MIXED-GENDER MARINE CORPS BOOT CAMP UNITS REVEAL SURPRISING FINDINGS
Steve Balestrieri | October 27, 2022
The Marine Corps was the last service to gender-integrate Boot Camp for recruits, with female Marine recruits finally taking training at San Diego, which had always been a male-only recruit training station.
Despite many objections to this new policy, the results point to some encouraging news for the success of the program.
One of the principal recommendations of the investigation was that all recruits should be trained by male and female drill instructors. While the Corps would keep same-gender drill instructor teams with male and female platoons only for hygiene, sleeping, and overnight duty, that would change once the recruits leave the barracks. Mixed-gender drill instructors handled the training of all recruits.
“The Marine Corps posits ‘having strong leaders of both genders as role models for young recruits is integral to their assimilation into our ranks,’ yet recruits’ primary training experiences are currently executed by same-gender drill instructor teams,” the Corps’ report said.
https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/mixed-gender-marine-corps-boot-camp-units-reveal-surprising-findings/
