Why co-ed bootcamps will curb sexism in the Marines
By Kate Germano and Kelly Kennedy
April 28, 2018 | 10:34am
By the time I took command of the Marine Corps’ Fourth Recruit Training Battalion in June 2014, I had been in the military for about 17 years. Throughout my career I always held myself and my Marines to high standards. But before I took charge of the battalion — the only all-female unit in the entire Department of Defense and the only place where female Marines are made — my predecessor warned me about the women in the unit, saying “They’re either baking you cupcakes or on your couch in tears.â€
I remember thinking, Wait. What? Wasn’t this the Marine Corps, the toughest of all of the branches of the US military?
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