This article revolves around women becoming Marines. In South Carolina, women train for 11 weeks to become part of the US Armed Forces. This depot is the only place that women can become Marines and, other than the one battalion and classroom courses, men and women recruits train separately. The article briefs the reader of the history of female Marines and until 2016, women were not able to serve in combat roles alongside their male counterparts. The story includes many photos depicting the daily life of these women who devote many hours to the grueling and lacking-in-total-equality system that prepares them for the service.
The article mentions an exercise that the recruits do called, "Noonan's evacuation" based on an evacuation that took place in Vietnam, showing that previous conflicts can influence the way we go about international conflict. In the future, we will continue to change the way our defense system is set up and work towards further equality while maintaining some of the same important lessons from previous military conflicts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/24/us/female-marines-parris-island-crucible.html
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