There’s no such thing as a female Marine

A Marine by any other name ...

Tampa Military Headlines Examiner
M Jessie Barczak

"There’s no such thing as a female Marine” said Lance Cpl. Jordan Herald of Chenoa, Ill. “We do the same things, so there’s no reason to classify us any different.” Cpl. Herald was reacting to the publishing of a photograph of four women Marines at an Afghanistan patrol base, resting with their guns and helmets propped up against the dugout. Two of the Marines were snacking and one was tending to her bare left foot.

The four Marines appeared in a photo snapped by David Furst of Getty Images, in The New York Times’ front page above the fold. The fact that the caption made no mention of the Marines’ gender bothered Lory Manning, a retired Navy captain. “Isn’t it amazing? It’s just four Marines in a dugout. And nobody’s pointing out that it’s four female Marines,” said Manning in the St. Petersburg Times. Manning is the Director of the Women in the Military Project at the Women’s Research and Education Institute in Washington, D.C.
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