50 or 60 . The problem is, all the other risks involved. Even if you have this one woman why are we changing the policy based on one woman . The problem is this is just about a couple of women who want to. First of all, now women are subject to involuntary assignment, because that is what repealing the combat exception means. The women who are willing and maybe able, when they succumb to their two to ten times greater risk of injury, their replacements are going to come from the pool of the unwilling, and most women in the marine corps and in the overall forces are not interested in the infantry. Right now, we dont have any who have applied of the ones who were in that integration study or who have gone through Marine Infantry Training battalions. We had a lot of trouble finding any women who want to. This is a deterrent for recruitment as well. There is a 2012 study of the marine corps, 54,000 covered, thatfound that, about 4 of women who are staying and would not stay in if involunta
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