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Hot off the presses. Officials: Marine commandant recommends women be banned from some combat jobs

My anecdote: Did a 2 week operation outside-the-wire in rural Helmand. The terrain was shitty; tons of random obstacles. The snipers attached to us were carrying immense loads (100-150lbs) and were doing a shit-ton of night movements. Talking 5-15km hikes in the dark to get into position...

See, for stuff like that, it's just smoke and mirrors. I don't think anyone in the SEAL community genuinely believes that a woman will make it through selection. Zero out of 27 women have passed the USMC Infantry Officer's Course and that's the basic course that all infantry/intel officers...

Obviously the answer is yes if we want to throw more money at it. That's really what this comes down too -- are the taxpayers happy with letting women pursue their dreams of being an infantrywoman even if they cost exorbitantly more due to failures in training and injury. Not to mention the...

The perception is that combat experience leads to better promotions to the upper echelons (Colonel-General). This may be true, and it does make sense. I don't have a good answer other than "life isn't fair." Note: No one I know has actually met a woman that wants to be infantry. It's a...

The bottom 5 percent of men for strength/size wouldn't be able to effectively move the biggest 5 percent. But the huge majority of men do not struggle doing fireman carries or drags even with a large weight discrepancy. I was slightly above average in the USMC for physical fitness and 6'1 205...

There has been serious pressure from the civilian overlords for full integration in all jobs previously closed to women. As it stands: 1) All branches have until January 1 2016 to ask for an exemption from full integration. In the last few weeks: 2) The Marine Corps just wrapped up an...

My grandparents live in rural Texas and do this. They find it very rewarding. I don't know the exact specifics of what they do, but it sounds like they meet with potential "new parents" and try to figure out if they'll be able to provide a good environment for a kid. If you have any...

Just started playing this with my brother -- add me "eidal12345" if you're up for playing with level 10 newbs.

Indeed! Before/during/after park trip.

Yes. I'd say in most conversations this comes up organically in the "So, what do you do?" phase of a conversation with a stranger. I very rarely have to interject it pointedly while speaking with a woman, it's out of respect for both her and my wife -- I don't want her (random woman) to take a...

Good comment by a very well respected Sgt Major who participated in the extensive USMC study regarding women in infantry roles. He since took this off his facebook; I suppose his peers pointed out some potential downsides to calling out the Secretary of the Navy in a public social media...

Ifthe taxpayers want to pay for the exorbitantly expensive medical issues that arise. That's the real question.

Marines do this frequently, and complain about it extensively.

Marine Corps gender integration research executive summary USMC spends 40 mil on this shit and the Secretary of the Navy is already dismissing it saying that they went into it with a bias. Whelp...

Haha, I guess "help" is a debatable term when it comes to "guy with Crohn's isn't eating enough to gain weight." I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that any 145lb man turning to steroidswithout doctor supervisionis, ultimately, not helping himself. That being said; the huge majority...

How tall are you and what does your physical activity look like; you work at a deli as I recall? What's your workout routine? Log everything you eat in Myfitnesspal daily for a week then post the screenshots here. I'd expect to see a sizable portion of eggs/chicken/milk every single day...

You can't compare injury rates for athletes to a combat deployment. It's repetitive stress injuries that drop women. I don't have a bone to pick here, but every single data point I've seen indicates that any woman that can tolerate the perpetual stress of a deployment to the same degree as a...

No, you'll lose weight if you maintain a caloric deficit. But 5 hours of sleep isn't healthy and will lead to other issues. I'm no doctor but I believe sustained sleep dep will interfere quite heavily with hormones, repair, building muscle... essentially, every favorable adaptation to exercise...

Women get injured faster than men for a myriad of reasons. They weigh less, bones are less dense, and repair damage slower. Don't get me wrong, we have a fine fighting force and if the civilian overlords say "make it so" then the USMC will find a way to integrate women. Then, they'll all get...

Not to mention how its potentially career-ending for any man to speak out on this subject. And men makeup about 99 percent of those that actually know what they're fucking talking about when it comes to infantry warfare.

