The culture of misogyny in the U. Marine Corps that spawned the type of behavior exposed in the Marines United Facebook page traces back to boot camp, where women learn to put up with sexual harassment from their supposed brothers in arms, a former Marine veteran said Wednesday. Butner and Lance Cpl. Marisa Woytek, both of whom had their images posted without consent to the closed Facebook page, appeared at the hearing to explain how female Marines have been targeted, exploited and endangered by the scandal. The secret Facebook group had a following of over 30, male service members. Users shared nude images of active duty female Marines, veterans and other women, some of which were taken without the victim's knowledge and shared without their consent. It is not known how many service members were involved or are under investigation. Clark Carpenter said. The scandal prompted an investigation into hundreds of Marines and the U.
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Changes to recruit training could be coming, Commandant Gen. Robert Neller told lawmakers Tuesday in a tense session about the ongoing investigation into whether Marines viewed nude pictures of female troops, veterans and civilians and harassed those women. A spokesman for Neller, Lt. Eric Dent, declined to say whether the evaluation of recruit training to which Neller referred may include desegregating boot camp, so that men and women would be integrated during the week program.
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February 5, That deadline was set by Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump. Female Marines have trained for decades at the camp — but not at platoon level. In the past, women have been deployed in support roles while combat units remained all-male. That is changing across the U. But change has been much slower in the Marines, as Corps commanders say integrated units are less effective at some battlefield tasks.
Sixty female recruits have arrived at the Marine Corps ' all-male training site, where they'll complete boot camp in a coed company for the first time in the base's year history. Martin Harris, a spokesman for the training depot. The women arrived in San Diego on Wednesday, stepping off white buses and onto the iconic yellow footprints that mark the start of the training that transforms new recruits from civilians into Marines. Male and female drill instructors were there when the women and men arrived at the base. Anne Margret Frazier, one of the female recruits, told NBC 7 San Diego that being among the first women to train at the historically all-male base felt empowering. The year-old recruit's father served in the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps has been directed by Congress to make both of its entry-level training sites coed in the next five to eight years. Now, recruits at San Diego are following the same model, with the female platoon being trained by women drill instructors, Harris said. The Marine Corps announced in December that three women graduated from the West Coast drill instructor school to train the incoming female recruits.
