Training Standards & Health

Double-Think and Dissembling About Double Standards in...

President Barack Obama is pushing hard for women in direct ground combat units, to include Army and Marine infantry and Special Operations Forces . Under Defense Department mandates for "gender diversity," women will be incrementally ordered (not... Read More

14 Nov 13

Tags Military Culture/Diversity, Training Standards & Health, Women in the Military

A Challenge for the Commandant

For many months, the Center for Military Readiness has been analyzing the Marine Corps's plan to research the possibility of assigning women to infantry battalions. Read More

13 Nov 12

Tags Training Standards & Health, Women in the Military

"Gender-Diverse" Army Ranger School? - Part I

Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno surprised and dismayed infantry and Special Operations Forces veterans when he announced in May that he might send female officers to Ranger school. Gen. Odierno did not claim that combat readiness... Read More

14 Aug 12

Tags Military Culture/Diversity, Training Standards & Health, Women in the Military

"Gender-Diverse" Army Ranger School? - Part II

Whenever the question of women in the infantry comes up, well-meaning observers often comment that such assignments should be allowed (actually, ordered) if women can meet the same physical standards as men. . . . Read More

14 Aug 12

Tags Military Culture/Diversity, Training Standards & Health, Women in the Military

Army Pregnancy Training...for Men

On February 9 the Department of Defense announced incremental steps to implement a report advocating doctrinaire "diversity" in the military. Read More

21 Feb 12

Tags Military Culture/Diversity, Training Standards & Health, Women in the Military

Navy Ignores Warnings of Health Issues for Women on...

The push to assign women to submarines began in September, 2009, when Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead started promoting the idea as if women’s career opportunities were the only consideration. The Center for... Read More

13 May 10

Tags Ships & Submarines, Training Standards & Health, Women in the Military

CMR COMPILES DEFINITIVE SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ON CO-ED...

In the fall of 1996 sensational news of sex scandals broke out at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, and at several gender-integrated basic training facilities. Read More

03 Sep 03

Tags Training Standards & Health

ARMY GENDER-INTEGRATED BASIC TRAINING (GIBT)

CMR compiled report on Gender-Integrated Basic Training - 1993-2002. Read More

25 Jul 03

Tags Training Standards & Health

CO-ED TRAINING DAMAGES HEALTH OF WOMEN SOLDIERS

A British Army doctor has confirmed that female soldiers are paying for "equal opportunities" with a much higher risk of injury than men during basic training. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Lt. Col. Ian Gemmell noted that women’s rates of injury doubled when... Read More

03 Jan 02

Tags Training Standards & Health

Pro-Defense Groups Push for End to Co-Ed Training

Fifteen public policy and pro-defense organizations with membership in the millions have joined with CMR in asking the Department of Defense to put an end to gender-integrated basic training. A letter dated July 25, 2001, was addressed to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and co-signed by... Read More

01 Jan 02

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