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Kate Mannion was gutted when she found out she wouldn’t be deploying with her military police unit to Afghanistan in 2010. After learning they would be heading to Marjah to train local police forces alongside Marine infantry units, Mannion was told she’d have to sit on the sidelines, though she wasn’t injured, nor did she have a family emergency. \n\nThe problem was that Kate was a woman. And in 2010, women weren’t legally allowed in combat arms positions, nor could they attach to combat units in any way — not even in supporting roles, such as communications or logistics.\n\n“I was devastated,” Mannion said. “I’d trained for two years with these guys, they were my brothers. And then to find out they would all deploy but I wouldn’t because I was a woman, because this assignment was outside the wire? I was crushed.” \n\nHer leadership eventually found a loophole. Kate would join one of the new Female Engagement Teams (FET) assigned to the region. It was a novel concept, assembling a group of women who’d work alongside male infantry units, modeled on special operations’ cultural support teams. Afghan culture forbade male service members from interacting at all with local women, making information gathering impossible. \n\nFETs bridged that gap. They collected intelligence, coordinated medical care for local women, and patrolled, though they couldn’t tell their higher headquarters they were patrolling. Instead, they had to use vague phrases like “gathering atmospherics” to avoid attracting attention. \n\n“Thank god I had a sense of humor because a lot of times that’s what helped the grunts accept me,” said Mannion, who later turned comedy into a career as a co-host of the popular podcast, Zero Blog Thirty. \n\nThe wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t the first times the military has had to unexpectedly, or reluctantly, allow women to shoulder more of the burden of war. FETs, and the Lioness program, which began in Iraq in 2003, have catapulted women’s roles in warfare into the 21st century. \n\nWomen have managed to access military service throughout history, though their service has usually been strictly confined to the day’s cultural norms. But the use of FETs, and the pairing of women and men enduring the hardships of ground combat, have changed the debate over whether women can serve in ground combat roles. The fact is that they have, and with more women now serving in the Army and Marine infantry and as Rangers and special operators, they’ll continue to do so. \n\n‘To look unattractive… is downright morale-breaking and should be considered treason’\n\n\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Marine Corps Col. Todd P. Simmons, commanding officer of 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) speaks to Marines with the Female Engagement Team (FET) at Fort Pickett, Va., Feb. 21, 2016. The FET participated in the training in preparation for a future deployment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Koby I. Saunders / 22 Marine Expeditionary Unit / Released)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\nThe history of the U.S. military is filled with examples of women being treated as second-class citizens for simply wanting to serve their country. Hundreds of women disguised themselves as men to enlist during the Civil War. Sometimes they passed for years, and a few even remained as men for the rest of their lives and drew veterans’ pensions. Some who were discovered serving as men were imprisoned, including the only woman ever to have received the Medal of Honor. \n\nWhen World War I arrived, women went to work at a time when it wasn’t normal, or socially acceptable, for middle-class women to work outside the Victorian “domestic sphere.” Women went from wearing organ-displacing corsets to Army or Red Cross uniforms almost overnight, though they were barred from active-duty status. Only the reserves were open to them. Notably, the Navy allowed women to enlist as clerks — one of the earliest examples of “equal pay for equal work” — and receive the same wages as a man. All of this before they even had the right to vote. The 19th Amendment only passed after WWI ended.\n\nAnd while many white women served as nurses (female doctors were banned) on the front lines of WWI, Black women weren’t allowed such privilege, though the military later accepted them into the ranks after the Spanish Flu created a dire need for more nurses, albeit in segregated quarters. Later, in World War II, Black nurses were relegated to providing care for German POWs. \n\nWomen returned to traditionally masculine jobs to support the WWII effort. This time they had more options. They became pilots, mechanics, and worked in shipyards, ammunition factories, though with strict oversight on beauty and curves. Part of their jobs revolved around making sure they looked pretty at work. As one male soldier wrote in 1941, for women “to look unattractive these days is downright morale-breaking and should be considered treason.”\n\nWomen had proved they could thrive in areas that would have been unthinkable before– the military and the workforce. But after the end of WWII, the women who wanted to stay in the workforce were called “unlovely women,\" accused of being man-haters and “suffering from penis envy.” Employers wanted men for work, not women, regardless of their skill and competence.\n\n‘We weren’t supposed to take her out [on missions] but we had to because there was no other medic’\n\n\t\t\t\t\tArmy Spc. Monica Brown in Khost province, Afghanistan. Brown is the second woman since World War II to earn a Silver Star for combat bravery.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\nIn 2010, Kate Mannion was on a deployment she “shouldn’t have been on,” but it wasn’t all that different from the experience of another woman, Pfc. Monica Lin Brown. She shouldn’t have been on her unit’s patrol “outside the wire” during their 2007 deployment to Afghanistan, either. But the other medic, a male, was sick, and the unit needed someone to take care of soldiers if they were wounded on the battlefield. \n\n“We weren’t supposed to take her out [on missions] but we had to because there was no other medic,” her platoon leader recalled later. “By regulations, you’re not supposed to,” but Brown “was one of the guys, mixing it up, clearing rooms, doing everything that anybody else was doing.