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    Marines Weigh Closing Parris Island and San Diego to Open New Coed Boot Camp

    Marines Weigh Closing Parris Island and San Diego to Open New Coed Boot Camp

    I thought they were going to keep boot camp separated by gender. Guess not.

    The Marine Corps is considering a plan in which it could close its two existing boot camp locations and funnel all recruits to a new base where men and women would train together.

    Marine entry-level training is a long way off from being able to meet a congressional mandate to make its East and West coast training bases both able to support gender-integrated training in the coming years, the Corps' top general said on Thursday.



    That is leading the service to study the option of opening a third training base in a new location to which all new recruits would ship, rather than spending cash on construction projects at aging training bases.


    "Nothing, the way we're organized right now, lends itself to integrated recruit training," Commandant Gen. David Berger said on Thursday. "If that's our start point -- and it is -- we have to get to a place on both coasts, or at third location or whatever we end up with, that ... there are male and female recruits around."

    Both the Marine Corps' recruit training depots have storied pasts -- particularly Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, which was first used by Marines in the 1890s. Hundreds of thousands of Marines have stood on the famous yellow footprints on each base at the start of their careers before earning the coveted eagle, globe and anchor and title of Marine.


    But with a new law bearing down on the service to make both locations support coed training -- within five years at Parris Island and eight at San Diego -- the Marine Corps is exploring different options, Maj. Eric Flanagan, Berger's spokesman told Military.com.


    "The question becomes, 'Are we better off just using [military construction] dollars to create a new third site, or put that money into our existing sites?'" he said. "No decisions have been made. We're not investing any money anywhere else. It's just an option we're talking about."
    Ah, a Congressional mandate to waste tax payer dollars. I see.
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    Whichever idiot had this idea will be the next to speak out against Trump.

    Bootie Camp. Really?

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    Male and female Marines have been training together for almost two years.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...t-camp-n954951
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Male and female Marines have been training together for almost two years.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...t-camp-n954951
    I didn't realize that they were.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Male and female Marines have been training together for almost two years.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/militar...t-camp-n954951
    I believe that your article indicates they were trained separately in the past and the 2019 article states they are planning an integrated training.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carolina73 View Post
    I believe that your article indicates they were trained separately in the past and the 2019 article states they are planning an integrated training.
    From the article, dated January 4, 2019.

    A platoon of about 50 female recruits began training Friday at a boot camp with five male platoons in what is traditionally an all-male battalion at the corps' facility at Parris Island, South Carolina, according to a statement.
    The integration of women and men at boot camp is "a first in the history of Marine Corps recruit training," the corps said.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    From the article, dated January 4, 2019.
    I remember now. They still kept the females in a separate platoon.
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