Mike McGinn
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM

Sensitivity training by wearing fake boobs and bellies?I'm reminded of when I went through The Basic School (TBS) as a young Marine 2ndLt thirty years ago. Back then only 1 of the 8 companies that went through TBS had women in it, and the women in that company were in their own platoon. I was in that company.When we went on training marches the normal routine was to march for 55 minutes and rest for 5. In the all-male companies, the rate of march was so intense that you literally collapsed during the 5-minute breaks. In the mixed sex company, the company could only march as fast as the slowest platoon (the women). When we got to the 5-minute breaks, the women would collapse in exhaustion while the male platoons would do calisthenics.If we had done that today, we'd all hav been hauled off to "PC prison".