\"\n\nBrown became the second woman to receive the Silver Star after responding to an improvised explosive device and enemy fire. She ran through vicious Taliban gunfire and saved two lives before she was subsequently pulled off patrols. Her presence in the fight attracted unwanted attention from leadership. \n\nMannion had a similar experience. \n\n“There was a period when we got pulled back to base,” she said. “They couldn’t decide if we could be out there or not.” Amidst trying to work with locals and coordinating humanitarian efforts, Kate said, “we had to wait while leadership debated letting us back out. They didn’t want to let women leave the wire. We knew what we were doing wasn’t technically allowed.” \n\n‘They were surprised and curious about us’\n\nFuture wartime successes may depend partly on exposing all-male partner nation forces to female U.S. military service members. Many nations where U.S. forces train, especially in Asia and the Middle East, rank low when it comes to women’s rights and women holding positions of authority. And while the U.S. military is still overwhelmingly male, female generals currently command both U.S. Transportation Command and U.S. Southern Command, and service women’s numbers are expected to grow. \n\n\t\t\t\t\tThe 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Female Engagement Team (FET) converse and laugh with the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army Quick Reaction Force FET members at a joint question and answer session during subject matter expert exchange between the two countries August 7, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Shaiyla B. Hakeem)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\nOne active-duty Marine, who spoke with Task & Purpose on condition of anonymity since she was not authorized to speak to reporters, witnessed this dynamic firsthand during a 2018 FET deployment to Indonesia. As part of their training, the FET and U.S. and Indonesian infantry Marines hiked seven miles daily, mostly through rural villages. “The locals came out to watch us,” she said. “I remember a little girl ran up to me one day. I kneeled down to say hello and let her touch my short hair. I think she was surprised to see a woman doing a man’s job.” She noted that the Indonesian Marines didn’t have any female Marines. \n\nThe FET’s involvement with jungle warfare training challenged any assumptions the all-male Indonesian Marines had about women. “They were surprised and curious about us,” she said. “Initially they were really hesitant to interact. But towards the end of the training, they were much more comfortable around us and really friendly.”\n\nUntil just last year, the Indonesian military subjected female recruits to abusive “virginity tests” as a way of determining their “morality.”\n\nDispelling harmful gender beliefs, like the idea that a woman’s leadership ability or level of respect hinges on virginity — or any part of her sexuality —  may seem irrelevant. But most women have to work to be taken seriously, and military women are no exception. It’s not enough to wear a uniform. People, including some military men in friendly nations, have to actually see them perform to understand their capabilities. \n\nThat seems to be the crux of women in service. Most have to work hard just to be accepted, whether they’re in combat arms or not. Even the last Marine Commandant said as much to during a 2017 congressional hearing: “How much more do the females of our Corps have to do to be accepted?” Gen. Robert Neller asked at the time. “Was it enough when Major Megan McClung was killed by an IED in Ramadi or Captain Jennifer Harris killed when her helicopter was shot down while she was flying blood from Baghdad to Fallujah surgical or Corporals Jennifer Parcell and Hally Ann Sherrod and Ramona Valdez, all killed by the hands of our enemies? What is it going to take for you to accept these Marines as Marines?” \n\nFETs: Better to have and not need than need and not have\n\nWhen Marine FET leader 1st Lt. Alex Busch arrived at her unit prior to overseas deployment, she was surprised to learn there wasn’t a FET, nor were there plans to develop one. So she dug up email addresses to prior FET members and created her own. But some people dismissed her plan and questioned why she even felt the need to integrate with infantry Marines. There was no need to be tactical. \n\n“The infantry staff are the most supportive of us,” she told Task & Purpose. “If commanders can have an extra asset they can call on, especially if you’re a crisis response unit, why would people not want us to do this?” \n\nDeveloping early relationships with infantry counterparts helps prepare everyone for contingencies, she said. \"We need to integrate and integrate early. We have to plan for everything.”\n\n\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Marines with the Female Engagement Team attached to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participate in a brief during a live-fire training event on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, March 2, 2022. Members of the Female Engagement Team attached to the MEU participated in live-fire training to build and sharpen their skills in combat marksmanship held by Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Armando Elizalde)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\nShe pointed out that there's no concrete guidance on how or when units should create and utilize FETs, even though requests for FET support have been common over the years. Indeed, Marine spokesman Capt. Andrew Wood confirmed the ad-hoc nature of FETs: “Female Engagement Teams are task-organized units established by unit commanders based on mission requirements,” he said.\n\nStill, a FET member who was involved in the chaotic evacuation of U.S. forces and Afghan allies from Afghanistan in 2021, believes the Corps should make FETs more permanent. There was no FET on her deployment until a couple of weeks before heading into Afghanistan, despite non-combatant evacuations being a unit mission, she said. \n\nThe Marine’s unit quickly assembled a group of women dedicated to searching Afghan women and children amidst what would prove to be a harrowing and tragic mission. But searching people for explosives isn’t the same as an airport security pat-down — it’s intensely invasive. The team was thrown together last-minute, eliminating any opportunities to train under stress. \n\n“If we’d done this sooner, we wouldn’t have had some of the problems we had,” the Marine said on condition of anonymity. “We had to learn personalities and build trust as a team. Figuring that out in Afghanistan just added more stress.”