[Daily Caller] In an op-ed for the military blog Task & Purpose, former Marine Lt. Col. Kate Germano blamed the problem of high female attrition in the service on recruiters bringing in weak women and refusing to provide real mentorship.Germano was responding to a recent Associated Press article that discussed the Marine Corps’ efforts to meet its goals of 10 percent women in the force. Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller has given the service an order to recruit more women.
"I’ve told them that 10 percent is where we want to go and they’re working on it," Neller said. "Go recruit more women. Find them. They’re out there."
To accomplish that effort, the service is vastly trying to shift its advertising efforts to remove the idea the Marine Corps is a "good ol’ boys club," but for Germano, this change in advertising is only half of the game.