Recruits: Aye, sir!
Narrator: The day before, recruits from the gender-integrated Hotel Company assemble in front of their barracks for a briefing. Although female recruits have trained at Parris Island since 1949, gender-integrated companies didn t emerge until 2019. As of January 2021, this group of recruits was the most gender-diverse company of enlisted recruits in the history of the Marine Corps. And among those in Hotel Company are a brother and sister from Georgia 21-year-old Lazaro Cisneros and his 19-year-old sister, Mayra.
Lazaro: My sister and me are here doing the Crucible together. We re in the same company. We usually don t see each other often, but we always get, like, a glimpse of each other.
for decades and decades men and women have done it separately up until the last couple of years, and so we embedded with with a company called hotel company in camp pendleton, the last base to to begin gender integration, and we profile the number of women who are training alongside their male count parts, and you ll see how it went tonight on this is life. lisa, how did the male marines, given that this has been so controversial in the past, how did the male marines that you spoke with feel about the the women being integrated into the marine corps? was there some wariness, or were they quite encouraging and welcoming? well, the young men we spoke to were welcoming of it because they were seeing how hard their female counterparts were working, and the idea behind integrating so early on is, you know, they there were women instructors as well as male instructors for marine combat
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get involved in international problem without international support, i just don t see where that helps us at all move forward. and congressman rangel, just to get to another point you advocated for a draft, which is an interesting perspective given the gender integration of the military. you re talking bat draft not only for male members of the military or prospective members, but for women, too. i think the defense department made it abundantly clear that men and women have to be treated equally in our services, but there s no question in my mind that the congress would not be so willing to go along with presidents who put our men and women in harm s way if they thought that their families and loved ones, their constituents could be drafted. most of all of our draftees who are paid to fight these wars come from a low-income communities