\n\n”If I’d known I was going to be on the FET before deployment I would have taken advantage of any downtime to train with the grunts,” she said. “Get in the training. Make it work.” \n\nThe 'controversy' continues\n\nThe debate around women in combat has raged ferociously for years. But in 2022, it seems like women serving in or close to infantry units is shaping up to be a new normal. Controversy remains, though: gender biases have been noted, and some men don’t want to work with women. The Air Force recently came under fire for trying to admit a woman through its special operations pipeline, despite her own desire to quit. For some nations though, controversy about women in combat is a luxury they can’t afford. \n\nGender integration expert Beth Wolny, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, is optimistic about the future. “History wins,” she told Task & Purpose. “Time and time again, the services fight about letting women into more positions. But then the next conflict comes and they go into those roles, and they do well.” \n\n\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Autumn M. Duckworth, a communications navigations counter systems technician with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fires at targets during a live-fire training event on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, March 2, 2022. Members of the Female Engagement Team attached to the MEU participated in live-fire training to build and sharpen their skills in combat marksmanship held by Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Armando Elizalde)\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\nShe noted that in 2015, Marine leadership distilled a thousand pages of gender integration studies into just four, omitting important nuances. A shortage of willing male and female volunteers in select specialties made gathering accurate data challenging. Some of the male volunteers Wolny interviewed for her own research deemed the study \"unfair,\" she said.\n\nPrior to 2012, passing the grueling combat endurance test at Marine Infantry Officer Course wasn’t a graduation prerequisite. That requirement emerged the same year women were allowed into the course. A longtime advocate for equal physical standards in combat arms, Wolny wonders why the Marine Corps has resisted gender-neutral standards for combat arms. The Army, meanwhile, is still figuring that out. \n\nMarine Corps University professor Bradford Wineman sees gender integration as a critical part of successful modern recruiting. \n\n”Patriotism and republicanism alone aren’t bringing people into the military like they used to,” Wineman said, noting that outdated policies, and a “too little too late” diversity and inclusion effort, as contributing to impending recruiting doom. “Recruiters are working 70-hour weeks just to get people to the depot. That’s not sustainable over the next few decades.”\n\n\"Contrary to the conceptions of many male Marines, women don't enter the service with the mission of destroying the Marine Corps,” said Wineman. “Women want to serve for the same reasons that they do.\" \n\nPerhaps more than anything else, the 2015 gender integration study highlighted the lack of physical standards within combat arms. And it showed that being “heavier helped when marching under load, and challenges like equipment-fit and carrying heavy weight affected shorter female and male Marines in similar ways,” Wolny said.\n\n“Women will play a critical role in the next conflict, not in spite of the new roles they fill, but because of them,” she said.\n\n+++\n\nKelsey Baker is a journalist and a former active duty Marine officer. 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Kate Mannion was gutted when she found out she wouldn’t be deploying with her military police unit to Afghanistan in 2010. After learning they would be heading to Marjah to train local police forces alongside Marine infantry units, Mannion was told she’d have to sit on the sidelines, though she wasn’t injured, nor did she have a family emergency. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The problem was that Kate was a woman. And in 2010, women weren’t <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.army.mil/article/94932/secretary_of_defense_rescinds_direct_ground_combat_definition_and_assignment_rule#:~:text=The%20memo%20rescinds%20the%201994,primary%20mission%20is%20to%20engage" target="_blank">legally allowed</a> in combat arms positions, nor could they attach to combat units in any way — not even in supporting roles, such as communications or logistics.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“I was devastated,” Mannion said. “I’d trained for two years with these guys, they were my brothers. And then to find out they would all deploy but I wouldn’t because I was a woman, because this assignment was outside the wire? I was crushed.” </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Her leadership eventually found a loophole. Kate would join one of the new Female Engagement Teams (FET) assigned to the region. It was a novel concept, assembling a group of women who’d work alongside male infantry units, modeled on special operations’ <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/the-story-of-the-incredible-women-who-served-with-special-ops-units-in-afghanistan/">cultural support teams</a>. Afghan culture forbade male service members from interacting at all with local women, making information gathering impossible. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">FETs bridged that gap. They collected intelligence, coordinated medical care for local women, and patrolled, though they couldn’t tell their higher headquarters they were <em>patrolling</em>. Instead, they had to use vague phrases like “gathering atmospherics” to avoid attracting attention. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“Thank god I had a sense of humor because a lot of times that’s what helped the grunts accept me,” said Mannion, who later turned comedy into a career as a co-host of the popular podcast, <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.barstoolsports.com/shows/23/zero-blog-thirty" target="_blank">Zero Blog Thirty</a>. