![]() ![]() They are experimenting with putting the male and female platoons together more often during training. That means ending separate platoons the way the other services did years ago, she said. It’s the baby boomers who are still stuck in this mindset that is 50 to 75 years old,” Speier said. “I think the new younger generation gets it. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, put a provision into the National Defense Authorization Act requiring the Marines to integrate boot camp by 2025 on the East Coast, at Parris Island, South Carolina, and integrate traditionally all-male San Diego MCRD by 2028. VID: Marines Still Under The Gun To Integrate Women Despite Success Of First Boot Camp Class All the more reason, she said, to integrate Marines before they graduate out of boot camp. Zamudio will soon head into an even more male-dominated environment. She could not point to an incident where she felt they were being rejected, even while she led a squad of male recruits during training. Zamudio said the women felt accepted by their fellow male recruits in San Diego. And finding out the infantry was a bigger challenge, I was like, 'give it to me. military were opened in 2015, there are still few women in the infantry. This is just step one,” said Zamudio, crying with joy after being hugged by her mother and grandmother moments after her graduation at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego.įemale Marines call themselves "The Fewer, The Prouder," a play on the tag line for one of the most famous Marine recruiting slogans, “The Few, The Proud, The Marines.” Even after all combat roles in the U.S. “I’m just one step closer to being a better Marine, a better leader. The female platoon had the top scores in physical fitness and combat fitness - over five male platoons in their company. Emily Zamudio, 19, of Madera, California is part of the first female platoon to graduate Marine boot camp in San Diego. which may be contacted at ticker BMTM.Pfc. The content of this webpage may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written consent of Bright Mountain Media, Inc. ![]() Regardless of how much they weighed or size.” 1st Class Karen Carter, a senior drill sergeant. “A lot of the females, when they started, in the beginning- I would think one way, I’ll be honest with you,” said Sgt. Still, the fact remains that over half made it through the training, ushering in a new era for the United States Army. Leadership attributed the high female attrition rates in the class -nearly fifty percent- to a private’s size and stamina when carrying the standard 35-pound rucksack and combat loads, with most of the women only around or under 5’4 and weighing less than 125 pounds. ![]() The females graduated from the 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment last Friday, stepping off Benning’s grounds as the first female junior enlisted infantrymen.Īccording to the Army Times, the new breed have been sent off to new assignments, with some heading to Fort Hood’s 1st Cavalry Division and others awaiting airborne school for their eventual transfer to Fort Bragg’s 82nd Airborne Division. “No way,” one soldier told Popular Military when asked if women were held to the same standards. However, some sources who graduated from within the unit -whom requested concealed identities to protect their new careers- claimed a clear double-standard between males and females in their training cycle, including lighter rucksacks and lower expectations. But certainly by the end of the cycle, I was doing more push-ups, because I had her chasing me.” It was something that definitely made me better, and maybe kept me up nights a few times. “Speaking as the person who had the second-highest PT score- she had me looking over my soldier the whole cycle. “There was even one female that did better than 90 percent of the males on the PT test,” said one 22-year-old male trainee, who reportedly had high PT scores. That said, there were some women who certainly gave their male colleagues a run for their money. While the attrition rate doesn’t seem all that alarming, it strikes a more concerning tone when factoring in that the females needed only to meet the much-lower female standards for physical fitness that separate them from their previously all-male counterparts. In fact, only eighteen of the thirty-two female infantry recruits made it through the One Station Unit Training (OSUT) program at Fort Benning, Georgia. Albright, Maneuver Center Photographer)Īmerica’s first female Army Infantrymen are here, but not all of them made it through. Army Infantry soldiers-in-training assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 198th Infantry Brigade, conduct their ‘Turning Blue Ceremony’ where they put on their distinctive blue cords identifying them as infantrymen May 18, 2017, at Sand Hill’s Pomeroy Field. ![]()
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