Texas, boulder and with the efforts like what steve case is doing and what eda is doing to actually help fund a number of these organizations. Were helping entrepreneurs around the United States get access not only to mentorship and to training remember, theyre going to a business idea to a Business Plan to how to actually create an organization legally to having to hire people et cetera. That whole process is something daunting if youre not dont come from folks who can help you do that. And so these are really centers that are able to help young folks, and its old folks doesnt matter what age you are. Just any entrepreneur, and its very exciting what is happening there. I will put in a plug that we just started this past month with eric levin who is one of the incubator, has come here so we can have an incubation at the aspen institute. Both for profit and nonprofit entrepreneurs, people want to be social entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs in the private sector because that notion of brin
Leadership that we quite often consider quite acceptable because they are usually quite effective. They create the kind of units that perform according to the standards at the end of the day. Why should we fire them if theyre effective as officers. While actually they are producing unit cultures that in the end may become really problematic. Some experiences with the worst cases of units misbehavior leading to crimes or war crimes, for example. We have the business literature out there supporting us more and more. That doesnt mean so much, though. Because, again we are looking at combat that doesnt apply because warfare is something completely different. You can always dismiss that. Thats very clear, though. We are seeing the same thing within diplomacy and negotiations and humanitarian affairs that if you have gender lenses. Youll do it more effectively. One might assume that applies to the military affairs and intelligence gathering, as well. Unless its so unique that it doesnt, agai
Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66 of the very good performers were men and 34 were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92 were men and 8 were women. So this initial Screening Test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell into the good and the ve
There are a few here who are from there as well. Its hard to listen to you talk about ashley. I see people getting emotional in the audience. And im like hold it together. I did the vso mission. I would now start with you because youre most recent and then i would just work out. What attracted you to the mission and who first told you about it . Initially i heard about it with cst2 was the first time i heard about it. And i had wanted to go then and my commander wouldnt let me and my commanders wouldnt let me and it was just because you needed lets explain to the audience. You needed to get because it was a oneyear mission, you needed to get signoff from your commander because they would just be down one person, right . Correct. And so eventually my commander happened to be gone for a month and i got my x. O. , who had responsibility thats innovative leadership. So she signed off on it and a couple months later i was at selection. As far as what drove me to do it, this was i did three