{"id":68448,"date":"2016-10-15T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68448"},"modified":"2016-10-15T19:38:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T23:38:25","slug":"haring-marines-requirements-for-infantry-officers-are-unrealistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68448","title":{"rendered":"Haring; Marines’ requirements for infantry officers are unrealistic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ellen Haring writes in the pages of the Marine Corps Times<\/a> about how, in her opinion, the Marine Corps’ Infantry standards for officers are not realistic. You know, based on her experience as a litigant<\/a> when she sued the Army to make her an infantry officer.<\/p>\n

During the break, I asked one of the Marine representatives how often Marines actually carry 152 pounds that distance and he said \u201cinfrequently .\u201d I was still curious, so I polled a few Marine infantry officers to find out how often they had carried loads of 95 to 152 pounds during their deployments. I was a bit surprised by the responses because I thought the requirement might at least come close to some operational example. However, one infantry officer with two combat deployments, one as a weapons company commander said, \u201cI’m trying to imagine the type of fighting and tactical task that requires you to move around administratively in an AO with 150-plus pounds on your back\u2026 Nothing is impossible, but trying to come up with a situation, mission and METT-T where this would be required is\u2026 a unicorn in my opinion.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From what I can tell about Haring’s career, she has done a very good job of avoiding deployments to the war against terrorists. She sued the Army when they decided that she shouldn’t be on a Female Engagement Team probably because of her inexperience leading troops. Her only experience with combat seems to be the one time she watched Audie Murphy<\/a> in his auto-biographical movie “To Hell and Back”. So she asks some people at a conference for their input, you know, because she has no personal experience.<\/p>\n

The only reason that she has a problem with the 152-pound ruck is because it makes it hard for women to pass the course. There are men who can’t meet the standard either, and they’re booted from the course. <\/p>\n

The Marine Corps Times is being disingenuous, though, when they call her “an Army colonel” because she’s really just a social justice warrior who wants women killed in equal numbers as men in combat. As long as she’s not included on those casualty lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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