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Women and the draft: They’re divided over registration
The Virgin Islands Daily News ^ | June 28, 2016 | Stephanie Akin, CQ-Roll Call

Posted on 06/28/2016 10:34:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 06/28/2016 10:34:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Cruz screwed the pooch on more than one occasion over the course of the primary, but he was and remains the only candidate this cycle to firmly, unequivocally condemn the utterly absurd, politically-driven and dangerous move to integrate women into military units where they simply do not belong.


2 posted on 06/28/2016 10:39:03 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Well, someone should tell Trump this is a WINNER!!

“She wants you to go and carry 100 pound backpacks like men!! To drag a 200 pound man off the battlefield, and if you can’t, you both die!! It’s insanity!! And she wants it.”


3 posted on 06/28/2016 10:45:31 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The first requirement should be if the woman is a democrat? If she is then she should have to register for the draft and put in a combat role.


4 posted on 06/28/2016 10:47:16 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

The only reason women are exempt from the draft is because women were not allowed to have combat MOS’s (Military Occupational Specialties). Women were barred from combat. Since that is no longer the case than there is no longer a reason not to draft woman. Now I think it is insane to draft women and send them into combat. Total insanity and immoral. However perhaps that is what it is going to take to end this crazy idea of women in combat. If drafting little Suzy will stop women from getting combat MOSs then I say draft little Suzy.


5 posted on 06/28/2016 10:48:46 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait till they actually get drafted and put into boot camp. Sure many of them will make it through PC compliant / affirmative action boot camp but wait till they set their feet onto the battlefield and feel the bullets whiz by their head a few times. It will get real, real fast...


6 posted on 06/28/2016 10:54:28 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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““Requiring women to register for the draft, if it is indeed necessary, represents that last hurdle being cleared for women being perceived as equal in the military,” she said.

I’ll bet the Trannies are confused about which way to go. So to speak.


7 posted on 06/28/2016 10:55:01 PM PDT by jessduntno (The mind of a liberal...deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and fueled by hate.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

just basic progressive insanity.
Women do not have the same physical traits as men, and visa versa.
This comes from the party of “science” that says if you think you are a woman, just put on a dress so you can pee in the woman’s restroom and shower with the girls.
This old man will pick up a rifle and go fight the Islamofascists before I will let one of my daughters think about going.
The sissybi*ches on the left prefer to send women because they are less than men.


8 posted on 06/28/2016 10:57:59 PM PDT by bobo1 (Truth has but only one voice.)
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I want to see Trigglypuff drafted:

She needs a big dose of no-safe-space gender equality.

9 posted on 06/28/2016 11:01:02 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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As a small tank?


10 posted on 06/28/2016 11:03:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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A couple months of remedial PT would get people down to size.


11 posted on 06/28/2016 11:06:40 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
"... the utterly absurd, politically-driven and dangerous move to integrate women into military units where they simply do not belong."

If there is a situation such that our survival depends upon having women serving in combat roles, then they should. Registering for the draft is the mechanism whereby such women will be identified and inducted.

There was some question about the wisdom of inducting Japanese Americans during World War II. The solution was to make up units consisting mainly of such men and having them serve in the European Theater. They distinguished themselves quite well.

If units made up of women succeed, then they should be inducted. We won't know the answer until the day comes that the proper question is asked. Until that time, women should be registered and available for service.

If that makes the liberals squeamish, all the better.

12 posted on 06/28/2016 11:18:36 PM PDT by William Tell
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No, women were exempt because cubicles countries recognize the need for mothers to be with their children. The feminist movement said that’s all bunk - and now we have “conservatives” agreeing with the feminists


13 posted on 06/28/2016 11:36:53 PM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: PLMerite

Good Lord, what IS that?


14 posted on 06/28/2016 11:37:40 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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No, women were exempt because cubicles countries recognize the need for mothers to be with their children.

They were legally exempt by SCOTUS in Rostker v. Goldberg. SCOTUS decided that women were not required to register:

And since women are excluded from combat service by statute or military policy, men and women are simply not similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft, and Congress' decision to authorize the registration of only men therefore does not violate the Due Process Clause.

Since Obamas policy has now put women into combat service, it violates the Due Process Clause.

15 posted on 06/28/2016 11:52:16 PM PDT by TheCipher (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is just another liberal/uniparty diversionary divide and conquer issue.


16 posted on 06/28/2016 11:55:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Right, well, I know I am going to ruffle some feathers with this but here goes:

ANY military “Draft” is illegal. When a country reaches a point where even the bare minimum of its citizenry cannot muster enough courage to defend themselves, that country effectively ceases to exist.

That being said...

If the idiots we have in charge of this country by whatever means they got there decide that a “draft” is mandated, then you can not exclude women from it purely based upon their gender -well, I mean of course you can, but by what logical reason? Their internal plumbing?

If you force one such as I to undergo boot camp training then you had better well have females forced to undergo the same thing and for the same reasons, otherwise you are merely playing politically-correct games with the citizens involved and your reasons for doing so are automatically suspect.

I do not believe women should be forced into combat positions, but I also do not believe women should be excluded from any “draft” simply because they are female.

You wanted equality to males, you got it.

Live with it.


17 posted on 06/29/2016 12:04:19 AM PDT by Utilizer
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” If drafting little Suzy will stop women from getting combat MOSs then I say draft little Suzy.”

I completely agree.

I’ll go a step farther. Re-institute the draft and start taking 20% of the HS graduates regardless of gender every year and take skew the draft to areas where fewer young people volunteer to provide “equitable” representation of the entire US population - no exception except for physical or mental disabilities that are strictly defined.

A step farther still. Make Federal student loans and Pell Grants available only to those with military service.

Farther still: How about 8 years military service = 4 years of tuition at a state university?


18 posted on 06/29/2016 12:06:09 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I'm not a crank! I just act like one.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, and do I really need to bring up again how so many women in the military suddenly wound up pregnant when the time came to deploy outside of CONUS where they would actually have to participate in military maneuvres?

The U.S. Navy has a continuing problem with that in that female squadron members for some strange reason seem to keep becoming pregnant quite soon after notices were posted of the units upcoming deployment.

Strange, no?


19 posted on 06/29/2016 12:15:10 AM PDT by Utilizer
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It won’t be log before we hear some guy refusing to sign up for selective service because he identifies as female.


20 posted on 06/29/2016 1:57:42 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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