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t the first times the military has had to unexpectedly, or reluctantly, allow women to shoulder more of the burden of war. FETs, and the <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/arts/television/05lion.html" target="_blank">Lioness program</a>, which began in Iraq in 2003, have catapulted women’s roles in warfare into the 21st century. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Women have managed to access military service throughout history, though their service has usually been strictly confined to the day’s cultural norms. But the use of FETs, and the pairing of women and men enduring the hardships of ground combat, have changed the debate over whether women <em>can</em> serve in ground combat roles. The fact is that they have, and with more women now serving in the <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/true-story-army-made-first-female-infantrymen/">Army and Marine infantry</a> and as <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/100-women-army-ranger-school/">Rangers and special operators</a>, they’ll continue to do so. </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-to-look-unattractive-is-downright-morale-breaking-and-should-be-considered-treason">‘To look unattractive… is downright morale-breaking and should be considered treason’</h2> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="2560" height="1707" loading="lazy" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-253041" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=768&h=512 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=1536&h=1024 1536w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=2048&h=1366 2048w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=675&h=450 675w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=990&h=660 990w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=600&h=400 600w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=1254&h=836 1254w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=1035&h=690 1035w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=324&h=216 324w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=606&h=404 606w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=1341&h=894 1341w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=1128&h=752 1128w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=1041&h=694 1041w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=280&h=187 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=1440&h=960 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=289&h=193 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=370&h=247 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=308&h=205 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/17/2419105-scaled.jpg?w=50&h=33 50w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">U.S. Marine Corps Col. Todd P. Simmons, commanding officer of 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) speaks to Marines with the Female Engagement Team (FET) at Fort Pickett, Va., Feb. 21, 2016. The FET participated in the training in preparation for a future deployment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Koby I. Saunders / 22 Marine Expeditionary Unit / Released)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The history of the U.S. military is filled with examples of women being treated as second-class citizens for simply wanting to serve their country. <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-fought-in-the-civil-war-1402680/" target="_blank">Hundreds</a> of women disguised themselves as men to enlist during the Civil War. Sometimes they passed for years, and a few even <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html" target="_blank">remained</a> as men for the rest of their lives and drew veterans’ pensions. Some who were discovered serving as men were <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2021/03/women-who-dressed-as-men-and-made-history/" target="_blank">imprisoned</a>, including the <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/history/womens-history-medal-of-honor-mary-edwards-walker/">only woman</a> ever to have received the Medal of Honor. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">When World War I arrived, women <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/women" target="_blank">went to work</a> at a time when it <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-history-of-womens-work-and-wages-and-how-it-has-created-success-for-us-all/" target="_blank">wasn’t normal</a>, or socially acceptable, for middle-class women to work outside the Victorian “domestic sphere.” Women went from wearing organ-displacing <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.famsf.org/blog/corsets-context-history" target="_blank">corsets</a> to Army or Red Cross <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2011/09/women-in-uniform-world-war-i-edition.html" target="_blank">uniforms</a> almost overnight, though they were barred from active-duty status. Only the reserves were open to them. Notably, the Navy allowed women to enlist as <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/yeomen-f-register-to-vote.htm#_ednref2" target="_blank">clerks</a> — one of the earliest examples of “<a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/equal-pay-act-1963" target="_blank">equal pay for equal work</a>” — and receive the same wages as a man. All of this before they even had the right to vote. The 19th Amendment only passed after WWI ended.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">And while many white women served as <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://e-anca.org/History/Topics-in-ANC-History/Contributions-of-the-US-Army-Nurse-Corps-in-WWI" target="_blank">nurses</a> (female doctors were banned) on the front lines of WWI, Black women <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Blog/Post/10832/Commemorating-the-Nurses-of-the-1918-Influenza-Pandemic" target="_blank">weren’t allowed</a> such privilege, though the military later accepted them into the ranks after the Spanish Flu created a dire need for more nurses, albeit in segregated quarters. Later, in World War II, Black nurses were relegated to providing care for <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism" target="_blank">German POWs</a>. