US Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Godfrey Ampong
The Marine Corps is sending women to its all-male West Coast boot camp in San Diego for the first time.
The Corps already trains women at its other recruit depot in South Carolina, but the service is preparing to meet a congressional mandate to make its entry-level training coed.
For the first time ever, the Marine Corps is about to send dozens of women to its all-male West Coast boot camp as the service prepares to meet a congressional mandate to make its entry-level training coed.
About 60 female recruits will begin training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in February, multiple officials told Military.com. The plan is part of a test run as the Marine Corps experiments with ways to end its long-held tradition of separating enlisted recruits by gender when they arrive at boot camp.
By ANDREW DYER | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: December 14, 2020 SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) For the first time in its 100-year history, women will attend recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego early next year, the Marine Corps said in a news release. The recruit company, designated Lima Company, will serve as a proof of concept to demonstrate to the Marine Corps what will be required for future sustained integrated recruit training in San Diego, according to the Marines. The recruits will report to the depot Feb. 12. This is the first time we are able to give Marines who graduate from MCRD San Diego the same integrated experience that many of their peers at Parris Island have received already, Brig. Gen. Ryan P. Heritage, the commanding general of the depot, said in a statement. (This) will get us one step closer to understanding the facilities and personnel needed to make this a sustained reality.
SAN DIEGO
For the first time in its nearly 100-year history, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego will accept women for recruit training early next year, the Marine Corps said Monday.
The recruit company, designated “Lima,” will serve as a “proof of concept” to demonstrate to the Marine Corps what will be required for sustained integrated recruit training in San Diego, according to the Marines. The recruits will report to the depot Feb. 12.
“This is the first time we are able to give Marines who graduate from MCRD San Diego the same integrated experience that many of their peers at Parris Island [in South Carolina] have received already,” Brig. Gen. Ryan P. Heritage, the commanding general of the depot, said in a statement. [This] will get us one step closer to understanding the facilities and personnel needed to make this a sustained reality.”
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SAN DIEGO
For the first time in its 100-year history, women will attend recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego early next year, the Marine Corps said in a news release.
The recruit company, designated “Lima” Company, will serve as a “proof of concept” to demonstrate to the Marine Corps what will be required for future sustained integrated recruit training in San Diego, according to the Marines. The recruits will report to the depot Feb. 12.
“This is the first time we are able to give Marines who graduate from MCRD San Diego the same integrated experience that many of their peers at Parris Island have received already,” Brig. Gen. Ryan P. Heritage, the commanding general of the depot, said in a statement. (This) will get us one step closer to understanding the facilities and personnel needed to make this a sustained reality.”