Females allowed COMBAT ENGINEER MOS?

[Eng MOS Sponsor]

Example of female engineer operating outside the wire:
April 11, 2006

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Lance Cpl. Juana NavarroArellano, 24, of Ceres, Calif., died April 8 from wounds received while supporting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. She was assigned to 9th Engineer Support Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Okinawa, Japan.



LCpl NavarroArellano, while not a combat engineer, was on an engineering mission outside the wire when she was struck, and killed, by hostile fire. She was a bulk fuel specialist.

http://www.defenselink.mil/Releases/...ReleaseID=9436

[JenniferC1371]

I am a Combat Engineer 1371, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, A Co. 1st Platoon YOU CAN BE A COMBAT ENGINEER, there are combat engineer females in my platoon, you just cannot leave the wire, which means you cannot be involved in any combat arms missions.

I went to Fallujah, Iraq from March 2006 - September 2006 and left the wire at LEAST twice a week to fill IED holes on the roads and build SWA Hunt for grunts...I'm thinkin' us females CAN leave the wire. Now as far as patrolling with grunts for the sake of patrolling, no, females won't do that. Generally only Division Combat Engineers will go out with them and women can't be in the Division (CEB). I say generally, because my last deployment was a MEU and we had 1/5 with us, who ironically supported us while we did a mission in Djibouti, so you may work directly with them under some unlikely circumstances, but as I just said, it's really unlikely.

[taxidan]

Women are allowed to be combat engineers in the Marine Corps. However they are limited to what units they can be put in. Division units, or those that serve in direct support of the infantry, do not accept women. I am pretty sure this is true of any construction/utilities MOS. You will be stuck in a Support or Air unit.


Sgt. 1371

[Radiofantry]

Dan, you just bumped a thread that is almost 5 years old. The original poster is in the Naval Academy.

[Blutic]

Old thread.