"Pussified" is the new Logo for Boot-Camp Recruits graduating at Parris Island .

[Mongoose]

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14 Apr 2021
Military.com | By Gina Harkins (https://www.military.com/author/gina-harkins)

Four male platoons graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (http://www.military.com/base-guide/marine-corps-recruit-depot-parris-island) in South Carolina as part of a battalion that -- until now -- has trained only women.
Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, completed boot camp with four male and two female platoons, the Marine Corps (https://www.military.com/marine-corps) announced Wednesday. Coed companies have been training at Parris Island since 2019, but this was the first time men have been assigned to 4th Recruit Training Battalion.



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It was also the first time male drill instructors were assigned to the historically all-female battalion.
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Marine recruits training at Parris Island were for decades segregated by gender, with women traditionally assigned solely to 4th Recruit Training Battalion. Papa Company completed their training and graduated from boot camp March 26.

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The Marine Corps has since begun training Parris Island's 15th coed company, said Capt. Bryan McDonnell, a spokesman at the depot.
Capt. Adan Rivera, the company commander, said in a Marine Corps news release that assigning men to 4th Battalion demonstrates that recruits are held to the same standards, regardless of gender.
When a male recruit was told he'd be making history after being assigned to 4th Battalion, he said he didn't think "anybody grasped what was going on."
"We're here to train, let's train," he said in the release.
Both female and male recruits have now been assigned to all four of Parris Island's recruit training battalions.
McDonnell said the 4th Recruit Training Battalion squad bay is smaller than some of the newer living facilities at Parris Island. The Marine Corps tends to see more recruits reporting to boot camp in the summer months following high school graduations. With fewer arriving in the winter months, McDonnell said they had the right number of male and female trainees to assign them to that battalion.
Men and women training in coed companies live in the same barracks, but have separate squad bays with different sleeping and bathing facilities. Training that occurs outside the squad bays is done together.
Platoons are still assigned drill instructors of the same gender as their recruits.
The men with 4th Battalion aren't the only Marine recruits to make history at boot camp this year. Women are currently training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego (http://www.military.com/base-guide/marine-corps-recruit-depot-san-diego) in coed companies for the first time in that base's 100-year history.
The 2020 defense authorization bill directed the Marine Corps to make both of its entry-level training sites coed. The service was given five years to make training coed at Parris Island and eight years at San Diego.

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14 Apr 2021
Military.com | By Gina Harkins (https://www.military.com/author/gina-harkins)

Four male platoons graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (http://www.military.com/base-guide/marine-corps-recruit-depot-parris-island) in South Carolina as part of a battalion that -- until now -- has trained only women.
Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, completed boot camp with four male and two female platoons, the Marine Corps (https://www.military.com/marine-corps) announced Wednesday. Coed companies have been training at Parris Island since 2019, but this was the first time men have been assigned to 4th Recruit Training Battalion.



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It was also the first time male drill instructors were assigned to the historically all-female battalion.
Read Next:500 Marines Will Begin Testing These New PT Uniforms this Summer (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/13/500-marines-will-begin-testing-these-new-pt-uniforms-summer.html)
Marine recruits training at Parris Island were for decades segregated by gender, with women traditionally assigned solely to 4th Recruit Training Battalion. Papa Company completed their training and graduated from boot camp March 26.

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The Marine Corps has since begun training Parris Island's 15th coed company, said Capt. Bryan McDonnell, a spokesman at the depot.
Capt. Adan Rivera, the company commander, said in a Marine Corps news release that assigning men to 4th Battalion demonstrates that recruits are held to the same standards, regardless of gender.
When a male recruit was told he'd be making history after being assigned to 4th Battalion, he said he didn't think "anybody grasped what was going on."
"We're here to train, let's train," he said in the release.
Both female and male recruits have now been assigned to all four of Parris Island's recruit training battalions.
McDonnell said the 4th Recruit Training Battalion squad bay is smaller than some of the newer living facilities at Parris Island. The Marine Corps tends to see more recruits reporting to boot camp in the summer months following high school graduations. With fewer arriving in the winter months, McDonnell said they had the right number of male and female trainees to assign them to that battalion.
Men and women training in coed companies live in the same barracks, but have separate squad bays with different sleeping and bathing facilities. Training that occurs outside the squad bays is done together.
Platoons are still assigned drill instructors of the same gender as their recruits.
The men with 4th Battalion aren't the only Marine recruits to make history at boot camp this year. Women are currently training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego (http://www.military.com/base-guide/marine-corps-recruit-depot-san-diego) in coed companies for the first time in that base's 100-year history.
The 2020 defense authorization bill directed the Marine Corps to make both of its entry-level training sites coed. The service was given five years to make training coed at Parris Island and eight years at San Diego.

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[advanced]

Isn't that nice. There goes our Beloved Corps.

[Cpl Keller]

Everything has a beginning and an end. Those of us who served before all this nonsense started will always remember the true spirit of the Corps.
I think I would be happier if they had just disbanded the Corps entirely, instead of continuing to water it down with all this "feel good" bs.

[USMC 2571]

It's never a good idea to change something for no good reason, just to be changing it. It's actually very ignorant and shortsighted.

[USMC 2571]

It says that the Corps was "directed" to make it coed. Who would know what's best for the Corps besides the Corps? Defense department? Congress? Not likely .

[FoxtrotOscar]

This Social Experiment will lead to disaster...

Just another degradation of the Marines as we knew it...

[advanced]

I fear the day will come when many young Marines will be lost. As tough as Parris Island was back in the day, I've often said it should have been at least 10X's harder because of where they sent us. Now, it appears to be 10X's less than then. S/F

[USMC 2571]

Russ, wait till they have transgender platoons.

