Liberty Nation Reports: "In the category of woke that just won’t go away, the Marine Corps is taking time to fuzz up male-female distinctions. The warrior clan of A Few Good Men are struggling to adopt ways of addressing a few good women when aggregated with men. When most of us were growing up, saying “yes sir” and “yes ma’am” was a sign of respect. But those who are training our young men and women to be Marines are said to find the terms sir and ma’am way too confusing – threatening, even."

"Ok, the subject is ripe for some good-natured mocking, but reading the explanation for why the “sir-ma’am” thing is an issue for Marine Corps boot camp trainers and drill sergeants reveals a deeper set of problems. It seems that the University of Pittsburgh did a two-year study on how best the Marine Corps can integrate women. Though not a finding of the report, underlying difficulties in creating integrated male-female combat units at boot camps result partially from a congressional mandate. In the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), legislators told the US Marine Corps it could not have separate boot camps for men and women: They must be integrated"