In 2018, a Marine general who heads the service's training command wrote about his concern that the "pursuit of ensuring fair and equitable opportunity" had allowed a female Marine candidate demonstrating "dangerously poor performance" to continue a key course.
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3 Female Marine Officers to Attempt Infantry Officer Course as Another Graduates
Marines in the Infantry Officer Course run to their first objective during a live-fire training exercise at Range 410A aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., on June 9, 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. William Chockey)
16 Dec 2020
The Marine Corps will soon have its second female infantry leader after a lieutenant graduates from the famously tough Infantry Officer Course, which prepares officers to command grunts in combat.
The second lieutenant will pick up the infantry officer military occupational specialty on Friday when she s expected to graduate from the course, said Capt. Sam Stephenson, a Training and Education Command spokesman.
Another female Marine expected to graduate from the Infantry Officer Course Friday December 14, 2020 Marines participate in an exercise during the Infantry Officer Course at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Sept. 18, 2017. The first female Marine to complete the course graduated Sept. 25, 2017. (Sgt. Gregory Boyd/Marine Corps) Another female Marine is on the verge of graduating the Corps’ Infantry Officer Course and earning the 0302 Marine Corps infantry officer military occupational specialty, according to the Corps. That female Marine started the infamously difficult course in October and is “on track” to graduate Friday, Capt. Sam Stephenson, a spokesman for the Marine Corps’ Training and Education Command, told Marine Corps Times Monday.