[SgtMajUSMCRet]

Imagine the faces on older USMC Vets when these youngsters talk about "I was in 4th Battalion" . We all know that Bn was only for women

[advanced]

You've got that right SgtMaj. In the top photo those Marines sure look pretty in their blues. I could be wrong but someone told me Marines today are issued blues, I couldn't afford them back in the day.

[gkmoz]

Gee! 4th BN. Parris Island sounds almost as bad as being from San Diego boot camp lol :)

[Mongoose]

I saw on the news where there are thousands of Marine Veterans that Boot-Camped at P.I...........that are now self identifying as graduates of S.D. Boot-Camp....just saying....

[USMC 2571]

Billy, what irks me is that the Department of Defense originally wanted them to wear petticoats under the blues. Enough is enough.

[oldtop]

glad I retired when we wore "Dress Blues" instead of today's "Blue Dresses"....

[advanced]

When I was at PI as y'all know we had a week I believe of guard duty. I was given prize duty of guarding the 4th Batt. Those DI's didn't know they had put the fox in the hen house. Of course I never saw any BAM's walking the streets back then so I had to go back to my platoon barracks still hungry, but later..........

[Mongoose]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=34126&stc=1This absolutely resembles our Brother Russ.....

[Marine1955]

By gorge back in boot camp I pulled mess duty for a week and we had to march by the barracks and every day they would holler at us saying hey boys I bet you would like some of this and all we could do is march on... but the one good thing was mess duty at Officer club was great we got the left overs and it was great there .. That was 1973 for me..

[Mongoose]

Just heard on the news that the Marine Corps will start online Boot-Camp in May. Due to the number of Covid Virus cases being reported at MCRD SD and MCRD Parris Island. Recruits will still be required to wear masks while on their PC. They are also required to take their temperature each morning before going online to hear Revile. They are required to talk on the phone personally with the Senior D.I. once a week.
God help these young Marines get through this traumatic ritual to become a Man.....

[oldtop]

I have come to the conclusion that the high school class of 2022 will be the dumbest HS graduates in the history of the country, they will not have set foot in a real classroom...they will also be responsible for the decline in the future birth rate, "on line sex" does not make babies.... just sayin...

[Mongoose]

William, when did graduating High School keep a person from being a Idiot? Just look at Congress......it's full of College Graduates.

[DanM]

Females won the Crucible competition? "The female platoon also "won all the physical events" in the boot camp, with the highest physical and combat fitness test scores throughout, he said."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/female-us-marines-gruelling-crucible-152422516.html

[advanced]

There might just be something 2 this. "Imagine" a new MC with all battalions having Company A standing for the Amazon Company. Of course we all know that when women are close together they all go into the same cycle. They would only attack when they were all on the rag. Devastating, our enemies would all surrender when the smell came close.

[oldtop]

Billy, I have always believed that going to college made people stupid.... as you said, congress is a prime example of this theory...

[etakerns]

The US military has been planning on this coed training for long time. They have been slowly conditioning us to this in books, movies ie…. Aliens ,Starship Troopers etc.
And now here it is. Men slowly being integrated with women in training. Are standards going to drop now to accommodate the training differences in men and women?
This is going to be interesting.

[Mongoose]

Thing is Brothers.....with all this equality conversion and Biden opening the Rainbow Door....that is for you naive Marines, letting the transgender and gays back into the Military. Women Marines won't need us anymore. Can't you just see it.....a female recruit hugs her bunk-mate and says....my poor Sweetie, did that mean D.I. pinch your breast? Let me kiss it and make it well. And, we know the rest of the story. Sure hope that doesn't happen to the male recruits......just saying.....

[advanced]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=34126&stc=1This absolutely resembles our Brother Russ.....
Billy, I can't help it that I still look so young. My guess is that being so young comes from my eating all that good stuff over all those years. As everyone knows, you don't get old when you're eating at the Y.

[Mongoose]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=34157&stc=1Remember these days Russ??

[USMC 2571]

Unbelievable, Billy.

[Mongoose]

Unbelievable, Billy.

But so true, Dave......just ask Russ.....

[advanced]

Well, I did wake up with a fat woman one time. I still have no idea how I got there, I believe she got me drunk and raped me. That's my story and I'm sticking 2 it.

[USMC 2571]

Sounds believable, Russ.

[Mongoose]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=34158&stc=1This is her, Dave....

[USMC 2571]

Can't blame him, Billy.

[Libertydoc]

Being stupid makes you stupid. Admittedly I'm highly over-educated and still shoot pretty well. Time on the yellow footprints makes an indelible mark on one's soul.

[Mongoose]

Those Yellow Footprints will never be forgotten......

[USMC 2571]

They didn't even have them late October 1963, Billy.

[Mongoose]

They didn't even have them late October 1963, Billy.

They did at MCRD SD Dave. Only PI didn't have them.....

[USMC 2571]

In 1963? I thought yellow footprints were a bit later. One of my DIs said neither MCRD had them in '63. I'll have to look it up.to see when they made their debut.

[Mongoose]

http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=34160&stc=1In case you forgot, Dave.....

[USMC 2571]

Thanks, Billy.

[Mongoose]

Don't mention it, Dave. I think people should embrace where they come from, no matter how embarrassing it is....not your fault where you attended Boot-camp, Brother......anyway, PI was the perfect place for you to take Boot-camp. It got you ready for the Air-force.

[USMC 2571]

Hahaha

[Mongoose]

One thing I can attest to. In the Corps, no matter where you trained, we were taught that the best way to protect yourself in Combat, is to protect your Brothers. Never did I witness a Marine say cover me and hear a response......well maybe, where did you take Boot-camp. You want to live longer, keep your Brother's alive....

[advanced]

Amen to that