Posted on Oct 12, 2022
Marine drill instructors’ crude sexual remarks prompt boot camp visits
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Marine drill instructors’ crude sexual remarks prompt boot camp visits
By Hope Hodge Seck
Oct 11, 11:03 AM
Recruits execute drill movements during final drill practice at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, Sept. 12, 2022. (Lance Cpl. Bradley Williams/Marine Corps)
When Lt. Gen. Kevin Iiams, commander of Marine Corps Training and Education Command, opened a draft version of a Marine Corps-commissioned report on boot camp gender integration in spring 2021, he was incensed at what he found.
Inside the University of Pittsburgh report ― which ultimately would stretch to more than 700 pages and cover topics ranging from recruits’ injury rates to boot camp staffing challenges ― one annex grabbed Iiams’ attention. It detailed all the “sexually demeaning and gender-based language” described by drill instructors and recruits in focus groups the university had run.
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Marine drill instructors’ crude sexual remarks prompt boot camp visits
By Hope Hodge Seck
Oct 11, 11:03 AM
Recruits execute drill movements during final drill practice at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, Sept. 12, 2022. (Lance Cpl. Bradley Williams/Marine Corps)
When Lt. Gen. Kevin Iiams, commander of Marine Corps Training and Education Command, opened a draft version of a Marine Corps-commissioned report on boot camp gender integration in spring 2021, he was incensed at what he found.
Inside the University of Pittsburgh report ― which ultimately would stretch to more than 700 pages and cover topics ranging from recruits’ injury rates to boot camp staffing challenges ― one annex grabbed Iiams’ attention. It detailed all the “sexually demeaning and gender-based language” described by drill instructors and recruits in focus groups the university had run.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT Charlie Lee SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] Sgt (Join to see) SPC Michael Terrell CPL Douglas Chrysler A1C Medrick "Rick" DeVaney GySgt Jack Wallace CPL LaForest Gray SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM PV2 Larry Sellnow SPC Gary C. SPC (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland SGT Jim Arnold Amn Dale Preisach
Marine drill instructors’ crude sexual remarks prompt boot camp visits
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Sometimes negative words can be far reaching and severe to others!
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM well said and agreed my friend my friend, no time for sexual remarks.
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SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM
CMSgt Marcus Falleaf I remember that! But names will never harm me!
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Hard to be effective in the kill or be killed profession when words hurt you - send Iliams to Ukraine and he'll find that the weaponry there doesn't discriminate against feelings
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
CSM Chuck Stafford roger that Brother Chuck, well said and of the most profound.
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MAJ Byron Oyler
War is hell and I bet we lose a good 1/3 of SM to mental health the next time we are in a really bad one.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL Drill instructors cussed at me, they yelled at me, they showed us no mercy, they gave us hell. I survived it all the same as Marines have been for two hundred years. They were toughening us up for what may be coming later on. If it hurts your feelings that bad that someone does this to you maybe, you need to look into another line of work. It's all part of earning the title, "Marine." If you going to crack better there and get discharged than in a fox hole or a combat zone where you could get others killed because you can't handle stress.
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