The document discusses integrating women into infantry roles in the US Marine Corps. It notes that a RAND study found women would have higher attrition rates and serve less time. Integrating women would require increased spending on recruiting and training to maintain infantry numbers. It also discusses challenges with facilities, equipment fit, and potential impacts on unit cohesion seen in other contexts like fire and police departments. While the Secretary of Defense ordered all infantry roles open to women in 2015, the Marines expressed concerns about the results of their task force experiments that found all-male groups outperformed integrated groups in 93 of 134 tasks.

1. Women in the Infantry
By Brice Hatcher

2.  USMC contracted RAND Group conduct to an analysis of integrating
women in combat.
 Women are likely to have higher attrition rate and serve less time.
Therefore, to keep infantry at target strength increased spending on
advertising, recruiting, and training will be necessary.
 Additional costs would be necessary to overhaul facilities for two genders.
 In fire departments, poorly fitting gear was an issue in over 70% of women.
Unit cohesion between men and women suffered and led to 8 law suits at
the NYPD that we studied.
 In police departments men tended to be overbearing. Men were
overprotective.

3.  Currently females have their own battalion at boot camp.
 They have their own facilities and drill instructors.
 Women conduct different physical fitness tests than men.

4.  JOHNSON: In 93 out of 134 tasks that we tested across the MOS's, the all-
male groups outperformed the integrated groups.
 COLONEL ANNE WEINBERG: I would characterize this as there is more to
be learned.
 BOWMAN: Faster and more lethal - that can mean the difference between
life and death. The Marine Corps synopsis included this quote from a 1992
presidential commission. A military unit at maximum combat effectiveness
is a military unit less likely to suffer casualties

5. Why is this an ethical issue?
 ASH CARTER: And the Department's policy is that all ground combat
positions will be open to women unless rigorous analysis of factual data
shows that the positions must remain closed.
 In 2015, after reading the RAND analysis and studying the results of the
Marines’ integrated task force experiment, he over ruled the Marines and
ordered all infantry jobs open to women.

6. Questions
 Should gender equality be treated the same way in the
military and more traditional business settings?
 An ethical argument can be made for both positions, but we
can only choose one. Is this a lose-lose situation?
 Are there arguments for women in the infantry besides gender
equality?
 Are there possible solutions that have been overlooked?

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