Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Julianna Pinder will report to duty Jan. 8 at the Marine Corps Recruiting RSS East in Aurora, Colorado, next door to Army Recruiting Aurora where she used to work.
Julianna Pinder, now a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army was forced out of the Marines for not meeting body composition requirements after having a baby.
Female Marines Who Called Out the Corps Commend New Postpartum Policy
The Marine Corps is now giving new moms a full year to meet fitness and weight requirements after childbirth, making it among the military s longest postpartum recovery periods. (Christine Cabalo/U.S. Marine Corps)
11 Feb 2021
The Marine Corps is now giving new moms a full year to meet fitness and weight requirements after childbirth, making it among the military s longest postpartum recovery periods.
And female Marines say while the move is long overdue, it will help build faith with women in the Corps. This policy change reinforced [Commandant Gen. David Berger s] statement in his planning guidance that we should never ask our Marines to choose between being the best parent possible and the best Marine possible and his priority to manage talent in the Force, Maj. Sharon Sisbarro said on behalf of the Marine Women s Initiative Team, which works to improve female recruitment and retention in the service.
Marine mothers are now exempt from fitness tests, weight standards for 1 year after giving birth February 8 Marines and their spouses attend the quarterly Headquarters and Support Battalion baby shower on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 21, 2018. (Lance Cpl. Megan Roses/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps will extend the postpartum moratorium on physical fitness from nine months to 12 months, according to an administrative message released from the Marine Corps on Monday. Historically Marines have been given nine months from the time they gave birth to get within Marine Corps standards and start passing the physical fitness test and combat fitness test.