Marine Times Hope Hodge Seck - Marine war hero: SecNav 'off
base' on women in combat
Marine war hero: SecNav 'off base' on women in combat
By Hope Hodge Seck, Staff writer4:58 p.m. EDT September 14,
2015
An influential Marine leader who received the nation's
second-highest valor award and helped run the Corps' months long study on women
in combat slammed Navy Secretary Ray Mabus this weekend for questioning the
validity of the experiment.
In a publicly visible post on his personal Facebook page,
Sgt. Maj. Justin LeHew said Mabus was "way off base" to suggest that
female Marines of a higher caliber should have been selected for the service's
integrated task force experiment and that officials went into the test
anticipating the women would not be successful.
Mabus' comments run "counter to the interests of
national security and [are] unfair to the women who participated in this
study," wrote LeHew, who played a key role in the service's nine-month
experiment as the top enlisted leader with Marine Corps Training and Education
Command.
"No one went in to this with the mentality that we did
not want this to succeed," he added. "No Marine, regardless of
gender, would do that."
LeHew later removed or hid the post from his Facebook page.
He did not respond to Marine Corps Times requests' for comment sent via email
and Facebook.
"Sgt. Maj. LeHew’s social media posts reflect his
personal views and not those of Training and Education Command or the Marine
Corps," said 1st Lt. Matthew Rojo, a spokesman for the command. "He
is not available for further comment at this time."
Both Marine Corps Headquarters and Ray Mabus, through a
spokesman, declined to comment.
LeHew, nicknamed "The Hero of Nasiriyah," received
the prestigious Navy Cross in 2004... Read much more here: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2015/09/14/marine-war-hero-secnav-off-base-women-combat/72251362/
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