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Women returned to traditionally masculine jobs to support the WWII effort. This time they had more options. They became <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.npr.org/2010/03/09/123773525/female-wwii-pilots-the-original-fly-girls" target="_blank">pilots</a>, mechanics, and worked in <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.history.com/news/women-world-war-ii-factories-photos" target="_blank">shipyards</a>, ammunition factories, though with <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ3Pjnj1OOg&t=0s" target="_blank">strict oversight </a>on beauty and curves. Part of their jobs revolved around making sure they looked pretty at work. As one male soldier <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://warhawkairmuseum.org/blog/the-patriotism-of-beauty-grooming-fashion-during-wwii/#:~:text=Keep%20Your%20Beauty%20on%20Duty,and%20should%20be%20considered%20treason." target="_blank">wrote</a> in 1941, for women “to look unattractive these days is downright morale-breaking and should be considered treason.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Women had proved they could thrive in areas that would have been unthinkable before– the military and the workforce. But after the end of WWII, the women who wanted to stay in the workforce were <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-work/" target="_blank">called</a> “unlovely women,” accused of being man-haters and “suffering from penis envy.” Employers <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.history.com/news/women-world-war-ii-factories-photos" target="_blank">wanted men</a> for work, not women, regardless of their skill and competence.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-we-weren-t-supposed-to-take-her-out-on-missions-but-we-had-to-because-there-was-no-other-medic">‘We weren’t supposed to take her out [on missions] but we had to because there was no other medic’</h2> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="1632" height="2464" loading="lazy" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-253120" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg 1632w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=768&h=1160 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=1017&h=1536 1017w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=1356&h=2048 1356w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=298&h=450 298w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=132&h=200 132w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=437&h=660 437w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=265&h=400 265w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=554&h=836 554w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=457&h=690 457w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=143&h=216 143w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=268&h=404 268w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=592&h=894 592w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=498&h=752 498w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=460&h=694 460w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=280&h=423 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=1440&h=2174 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=289&h=436 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=370&h=559 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=308&h=465 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/81207.jpg?w=33&h=50 33w" sizes="(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Army Spc. Monica Brown in Khost province, Afghanistan. Brown is the second woman since World War II to earn a Silver Star for combat bravery.</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">In 2010, Kate Mannion was on a deployment she “shouldn’t have been on,” but it wasn’t all that different from the experience of another woman, Pfc. <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/unsung-heroes-the-female-soldier-who-provided-crucial-medical-treatment-under-mortar-fire/">Monica Lin Brown</a>. She shouldn’t have been on her unit’s patrol “outside the wire” during their 2007 deployment to Afghanistan, either. But the other medic, a male, was sick, and the unit needed someone to take care of soldiers if they were wounded on the battlefield. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“We weren’t supposed to take her out [on missions] but we had to because there was no other medic,” <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://coffeeordie.com/women-silver-star/" target="_blank">her platoon leader</a> recalled later. “By regulations, you’re not supposed to,” but Brown “was one of the guys, mixing it up, clearing rooms, doing everything that anybody else was doing.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Brown became the second woman to receive the Silver Star after responding to an improvised explosive device and enemy fire. She ran through vicious Taliban gunfire and saved two lives before she was subsequently pulled off patrols. Her presence in the fight attracted unwanted attention from leadership. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Mannion had a similar experience. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“There was a period when we got pulled back to base,” she said. “They couldn’t decide if we could be out there or not.” Amidst trying to work with locals and coordinating humanitarian efforts, Kate said, “we had to wait while leadership debated letting us back out. They didn’t want to let women leave the wire. We knew what we were doing wasn’t technically allowed.” </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-they-were-surprised-and-curious-about-us">‘They were surprised and curious about us’</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Future wartime successes may depend partly on exposing all-male partner nation forces to female U.S. military service members. Many <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/map-shows-places-world-where-us-military-operates-180970997/" target="_blank">nations</a> where U.S. forces train, especially in Asia and the Middle East, <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://giwps.georgetown.edu/the-index/" target="_blank">rank low</a> when it comes to women’s rights and women holding positions of authority. And while the U.S. military is still overwhelmingly male, female generals <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_biden-names-2-women-generals-lead-military-commands/6203056.html" target="_blank">currently command</a> both U.S. Transportation Command and U.S. Southern