The First Four Women to Pass Marine Infantry Training Took This Selfie

[BainsBane]

This Instagram shows the new faces of Uncle Sam's Lean, Mean Green Killing Machine.

These four young women are the first enlisted females ever to complete the Marine Corps' infantry combat training regimen. They took this pic on November 9, the day before the Corps' 238th birthday. It appeared on the Instagram account of the recently minted Marine who is front and center, Private First Class Harlee "Rambo" Bradford ("I lift, I like blowing shit up&quot , whose nickname suggests both that she is tough — she went through training with a stress fracture — and that no one actually reads the Rambo novels anymore.

These women have now definitively proven what fatuous Congressional oldsters for so long prevented other women from demonstrating: the ability to hump 90 pounds of gear over rough terrain for days; an aptitude for killing people with grenades, radioed-in air and artillery strikes, bare hands, and the M249 Light Machine Gun, which is not all that light; and a general comfort with serving at the tip of the spear, being first-in-last-out, and all the other man-meat-inspired metaphors for combat infantry service.

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[vt_native]

1. "I like blowing shit up"

This ignorance is just as repellent when coming from the mouth of a woman. I guess this is considered progress.

[BainsBane]

2. They should really stay in their place

and do rape porn instead.

[vt_native]

3. Nice strawman!

[BainsBane]

4. Did you somehow forget

You'd wandered into a group on feminism?
I find it fascinating what people are outraged about around here. Somehow when it comes to women, there is always a reason to oppose equal rights.

Will you be telling the guys at Mythbusters how ignorant they are too for "liking to blow stuff up"?

[seabeyond]

9. ahe could have said the loud noise scares her and she plugs her ears. maybe that would make the

poster more comfortable

[BainsBane]

10. I certainly understand opposition to our bloated military

but why it needs to be expressed in this particular context--well, I'm not buying it.

[CrispyQ]

18. That made me lol. -nt

[seabeyond]

19. i thought it funny. i am so fuckin funny... people just do not acknowledge, lol nt

[seabeyond]

6. the women excelled. hit a milestone. broke down a barrier. that is the obvious point you

are well aware of.

[Arcanetrance]

7. This really isn't the place to discuss the pros and cons of military actions

This is the place to celebrate a great step forward for women and the achievements of these 4 women in particular

[BainsBane]

8. It came on my FB feed via Mother Jones

You know, the neocon rag.

[Arcanetrance]

11. You know I don't follow much of mother jones I probably should expand the sites I follow

I hate that someone would try and put down the accomplishments of these 4 women and really women everywhere

[BainsBane]

12. It's a leftist magazine

named for the 19th- and early 20th-century labor organizer.

[Arcanetrance]

13. I've read it a couple times I just don't get around to reading everything I should

Usually I just hang out here on DU because eventually stories from most of the sites make their way through here

[MadrasT]

16. Blowing shit up is cool.

Amuses the hell out of me.

I appreciate all those who volunteer to serve in our armed forces, and I appreciate the hell out of these women.

Damn straight this is progress.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. I like blowing up shit, too ...

here's looking at YOU, kid

[Arcanetrance]

5. Congratulations to them that's one hell of an accomplishment

[IronLionZion]

14. Good for them! K+R nt

[EC]

15. Wow, I'm getting old.

They look like kids to me. Good for them.

[ismnotwasm]

17. As long as war exists there will be a need for soldiers to fight

While this is a long, long overdue victory. A part of me remains saddened that so much of the world considers war 'the' answer.

I'm the mother of a female combat veteran, and what she says now is "violence begats violence".

Yet, I also can't help feeling very proud of these women. They have my admiration and respect.

[geek tragedy]

21. This is encouraging, but . . .

It's great whenever sexist stereotypes and discrimination crumble.

But, unfortunate to see even more people buy into the mentality of killing on an industrial scale.