Mabus scurries to make his SJW mark on the Marines

You’ve probably heard that Ray Mabus, the Secretary of the Navy, has charged the Marine Corps to focus on the integration of women into combat jobs and their priority this Winter is to change the names of some of their military occupational specialties in order to “gender integrate” job titles because that’s what’s important. Here’s his letter in that regard. Mabus addresses that in the last paragraph of the first page;

So I guess “reconnaissance man” will be replaced by “reconnaissance being” or something similar. Thanks to Mick for sending us the letter.

Meanwhile, Marine General John Kelly is focused on the important stuff. He doesn’t believe that the social justice warriors, like Mabus, will keep their promise to leave the standard for training alone, according to US News;

“They’re saying we are not going to change any standards,” Kelly told reporters at the Pentagon. “There will be great pressure, whether it’s 12 months from now, four years from now, because the question will be asked whether we’ve let women into these other roles, why aren’t they staying in those other roles? Why aren’t they advancing as infantry people?”

Kelly, who has been a Marine for 45 years and served three tours in Iraq, said the sole basis for change in the military should be whether the change will make units more lethal.

“If the answer to that is no, clearly don’t do it. If the answer to that is, it shouldn’t hurt, I would suggest that we shouldn’t do it, because it might hurt,” Kelly said.

Hey, that sounds familiar – where have I read that before? Oh, yeah, that’s hat I’ve been writing in these pages for years. the Marines, you might remember, led the other services in determining whether integration would work and they had their concerns about the whole plan. Secretary Mabus dismissed the findings of their experiments, you know, based on his years of experience (actually, he has two years of service as a “surface warfare officer” aboard the USS Little Rock while it was mostly in dry dock at Boston Naval Shipyard).

I’ve also read about how the Marines are supposed to integrate women into basic training. The Marines are the only service that has separate training for men and women, which makes sense to me. they should be training and learning to be Marines without all of the ancillary BS that would go along with the integration process. Like the current discussion of how the “H”-shaped buildings don’t give women privacy, because, for the same reason they can’t be bothered to lower the toilet seat, they can’t pull the window-blinds closed either.

So how does all of the social justice BS make the Marine Corps more lethal, Secretary Mabus? I’ve been waiting for an answer to that question for about five years now.

Category: Marine Corps