Command, and service women’s numbers are expected to <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://luskin.ucla.edu/panel-highlights-growing-presence-women-military" target="_blank">grow</a>. </p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="2560" height="1492" loading="lazy" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-253121" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=768&h=448 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1536&h=895 1536w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=2048&h=1194 2048w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=772&h=450 772w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=343&h=200 343w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1132&h=660 1132w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=686&h=400 686w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1434&h=836 1434w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1184&h=690 1184w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=371&h=216 371w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=693&h=404 693w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1534&h=894 1534w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1290&h=752 1290w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1191&h=694 1191w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=280&h=163 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=1440&h=839 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=289&h=168 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=370&h=216 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=308&h=180 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/5693772-scaled.jpg?w=50&h=29 50w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Female Engagement Team (FET) converse and laugh with the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army Quick Reaction Force FET members at a joint question and answer session during subject matter expert exchange between the two countries August 7, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Shaiyla B. Hakeem)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">One active-duty Marine, who spoke with Task & Purpose on condition of anonymity since she was not authorized to speak to reporters, witnessed this dynamic firsthand during a 2018 FET deployment to Indonesia. As part of their training, the FET and U.S. and Indonesian infantry Marines hiked seven miles daily, mostly through rural villages. “The locals came out to watch us,” she said. “I remember a little girl ran up to me one day. I kneeled down to say hello and let her touch my short hair. I think she was surprised to see a woman doing a man’s job.” She noted that the Indonesian Marines didn’t have any female Marines. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The FET’s involvement with jungle warfare training challenged any assumptions the all-male Indonesian Marines had about women. “They were surprised and curious about us,” she said. “Initially they were really hesitant to interact. But towards the end of the training, they were much more comfortable around us and really friendly.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Until just last year, the Indonesian military subjected female recruits to abusive “<a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesian-army-says-has-stopped-virginity-tests-female-cadets-2021-08-11/" target="_blank">virginity tests</a>” as a way of determining their “morality.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Dispelling harmful gender beliefs, like the idea that a woman’s leadership ability or level of respect hinges on <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pseudoscience-virginity-testing-hymenoplasty/620089/" target="_blank">virginity</a> — or <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/slut-bitch-dykejoan-of-arc-and-the-modern-military-woman?ref=scroll" target="_blank">any part</a> of her sexuality —  may seem irrelevant. But most women have to work to be <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4NCkjz-c0" target="_blank">taken seriously</a>, and military women are <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/how-we-found-out-marines-united-study/">no exception</a>. It’s not enough to wear a uniform. People, including some military men in friendly nations, have to actually see them perform to understand their capabilities. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">That seems to be the crux of women in service. Most have to work hard just to be accepted, whether they’re in combat arms or not. Even the last Marine Commandant said as much to during a 2017 <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/17-19_03-14-17.pdf" target="_blank">congressional hearing</a>: “How much more do the females of our Corps have to do to be accepted?” Gen. Robert Neller asked at the time. “Was it enough <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.marines.mil/News/News-Display/Article/637723/be-brief-be-bold-be-gone-a-decade-later-maj-megan-m-mcclungs-legacy-lives-on/" target="_blank">when Major Megan McClung</a> was killed by an IED in Ramadi or Captain Jennifer Harris killed when her helicopter was shot down while she was flying blood from Baghdad to Fallujah surgical or Corporals Jennifer Parcell and Hally Ann Sherrod and Ramona Valdez, all killed by the hands of our enemies? What is it going to take for you to accept these Marines as Marines?” </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-fets-better-to-have-and-not-need-than-need-and-not-have">FETs: Better to have and not need than need and not have</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip">When Marine FET leader 1st Lt. Alex Busch arrived at her unit prior to overseas deployment, she was surprised to learn there wasn’t a FET, nor were there plans to develop one. So she dug up email addresses to prior FET members and created her own. But some people dismissed her plan and questioned why she even felt the need to integrate with infantry Marines. There was no need to be tactical. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“The infantry staff are the most supportive of us,” she told Task & Purpose. “If commanders can have an extra asset they can call on, especially if you’re a <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://news.usni.org/2017/05/25/11th-meu-contingency-ops-crisis-response-bread-butter" target="_blank">crisis response</a> unit, why would people not want us to do this?” </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Developing early relationships with infantry counterparts helps prepare everyone for contingencies, she said. “We need to integrate and integrate early. We have to plan for everything.”