Hultgreene-Curie Watch

The poor woman. She might as well be wearing a red shirt on an away team:

In a historic first, the Marine Corps plans to assign a female officer to the infantry following her anticipated graduation from its grueling training program, service officials said Thursday.

The woman is a lieutenant. She and her male colleagues in the Infantry Officer Course completed an intensive combat exercise Wednesday at the Marines� rugged training facility in Twentynine Palms, Calif., the final graded requirement of the 13-week program.

IOC, as it�s known among Marines, is considered some of the military�s toughest training. Typically, about 25 percent of students wash out.

The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, is the first female officer to complete the course out of three dozen to have tried. She is expected to lead an infantry platoon of about 40 Marines, a trailblazing role within an organization that has been criticized for its resistance to such change and for fostering a culture of misogyny.

She has no chance. We know how this ends.