Battling the Storm Within

Thursday, November 16, 2017

The few, the proud, women marines define themselves.




It’s never been easy to be a woman in the Marine Corps, which is the most physically demanding branch of the military and the one with the smallest percentage of female service members: 7.6 percent. Disturbing revelations in March made it even tougher: Male members of the 30,000-strong Marines United Facebook group had been soliciting and posting explicit photos of current and former female Marines without their permission, often accompanied by violent and obscene comments.


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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2017/11/02/the-few-the-proud-women-marines-define-themselves/?utm_term=.b69382076c95

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