</p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="2560" height="1707" loading="lazy" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-253117" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=768&h=512 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=1536&h=1024 1536w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=2048&h=1366 2048w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=675&h=450 675w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=990&h=660 990w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=600&h=400 600w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=1254&h=836 1254w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=1035&h=690 1035w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=324&h=216 324w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=606&h=404 606w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=1341&h=894 1341w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=1128&h=752 1128w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=1041&h=694 1041w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=280&h=187 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=1440&h=960 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=289&h=193 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=370&h=247 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=308&h=205 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077216-scaled.jpg?w=50&h=33 50w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">U.S. Marines with the Female Engagement Team attached to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participate in a brief during a live-fire training event on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, March 2, 2022. Members of the Female Engagement Team attached to the MEU participated in live-fire training to build and sharpen their skills in combat marksmanship held by Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Armando Elizalde)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">She pointed out that there’s no concrete guidance on how or when units should create and utilize FETs, even though requests for FET support have been common <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2015/08/05/marine-corps-revives-female-engagement-team-mission/" target="_blank">over the years</a>. Indeed, Marine spokesman Capt. Andrew Wood confirmed the ad-hoc nature of FETs: “Female Engagement Teams are task-organized units established by unit commanders based on mission requirements,” he said.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Still, a FET member who was involved in the chaotic evacuation of <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/history/army-soldiers-stories-kabul-withdrawal/">U.S. forces and Afghan allies from Afghanistan in 2021</a>, believes the Corps should make FETs more permanent. There was no FET on her deployment until a couple of weeks before heading into Afghanistan, despite non-combatant evacuations being a unit <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Amphibious%20Ready%20Group%20And%20Marine%20Expeditionary%20Unit%20Overview.pdf" target="_blank">mission</a>, she said. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The Marine’s unit quickly assembled a group of women dedicated to searching Afghan women and children amidst what would prove to be a harrowing and <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-killed-afghanistan-kabul-airport-names/">tragic</a> mission. But searching people for explosives isn’t the same as an airport security pat-down — it’s intensely invasive. The team was thrown together last-minute, eliminating any opportunities to train under stress. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“If we’d done this sooner, we wouldn’t have had some of the problems we had,” the Marine said on condition of anonymity. “We had to learn personalities and build trust as a team. Figuring that out in Afghanistan just added more stress.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">”If I’d known I was going to be on the FET before deployment I would have taken advantage of any downtime to train with the grunts,” she said. “Get in the training. Make it work.” </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-controversy-continues">The ‘controversy’ continues</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip">The debate around women in combat has raged ferociously for years. But in 2022, it seems like women serving in or close to infantry units is shaping up to be a new normal. Controversy remains, though: <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/women-in-combat-five-year-status-update" target="_blank">gender biases</a> have been noted, and some men <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-special-operations-women-survey/">don’t want to work</a> with women. The Air Force recently came under fire for <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/special-operations-women/">trying to admit</a> a woman through its special operations pipeline, despite her own desire to quit. For some nations though, controversy about women in combat is a luxury they <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukraine-women-military/">can’t afford</a>. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Gender integration expert <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://breakingintothebrotherhood.