In 2018, a Marine general who heads the service's training command wrote about his concern that the "pursuit of ensuring fair and equitable opportunity" had allowed a female Marine candidate demonstrating "dangerously poor performance" to continue a key course.
2 hours ago Marine Cpl. Thae Ohu, center, stands with her father Ahr Yu, left, and sister, Kay Yu, after she earned the title of Marine in 2013. (Courtesy of Pan Phyu) After almost a year in pretrial confinement Cpl. Thae Ohu is free. The Marine, then an administrative specialist at the Marine Corps Intelligence Schools in Virginia Beach, Virginia, was arrested and charged with attempted murder, multiple accounts of assault, and destruction of government property stemming from an April 2020 incident where she tried to stab her then-boyfriend, Michael Hinesley, a Marine at the time. She claims that the incident was a result of trauma from a previous sexual assault while in the Marine Corps.