Oh boy...
More Cultural Marxist lunacy:
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Historic Marine base gets 1st-ever female general</font></div>
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) â€" For the first time in its 96-year history, a
female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot
at South Carolina's Parris Island.
Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds,
who is also known as the first female Marine to ever hold a command
position in a battle zone, takes charge Friday at the installation south
of Beaufort.
Parris Island graduates about 20,000 Marines
annually and is the only site where female enlisted Marines are trained
to enter the service.
Reynolds is a native of Baltimore and a 1986 graduate of the Naval Academy. She has worn the Marine Corps uniform for 25 years.
She is taking over from Brig. Gen. Frederick Padilla, who is taking charge of the 3rd Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan.
In
her new position, Reynolds also will be in charge of the Marines'
Eastern Recruiting Region, which covers the 23 states east of the
Mississippi River.
As a one-star general, Reynolds becomes only
the third female general officer in the more than 200,000-member Marine
Corps. The service has two two-star female generals, one in the active
duty ranks and another in the Marine Corps Reserve.
Overall, there
are 12,339 enlisted females in the Marines, 108 warrant officers and
1,224 officers, according to Marine Corps figures. On its Parris Island
website, the service said training for men and women is identical, and
that roughly 2,400 female recruits go through it every year.
Reynolds
trained as a communications officer and commanded Marines from platoon
to battalion levels in her more than 20 years in uniform.
She has
been posted in Okinawa, Japan; Quantico, Va., Iraq and Afghanistan, and
was in command of the Marine Recruiting Station in Harrisburg, Pa.
She also worked with at the headquarters of the Marine Corps in its communications and computer division in Washington, D.C.
Reynolds'
last posting was in charge of the Headquarters Group for the 1st Marine
Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
While serving
a yearlong tour of duty in Afghanistan, she oversaw five Marine
battalions and military company from Bahrain. While there, she took a
base that had "fed, housed and equipped more than 10,000 Marines and
expanded the base to handle an additional 10,000 Marines and sailors,"
the website for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said. The site added
that the command slot position meant she was "recognized as the first
female Marine to command battle space."
Before her time at Camp Pendleton, Reynolds was a division chief with the Joint Staff at the Pentagon.
Reynolds
also has attended the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Va., the
Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and the Army War College in
Carlisle, Pa.
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