Katy Perry joins the Marine Corps?
March 21st, 2012 | Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego Marines Pop culture Recruit Recruiting women | Posted by James Sanborn
Check out Katy Perry’s new “Part of Me” music video filmed at Camp Pendleton, Calif. She joins the Marine Corps in what amounts to one big, long, awesome recruiting ad. Its not quite a Marine in dress blues slaying wizards on a chess board, but its a close second.
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If you missed that vintage reference, check out this recruiting commercial from before some of you were born.
Behind the Cover: Female Marines in combat arms battalions
February 13th, 2012 | Behind the Cover Marines women | Posted by Gina Cavallaro
With an exception to a long-standing Pentagon policy, female Marines in the ranks of captain, gunnery sergeant and staff sergeant will be permitted to serve in combat arms units below the division level.
But don’t expect to see women in infantry battalions yet. The Corps is only cracking the door open for women at this point and will place them in units through the normal assignment process in staff positions for select military occupational specialties newly opened up for female officers and enlisted women.
Marines assigned to combat arms battalions will begin seeing women occupying these staff positions sometime in May and after an unspecified period of evaluation, more positions could open up.
Also in this week’s issue, find out more about the possibility of extra Korea deployments, the cuts in bonus money for pilots and read the story of one grunt’s six hours of hell and the award he earned for going through it.