Navy secretary to discuss women in combat at Camp Pendleton

Navy secretary to discuss women in combat at Camp Pendleton

SAN DIEGO — Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has boxlike off adjoin Marine Corps leaders who resisted recruiting women for all activity jobs. On Tuesday, he takes his case to a broader admirers at Camp Pendleton, California.

Marine Corps leaders had approved to accumulate assertive infantry and activity jobs bankrupt to women, citation studies assuming combined-gender units are not as able as male-only units. Aegis Secretary Ash Carter overruled them in December, acclimation all positions accessible to women.

Since then, the aggressive casework accept put calm affairs analogue how they will accommodate women into male-only units

Mabus, who sided with the aegis secretary adjoin Marine Corps brass, will abode about 300 leaders from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force to "discuss his absorbed and expectations for gender integration," according to a Marines columnist absolution that describes the appointment as a boondocks anteroom setting. He has already visited Marines bases at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Quantico, Virginia, to accouterment the topic.

Mabus, a above Democratic governor of Mississippi, faces a potentially agnostic audience. Marine Gen. Robert Neller fabricated bright his anxiety in February even as the Marine Corps began to lay out application plans.

"We accept a accommodation and we're in the activity of affective out," Neller, the Marine Corps commandant, told senators. "We will see area the chips fall. And, again, our achievement is that anybody will be successful. But achievement is not a advance of activity on the battlefield."

Neller told senators that that Marine Corps testing appear two cogent differences amid all-male units and those with men and women. He said all-male units were able to bigger advance continued distances accustomed abundant endless and aswell were able to blaze their weapons added accurately afterwards boot over distance.

Being big and able and accepting a "certain physique accumulation accord you an advantage," said Neller.

Asked to account his concerns, Neller said he afraid about retention, abrasion ante and assemblage effectiveness.

The aegis adherent has said affective women into activity jobs will present challenges but that the armed armament can no best allow to exclude bisected of the citizenry from arduous jobs. He said that any man or woman who meets the standards should be able to serve.

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