Military Review English Edition March-April 2015 | Page 47

WOMEN IN COMBAT

still closed to women, they do not get a second try
because this delays their job training and pushes back
Marines waiting their first turn. She and all the other
non-infantry men who are not allowed a second try
are discriminated against based on their MOS, not
their sex. Letting her try the course again, which
then Commandant Gen. James F. Amos did after
Santangello published her article, was applying a double standard. She asks that the rules and standards be
ignored and that she get special treatment because she
is a woman. That is quite a start for an officer claiming
to want equal