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Beth Wolny</a>, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel, is optimistic about the future. “History wins,” she told Task & Purpose. “Time and time again, the services fight about letting women into more positions. But then the next conflict comes and they go into those roles, and they do well.” </p> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img width="2560" height="1707" loading="lazy" src="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?strip=all&quality=85" alt="" class="wp-image-253118" srcset="https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=768&h=512 768w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=1536&h=1024 1536w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=2048&h=1366 2048w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=675&h=450 675w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=300&h=200 300w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=990&h=660 990w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=600&h=400 600w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=1254&h=836 1254w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=1035&h=690 1035w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=324&h=216 324w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=606&h=404 606w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=1341&h=894 1341w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=1128&h=752 1128w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=1041&h=694 1041w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=280&h=187 280w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=1440&h=960 1440w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=289&h=193 289w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=370&h=247 370w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=308&h=205 308w, https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/18/7077218-scaled.jpg?w=50&h=33 50w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /> <figcaption class="wp-element-caption">U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Autumn M. Duckworth, a communications navigations counter systems technician with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fires at targets during a live-fire training event on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, March 2, 2022. Members of the Female Engagement Team attached to the MEU participated in live-fire training to build and sharpen their skills in combat marksmanship held by Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Armando Elizalde)</figcaption> </figure> <p class="article-paragraph skip">She noted that in 2015, Marine leadership distilled a thousand pages of gender integration studies into just four, omitting important nuances. A shortage of willing male and female volunteers in select specialties made gathering accurate data challenging. Some of the male volunteers Wolny interviewed for her own research deemed the study “unfair,” she said.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip"><a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://breakingintothebrotherhood.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/the-infantry-officers-course/" target="_blank">Prior to 2012,</a> passing the grueling combat endurance test at Marine Infantry Officer Course wasn’t a graduation prerequisite. That requirement emerged the same year women were allowed into the course. A longtime advocate for equal physical standards in combat arms, Wolny wonders why the Marine Corps has resisted gender-neutral standards for combat arms. The <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-kristen-griest-acft-article-debate/">Army, meanwhile, is</a> still figuring that out. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Marine Corps University professor Bradford Wineman sees gender integration as a critical part of successful modern recruiting. </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">”Patriotism and republicanism alone aren’t bringing people into the military like they used to,” Wineman said, noting that outdated policies, and a “too little too late” diversity and inclusion effort, as contributing to impending recruiting doom. “Recruiters are working 70-hour weeks just to get people to the depot. That’s not sustainable over the next few decades.”</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“Contrary to the conceptions of many male Marines, women don’t enter the service with the mission of <a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-gen-female-infantry-destroyed/">destroying the Marine Corps</a>,” said Wineman. “Women want to serve for the same reasons that they do.” </p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">Perhaps more than anything else, the 2015 gender integration study highlighted the <a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sdut-marines-report-to-commandant-women-in-combat-2015sep23-htmlstory.html" target="_blank">lack of physical standards</a> within combat arms. And it showed that being “heavier helped when marching under load, and challenges like equipment-fit and carrying heavy weight affected shorter female and male Marines in similar ways,” Wolny said.</p> <p class="article-paragraph skip">“Women will play a critical role in the next conflict, not in spite of the new roles they fill, but because of them,” she said.</p> <h2 class="has-text-align-center wp-block-heading" id="h-">+++</h2> <p class="article-paragraph skip"><strong><em>Kelsey Baker</em></strong><em> is a journalist and a former active duty Marine officer. </em><a rel="nofollow noreferrer" href="https://www.twitter.com/bzgorda" target="_blank"><em>Follow her on Twitter @BzGorda</em></a></p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading">What’s new on <em>Task & Purpose</em></h2> <ul class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>A photo apparently showing Russian troops </strong><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-soldiers-stuck-elevator-ukraine-viral/"><strong>stranded in an elevator is going viral</strong></a></li><li><strong>A Marine special ops commander explains why </strong><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-invasion-ukraine-strategic-failures/"><strong>Russia’s stalled advance in Ukraine is no surprise</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-ukraine-resistance-support/"><strong>How the US can beat Russia</strong></a><strong> in Ukraine without firing a shot</strong></li><li><strong>‘My training took over’ — </strong><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-security-forces-car-chase-florida/"><strong>This Air Force cop went on a 100 mph car chase</strong></a><strong> to arrest suspect</strong></li><li><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/ukraine-russian-invasion-american-veterans/"><strong>In search of a just war:</strong></a><strong> Why American veterans are answering a call to serve in Ukraine</strong></li></ul> <p class="article-paragraph skip"><strong>Want to write for Task & Purpose? </strong><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/task-purpose-writing-pitching/"><strong>Click here</strong></a><strong>. 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