Philip Athey
September 25, 2020 Recent congressional mandates for gender-integration at Marine boot camp will put a strain on Marine recruit infrastructure as it is. The Corps currently does not have the facilities to integrate genders at the platoon level at both recruit depots, as the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act will require. “Nothing the way we’re organized right now lends itself to integrated recruit training,” Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger said at Defense One’s state of the Marine Corps event in September 2020. “We have to get to a place where on both coasts or at a third location, or whatever we end up with that every recruit male, female, there’s all there’s male and female around,” he added.
“The Eyes of Freedom: Lima Company Memorial” will be exhibited to the public in the Ohio Statehouse Rotunda in Columbus from Friday through March 11.
The traveling tribute depicts the fallen of the Columbus-based Lima Company 3/25, one of the most heavily engaged and hardest hit units of U.S. combat operations in the Middle East. The exhibition, which includes 23 life-size portraits and a bronze sculpture, strives to connect struggling veterans with resources, partner organizations, and other struggling veterans to unite in the battle against the hidden wounds of war.
More information about the exhibit is available online at www.EyesOfFreedom.org.
Marine corporal saves civilian couple kayaking in treacherous waters off California coast February 24 Brig. Gen. Dan Conley, right, the commanding general of Marine Corps Installations West, poses with Cpl. Jordan Perez, a combat engineer with 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, in the 21 Area of Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 19. (Lance Cpl. Alison Dostie/Marine Corps) In mid-February, a married couple, taking advantage of Southern California weather, went kayaking in the Pacific Ocean. At some point, the couple kayaked into the amphibious vehicle 21 Area Boat Basin training area off the shore of Camp Pendleton, California, where “unforgivable” waves flipped the two into the water, according to a Marine Corps press release.
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In a historic first, women begin Marine boot camp in San Diego
A female recruit waits her turn to call home to tell her family that she has arrived safely at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.
(Nelvin C. Cepeda / San Diego Union-Tribune)
SAN DIEGO
Recruits piled off buses this week to the urgent shouts and barks of Marine Corps drill instructors.
They took their spots on the fabled yellow footprints to begin their transformation from civilians to Marines something that has happened countless times in the San Diego boot camp’s almost 100-year history.
Only this time, for the first time, 60 women were among those scrambling recruits. Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego is no longer a male-only institution.