Women in Combat Could Hurt Retention, Marine Study Suggests

Enlistees indicate readiness to leave corps if women ‘involuntarily’ posted in combat positions
Gen. James Mattis watches as Gen. Michael Hagee leaves in a Blackhawk helicopter in Iraq on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2003. (AP)

Nearly one in four males in the U.S. Marine Corps said they would leave the service if women were involuntarily posted in combat positions, according to a little-known survey commissioned by Marine Corps leaders and obtained by the Free Beacon.

Unfit for Combat

Marines, Army shrinking force size under budgetary restraints
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The United States Marine Corps is set to shed more than 20,000 active duty positions in the coming years and have already commenced a process meant to force some senior officers into an early retirement.

Bipartisan Group Calls for Marine’s Homecoming

Marine was arrested in Mexico for trying to legally register a shotgun
Jon Hammar / Facebook

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R., Fla.) and 68 of her fellow members of Congress sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging them to take diplomatic action to ensure the safety and homecoming of Jon Hammar, a U.S. citizen and Marine veteran being held in a Mexican prison.