I asked the instructor if it was okay for LCpls to go out to bars, have a few beers and try to get laid.  He said, "No, if anyone has been drinking, it isn't consensual sex."

I also asked him if it was okay for me an my wife to split a bottle of red wine, and then have a go at it.   He said, "No, if anyone has been drinking, it isn't consensual sex."


I don't think anyone took him seriously after that.

Second battalion is best battalion.

Amen!!  Plt 2080 here! 1Jul - 30Sep 77. I can't remember if we were in D or F Co. though.

You weren't in Delta. Delta is in 1st Battalion.

2nd Bn. is Echo through Hotel, IIRC.

I don't know shit but from reading the article I surmise it was her attitude toward sexual assault that got her canned.

Sounds to me like she's exactly the kind of officer that should be running training.

Tells the truth, and keeps her Marines alive.

 
No.


Again no.




There is a time and place to come down hard.  And that time and place for officers is few and far between.  There is significantly more time to be an asshole as an NCO and SNCO.  Though that somewhat depends on the billet.  


This isn't a draft military, and you can not treat the enlisted like this was the last stop before either the poor house or jail.  Because it isn't.  This means your leadership style should reflect the current situation.  Being an asshole does not reflect the current situation.  

Draftee soldiers had more options than our current bunch.

Being as asshole is an essential tool in your tool box.

Also, if she was so good at improving marksmanship... what's with her pizza boxes?

It wasn't her job to become a "top shot", just to make sure the WMs qualified.  From what the article said she did it well.



That's a pretty significant improvement IMO.

Intro of RCOs and EREK kits in recruit training

That's not the proper caliber:



That's a .223 pen.  

Was not my experience.  In fact just the opposite.  Poor officers try to mask their lack of ability by being an asshole (but only to everyone junior to them).  Just because some great commanders were also assholes (Patton for example) doesn't make every asshole Patton.

ETA - In light of Sylvan's post, above - poor officers will be an asshole even in a good unit.  That guy will ruin that unit.  I saw that one first hand too.

I'd hit it.

Can't have "bossy" women, even in the corps apparently

Let me give you an example why you MUST have the ability to be an asshole to be an effective officer.

I got back from mid tour leave and as soon as I got back to the COP, my O6 (there were 15 of us on the COP O6 and staff.  no PSD) tells me:

"I'm relieving LTC X.  Pack your shit, take a 3X9 to Eagle Base.  Tell LTC X he is relieved and have him come back on the convoy.  You will take over."

I don't have the time to be the nice guy.  I don't have the time to explain whats going on.  I don't have the time to get buy in.  I have to change a fucked up command climate and I have to do it instantly.  I have to change lax behavior in a minute or more people are going to die."

I relieved half my subordinate commanders in 2 weeks.  NCOICs as well.  I would have fired more if I had the bench.  But I unfucked the command and not a single american under my command got so much as a purple heart while I still stacked enemy KIA like cordwood.  
Yeah.  I got lucky.  Yeah.  I had good men, generally, to work with.  Yeah.  I hated having to be the asshole.  But thats sometimes the only way to do what must be done.  My men didn't love me.  But they lived to hate me.  And thats the price of real leadership.

This chick was told to make girls into marines.  not chicks into female marines.  but fucking marines who can run, do pull ups and shoot their fucking rifles.  and maybe she was a fucking cunt doing it.

oh well.

ETA.

Forgot. One dude got a scratch and was RTD.  But he did get a purple heart.  And ARCOM V

 
That's pretty much to the book what the Air Force is currently training people. Also that you should only drink 3 drinks, with only one an hour at a maximum. People really seem to follow these expectations

Thanks for sharing that.

The Man who should have been CMC......Gen. Mattis.

So it was F then. Ha ha, F Troop!!  

And not a peep will be heard from the "Woman's Rights" groups because she is in the Military.

If she was a commie activist professor with a faked resume they'd be calling for Obama to intervene. And he would.

The new order is about weakening the United States military and making it weak before the world.....she was Borked.

Well, the CI is certainly an interesting read, even with the redactions.



http://ec.militarytimes.com/static/pdfs/MCRD-PI-Inv_Redacted.pdf

"DEOMI". Fuck that!

I knew an E5 that became an E4 for attempting that.

They redacted in whole all of the comments from the DEOMI survey, which are about the only useful part of the survey.



 

USNI Article

Annnnd a bump too, I guess.

From LtCol Germano's unpublished article:




That's the crux of the issue, isn't it?  Can we and should we bar physiological differences from discussions and careful analysis of this issue?  Are physiological differences important when it comes to recruiting, training, and equipping our warfighters?  If they are important, can the differences be effectively managed or mitigated?  At what cost, and is the juice worth the squeeze?
 

Thanks for posting that--I look forward to reading it after work.