{"id":29009,"date":"2023-05-05T00:16:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/05\/marines-to-deactivate-historically-female-recruit-training-battalion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:58:12","slug":"marines-to-deactivate-historically-female-recruit-training-battalion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/training-sim\/2023\/05\/05\/marines-to-deactivate-historically-female-recruit-training-battalion\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines to deactivate historically female recruit training battalion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the Marine Corps continues to gender-integrate its boot camps<\/a> on both coasts, it is shutting down the recruit training battalion that for decades was the only unit that turned female recruits into Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The closing of the now-coed 4th Recruit Training Battalion<\/a> was characterized by the Corps as an administrative decision that will help standardize training across its two recruit depots of San Diego and Parris Island, South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Corps has lagged behind the other military service branches in gender-integrating recruit training. Its the only military service that still operates gender-separated training at the platoon level \u2015 saying it is crucial for how it breaks down recruits and turns them into high-performing Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress had directed that the Corps integrate women into recruit training at San Diego \u2014 which was open only to men until 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, some personnel from the already coed 4th Recruit Training Battalion will be shuffled over to the West Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corps aims to have its population of female recruits split equally between the two boot camps by October, according to the news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\t