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Last year, without fanfare or a formal announcement, the Marine Corps<\/a> took a step a key leader had formerly said was not feasible due to manpower constraints, assembling teams of both male and female drill instructors to train recruit companies and platoons at its two boot camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Corps Recruit Depots<\/a> received a directive in December 2023 from the then-commander of Marine Corps Training and Education Command, Lt. Gen. Kevin Iiams, instructing boot camp staff to start building the teams, Lt. Col. Stephen Draper, TECOM branch head for individual training, told Marine Corps Times in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were able to start in a matter of months,\u201d Draper said. \u201cI believe [Marine Corps Recruit Depot] San Diego was able to knock it out as early as Jan. 24.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While not every DI team can be gender-integrated<\/a> due to a limited number of female drill instructors at the depots, Draper said minimums were established. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At San Diego, where a total of 12 DI teams train as many recruit companies at any given time, leaders decided to have no fewer than three integrated teams, with the potential to staff more if resources permit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across the depots, he said, about 10% of all DI teams are integrated \u2014 about the same proportion of female recruits at the depots. A typical integrated team, he added, will have three DIs of one gender and a fourth of the opposite gender, with most featuring three male instructors and one female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat number certainly fluctuates,\u201d Draper said. \u201c[Recruit training battalion leaders] look at the flow of people coming in and where their DIs are employed, and then they allocate their DI teams and put them together as they see fit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving to a mixed-gender DI team model was a key recommendation of a $2 million independent study commissioned by the Marine Corps and carried out by the University of Pittsburgh between 2020 and 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marine Corps Sgt. Alberto Ochoa corrects a recruit during the table one course of fire at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Aug. 21, 2024. (Cpl. Sarah M. Grawcock\/U.S. Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The study, which ran to more than 700 pages, cited a counterproductive \u201cgroup think\u201d they\u2019d found that develops in single-gender leadership teams, and said a move to mixed-gender teams would give recruits a broader range of role models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Marine Corps posits \u2018having strong leaders of both genders as role models for young recruits is integral to their assimilation into our ranks\u2019 yet recruits\u2019 primary training experiences are currently executed by same-gender drill instructor teams,\u201d the report stated<\/a>. \u201cReceiving direct, sustained training from drill instructors of both genders reinforces for recruits the concept that men and women are equally respected and authoritative leaders of their service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Study authors proposed a model that would allow same-gender leaders to supervise platoons in squad bays overnight, but otherwise enable a mixed-gender training experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Corps, which has taken significant steps \u2014 under pressure from Congress \u2014 to further integrate its training depots, including closing its exclusively female Fourth Recruit Training Battalion in 2023 and admitting female recruits to San Diego for the first time in 2021, continues to operate single-gender recruit platoons, citing privacy and safety reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with Marine Corps Times in 2022<\/a>, Iiams said he didn\u2019t want to create mixed-gender DI teams until staffing allowed all teams to be integrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a one-standard kind of individual,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to have mixed DI teams for only portions of the recruit population. \u2026 It\u2019s got to be everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A TECOM spokesman, Maj. Hector Infante, took issue with the characterization of Iiams\u2019 subsequent order to integrate as a reversal of position, saying the Marine Corps had been following a \u201cdeliberate, methodical approach\u201d to integrating all recruit training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe main reason the USMC had not integrated DI teams who conduct troop handling duties at the platoon level before 2024 was due to privacy issues with the recruits, as well as ensuring adequate rest for DIs,\u201d Infante said in a written statement, saying that a requirement for same-gender supervision of troops as they sleep and perform hygiene activities in their squad bays required an adjustment of standard procedures and staff rest plans with mixed teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn a team with four DIs, if one is opposite-gender, then only three DIs are part of the \u2026 overnight duty rotation, which means less time off\/rest for those DIs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not clear when the Marine Corps might ever be able to staff integrated DI teams across the fleet. With women continuing to make up such a small proportion of the service, efforts to ramp up the female DI population come at the expense of other career opportunities they might have in the fleet, leaders have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Draper said the unannounced rollout of the mixed teams wasn\u2019t designed to deflect attention from the change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t looking for a pat on the back or anything,\u201d he said. \u201cWe were just looking at: what\u2019s the best way to do this, what makes the most sense and what makes the most lethal Marines?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff burnout has long been a concern for drill instructors writ large, and particularly for female DIs, a community for which smaller numbers have typically meant less time off between rotations and little flexibility for the demands of life and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe inflexibility of single-gender drill instructor teams combined with personnel shortages necessitate female drill instructors shortening their between-cycle breaks to ensure sufficient coverage for every female platoon,\u201d the University of Pittsburgh report<\/a> found. \u201cWithout sufficient time to rest and prepare between cycles, the drill instructor job takes an even greater toll on physical, mental, and emotional health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn enlisted female Marine Corps training cadre member from Parris Island stated, \u2018Most of our female drill instructors lose custody of their children, their marriages fall apart, [and] their bodies end up in casts.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early findings from the change, Draper said the mixed teams had indeed taken some pressure off and created more possibilities for female DIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really kind of opened the door, that they have a lot more opportunities at the depots to do other things,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, all around, I think it\u2019s a much more efficient use of personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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