trepidation, since my last voyage to points beyond put me in the hospital. But this trip is back to the whining States of America, so I am hoping O.D.’ing on Krystal burgers will be safe. ( I love Krystal burgers-they just don’t love me.
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But I had to take a moment while I sit here drinking in the lounge to comment on this:
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.
WTF? Can we have a nice round of head shakes and swear words please?
Since January is usually the month I piss off feminists, I guess I should put the usual disclaimers here. I really don’t give a fuck about your ideas on diversity or how your need to live your dreams. I really don’t. I do acknowledge that the world is changing, but good God-it doesn’t need to change that much. Thanks for proving me right though, it was never about just “being like the men”.
I mean really. How the hell does it limit your so called opportunities if your title is that of Airman, Seaman, or Fireman? For 200 years, better men ( and women) than you Mr. Mabus, have worn the title with pride-and provided service to their nation without this level of whining.
And if you just think this is a politician being mis-informed, well, clearly you have not been paying attention. The agenda goes deeper than just words.
Go here and look at the slide presentation at the bottom. Then go here and look at this.
The Navy proposes to “enrich culture”. How do they do that?
Evidently it has something to do with child care.
Oh, and “increasing female accessions to 25%”
Remember those words-they get repeated a lot.
It’s not about “best qualified regardless of race, creed or gender”, evidently.
Oh and this too:”implement a plan to increase USNA and NROTC female accessions”.
And since experience has shown that these types of things increase the level of fraternization inter service marriages, more guaranteed incentivizing of such relationships through co-location policies is in order. And child care, lots of child care.
Never, ever, in all of this discussion of opening up combat opportunities for women, are the words “improving combat readiness” ever used. In external reporting such as a recent report on APM’s Marketplace, the central focus was on “improved career opportunity”. I generally like Marketplace-but that story sucked.
The Navy is betraying itself by these ideas. I don’t care if you think I am a dinosaur and whatever version of the “m” word you choose to use. The Navy is not, has never been, and can never be-a family friendly employer.
I am old enough and experienced enough to point this out. These ideas are going to blow up in the unit commander’s face. He ( or she) is being set up to fail, and he or she is powerless to do anything about it.
The whole thing has gotten insanely stupid. Thanks feminists, thanks a lot.
Thank God for Scotch and beer. Can anyone give me directions to the Las Vegas Hilton?
Gotta run to the plane. This is not the last you have heard me rant on this subject…………. Women at the Nana Plaza have more “honor, courage, and commitment” than the CNO’s women’s policy office. Yes, I said that.