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Invisible
Women
The Marine Corps’ annual
birthday video included
only six seconds of women
in an eight-minute tribute
to celebrate the upcoming
birthday of the U.S. Marines,
the service’s top brass sent around a
special video message—and drew a
barrage of criticism. Women service
members are visible in roughly six sec-
onds of the eight-minute video.
Current and for-
mer Marines rebuked
Marine Commandant
General David H. Berger
and Sergeant Major
Troy E. Black, the top
enlisted Marine, for the lack of inclu-
sion and for a failure of leadership.
The backlash comes as the U.S.
Marine Corps continues to wrestle
with its internal culture in the wake
of the Marines United scandal less
than three years ago—when a male
Marines-only Face-
book group shared
nude photos and
obscene comments
about women service
members—and amid
BYJAMES LAPORTA
@JimLaPorta
ARMED FORCES
NOVEMBER 29, 2019