I am NOT a sexist or a bigot. However, as someone who went through gender integrated basic training at Ft. Jackson, SC, I can tell you this about it.
IT DOES NOT WORK.
The idea behind it was that men and women will work together, so why not train them together? However, IT IS NOT THAT SIMPLE.
You can't put men and women together in a place where they are temporarily deprived of all priveleges and then tell them they can't fraternize and expect everyone to comply. It's not going to happen. Yes, maybe it's a matter of self control, but it's different when you know what someone is going to do.
Another thing is physical limitations. When the males and females got "smoked" together, they had to end it early because of the females, so it wasn't really instilling discpline into the males.
The Marines are the only branch doing it right when it comes to basic/boot camp and gender. Not only is it segragated, but only male DI's train male recruits, while female DI's train females.
2007-07-31
11:25:17
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