First female completes Marine sniper leader course; could become platoon commander

[rangerrebew]

 First female completes Marine sniper leader course; could become platoon commander
 
January 23, 2019 Cheryl Hinneburg
 

For the first time ever, the Marines may see a female commander on the battlefield after the first woman in history graduated from the rigorous Scout Sniper Unit Leaders Course.

The course, which takes place in Quantico, Va., lasts for three weeks and is designed to prepare “junior officer and noncommissioned officers to lead Marine snipers,” according to the Marine Corps Times.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/01/first-female-completes-marine-sniper-leader-course-could-become-platoon-commander/

[sneakypete]

SHOULD read "WILL become platoon leader as she climbs the career ladder of success". No way in hell is she making it a career and actually doing the job in combat.

Not that women can't in urban situations. There were LOTS of Russian female snipers at Leningrad. City sniping and wild-country sniping are two different creatures,though.

[sneakypete]

“Men and women attending the Infantry Officer Course are evaluated by the same standards and are provided an “equal opportunity to succeed,” Capt. Joshua J. Pena, a spokesman for the Marines’ Training and Education Command said.

That sentence should have started out with "Once upon a time.......",like all good fairy tales.

[the_doc]

There were LOTS of Russian female snipers at Leningrad.

I believe they were mainly at Stalingrad.

[Frank Cannon]

That sentence should have started out with "Once upon a time.......",like all good fairy tales.

I agree. The military is nothing but a bunch of PC Leftist hacks anymore.

[sneakypete]

I believe they were mainly at Stalingrad.

@I stand corrected and apologize for my brain fart. Stalingrad it was.

[the_doc]

@I stand corrected and apologize for my brain fart. Stalingrad it was.

Don't worry about it.  Leningrad even sounded right to me when I first read it. 

[ABX]

Good job