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Thread: Can females be gunners?
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02-15-09, 04:55 PM #16
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02-15-09, 04:55 PM #17
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02-15-09, 05:01 PM #18
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02-15-09, 05:10 PM #19
Here you go. Maybe this will explain a little more. The picture will probably be different by the time you hit the fleet, but the action in Iraq has slowed down enough (in Marine AOs) that people are coming out of the woodwork trying to get their cherry popped and say they did grunt-work. I say good on them because the pros are needed in Afghan and elsewhere.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/s...raq_090708.php
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02-15-09, 05:33 PM #20
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02-16-09, 06:29 AM #21
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02-16-09, 09:28 AM #22
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02-16-09, 09:53 AM #23
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02-16-09, 10:55 PM #24
I was a gunner in Iraq. I'm a field MP and we did convoy security. I didn't have to volunteer. They just put me up there and I was more than happy to do it.
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02-17-09, 01:36 AM #25
Semper Fi. That's what we're talking about. What gun/vic did you man?
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02-19-09, 04:13 PM #26
My advice is stay away from the turret. Its stressful and way overrated. You wait to get blown up, sand always gets in your eyes some how, you stand the whole time, and a lot of responsibility with roes and such. One burst could get you 15 to life. I never saw action in the turret other than popping flares at cars or waving a red flag to warn cars they were getting to close. All of my firefights were during foot patrols. Its rare to fire your weapon while in the turret now, especially with pressure plate ieds and new enemy tactics. But if thats what you want to then good on you. Always ask about the crew serves, assemble and disaseble every chance you get, know all the mg knowledge, always ask for range time. So when a convoy does pop up youll know the gun like the back of your hand and no one could ever say your not qualified to stand in the turret
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02-19-09, 07:24 PM #27
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02-20-09, 10:57 AM #28
I agree with the part of females being better (in general) for shooting on the range. I saw it a lot when I was stationed at PISC. They do tend ti listen better.
However, when it comes to crewserved weapons on top of a vehicle, I will have to disagree. I was born an 0331 many back in 1986. The lack of training/experiance in my main issue. 0331's spend a lot of time on the range learning all they can about employing their weapons effectively. Especially the Wpns Company machinegunners. I was in 4 seperate Wpns Company's through the years and we trained hard prior to deployments to be able to employ our weapons in the most adverse climate. I used to tale my guys out when I knew it was going to rain and we would train. Would do the same when I knew the heat was going to be the hottest. Or when I knew the winter would be at its coldest. All this helps to build confidence. Even without training in the extremes of the weather, I would never allow anyone to just volunteer to jump up in the turret. I had plenty of people wanting to do that in Iraq. I always told them no. Even told my BC once I didn't want him up there because he lacked experiance. He looked at me and laughed and said "your an a$$ Gunny". I told him yes i was but the safety of me and my Marines comes before anyone else desires to say they manned a gun in combat. We went way back to when I was a LCpl and he was a fresh butter bar.
I have no problem with a woman being in the turret in combat provided she has proved to be effective during training. That turret can be a real biotch sometimes. Besides, it would make for some good eyeball liberty with a female in the turret and you were sitting in the back seat. Chill out people.....just joking.
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02-20-09, 03:23 PM #29
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02-20-09, 07:15 PM #30
Having coached a few lady Marines across the range I can say the gonads, heuvos or what ever has to do with marksmanship. Some women are outstanding at marksmanship and some suck at it. Just like the guys. There is no way you can say that because they have a split tail they are naturally better or worse marksman. I just want to see a female hump the reciever for a .50 to the top of fuji. Saw a woman once throw a super single into the back of a 5 ton. Wouldn't want to run into her in a dark alley.
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