Congress Gives Marines $18 Million To 'Battle Misogyny'

America has many enemies who seek to do us harm.

Whether it’s rogue nations like North Korea or Iran, jihadi organizations like ISIS or al-Qaeda, or homegrown terrorists looking to take down the government, our military has to be prepared to fight many different actors.

None, perhaps, as dangerous as misogyny.

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That must be the case, right? Why else would Congress include $18 million in the Pentagon’s budget to “battle misogyny” in the Marines? It’s there.

In the $1.16 trillion bill passed to keep the government funded through September, Congress slipped in funding for consultants for “Marine Corps leaders to battle misogyny in the ranks.”

The Military Times is reporting that the “omnibus spending bill includes $18 million for ‘consulting services to include assistance to the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ to address the recent nude photo sharing scandal within the service, a signal of lawmakers’ continued concern over the crimes.”

The measure must still be approved by Congress by Friday to end the months-long impasse over spending. But the way they’re praising the deal as a way of avoiding a shutdown, it looks like it will pass.

Back in March, a scandal broke involving a “Marines United” Facebook page with nearly 30,000 members. They were sharing nude pictures of female officers and other women.

Since then, Marine officials have been on a mea culpa tour, promising to curb the “misogynistic culture” within the corps. The bill doesn’t specify exactly what the “consulting services” are for, but it is a significant amount of money for a single issue.

Last year all Marines were required to undergo “unconscious bias” training after the Obama administration opened all combat jobs to women.

“Topics include unconscious bias, which focuses on how people prejudge others based on factors such as race and gender, and principles of institutional change,” Military.com reported last March.

H/T: The Washington Free Beacon