The service does indeed have the exact data, but it is a political matter in the sense that the political landscape may shape the nature of the military. After all, the military exists to further the country's goals. If one of those goals happens to be "ensuring all doors open to men are also...

This is a hot topic in my family. I did 5 years in the Marine Corps (Intel with an infantry battalion). In March, My wife went to South Cali to screen for something in Navy Special Warfare. She's leaving on Sunday for 2 months for combat training and SERE. At this point, I can guess at the...

LoL is too simple, lets go with something more robust...

I agree with you guys, generally. I think I'm reluctant to encourage any model that is decidedly non-WoW to move closer to WoW. I already have two AAA games (WoW/FFXIV) and a bunch of others that offer me "conventional" dungeon smashing. I'd rather see a game try to do something else even if...

Bike is good if you find it fun and want to add it to your weekly routine. But the majority of your effort should be on MFP and logging everything scrupulously. You don't hit a 31 BMI without bad eating habits and you can't bike that off.

I don't think this is a fair description for the content at this point in the game. It felt that to me on launch, but I went in expecting something similar to WoW and was overwhelmed by the lack of a tank. Being responsible for my own survival! *gasp* I'm not really sure what you mean by...

It's not his fault that you like stupid shit that doesn't have punishing death penalties, mandatory corpse recoveries, and insane camps designed to bring out the worst in people. Any game that doesn't heavily favor the 12+ hour a day basement dweller is for plebs. Wake up, sheeple.

Interesting and it makes sense. Thanks guys.

Wife has been playing around with Duolingo recently. Does anyone here have any experience or thoughts regarding the value of being bilingual? Intuitively, I'm assuming it would expand one's choices but I'm not too familiar with how or the actual tangible value. For what it's worth, I'm...

Haha, these posts remind me of being active duty, feeling the ominous atmosphere at work, and chugging a few beers after getting home to ward off any chances of being called back into work. "Ohhhhh, sorry Gunny, I'm pretty drunk already. Do youreallyneed me to put camis on and go to..."...

Shrug -- I'm perfectly fine with a private school saying: ("If you want to be a student here, we will tell you what you can do on your private property.") Let the market figure it out, if students are okay waiving their first amendment rights to attend then that's fine. Not sure what I think...

I've agreed/disagreed with Mist off/on over the last few years, but even with the disagreements I've understood where she was coming from. But this? Lol, jesus christ. If the college-age daughter isn't prepared enough to interpret and act accordingly in regards to signs on a house implying...

I couldn't get around how clunky/shitty everything felt. Didn't experience any of the immersiveness I've heard others reference. Game looked and felt stupid so I didn't play it very long. I wish I could have -- seems like for some folks, this game has been an amazing amount of content and...

Just by the tone of this post, I'm happy you get nothing and I suspect the community at large would have been better off had your ban been permanent. Keep blaming the world, son.

Yea, this league is wacky. But this is likely two new factors combined: exalts being more usable by the "average man" and chaos being more easily farmed given the inevitable power creep. My point is that most people really just want to kill shit and experiment with different builds. There...

Not sure what the going rate of e:c is right now but in past leagues 1 ex:50c was standard. Assuming its 1:70 right now (not sure, stopped playing), that's kinda a drag but kill rate as a whole has likely gone up. I amassed about 50 pure exalts in a month on Warbands, with most of my profit...

The recent economic shit released by the #1 neckbeard crew really have no impact on the vast majority of PoE players. People that A) have the play time, B) the inclination, and C) the ability to play in the top 1 percentile are likely already doing so -- anyone rabbling about this are just...

I think it's similar to old-school searing bond in the sense that it doesn't require much to scale -- one of the vets on the forums/reddit posted a build for a PA solo budget MFer that he spent months working on.

Yea, I'm aware of that. I've seen people referencing "use a 53 to open bags". My vague understanding is this has to do with some loot bag reward being tied to the level of the opening character? Anyone able to shed some light on this?