Posted on 08/03/2013 7:44:31 AM PDT by darkwing104
Retired Lt. Col. Robert Macginnis’ book DEADLY CONSEQUENCES: How Cowards Are Pushing Women into Combat, presents the facts, studies and the history of why women should not be allowed into ground combat units. Despite the modern perception of the military fighting a high tech, Nintendo-type war, any prolonged action will require face to face encounters with the enemy. The experienced infantry officer argues with facts that women should not be placed in situations where they may have to fight in close quarters or serve in Special Forces.
Society
“Society at large” doesn’t have a clue. The political correctness, bovine excrement crowd believe that women can fight on the front line as efficiently as any man. In order to appease the liberal forces of Congress and members of an Obama White House staff who never served a day in their life in the American military, the Armed Services will be compelled to weaken physical standards in order to allow women to serve in front line situations and in special forces.
Unfortunately, this is not an opinion but a fact. General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has admitted as much. In a press conference announcing the rescission of the 1994 rule excluding women from ground combat units Dempsey said, “If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high?”
REMF
The greatest insult to someone on the front line is being questioned or second guessed by a REMF (Rear Echelon Mother F’r). Today we have REMFs in Washington who believe that they are so damn smart they can dictate policy for the entire military based on theory.
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The comunists, when they tke power, always act to defang and emasculate the military while building a parallel praetorian military under their own firm control. Our parallel military is being built up in TSA and FEMA. It will actually wind up being several separate armies in order to balance each other. Communists always fear those who have the guns, even each other.
With regard to the article-YEP! Disaster in the making.
The Obama White House is filled with MF’ers who have never served anything .
Any officer who says a woman can be trained and put into Combat with men should be relieved of duty. He is a fool.
Amen. If a woman could go through Ranger Training or Special Forces Training successfully without changing any of the standards, I would think someone should give her /him some gender/drug tests to determine how it happened. I for one do not believe it can happen without lowering the standards. I guess that makes me a “sexist”. So be it!
I totally agree. Women should not be in combat roles. I was a female JAG and warriors are a very different breed.
Related thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3050668/posts
All you need to know is the Soviet union also used women in combat.
“If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high?”
Only as snipers. Which makes some sense as it is a game of patience and intellect.
All you need to know is the Soviet union also used women in combat.
Only as snipers, not front line combatants. From the article
England and Russia experimented with women in combat. Low information cowards may argue that Russians had success with female combatants during World War II. Well then why, as Macginnis points out, did the Soviets stop using women in combat units after the Second World War? The British Army recently came to the conclusion that women do not work well in combat situations.
Missing the point. The point is to give females preference in the promotion process.
I think that women should be in the Infantry. I think that women should be drafted and put into the Infantry until our Infantry resembles our population. Then, we should take on every other country in the world. Keep drafting females to replace their dead and maimed sisters. Women have desired all the benefits of citizenship without enjoying the benefits of being in the Infantry. Remember Pat Schroeder? Remember her condescending mug on TV railing against the military? Wouldn’t you have liked to see her leading an assault against a fortified position? I would have. Nope....give them what they ask for. Mandate women in the Infantry. You want to see increases in the Defense budget? Draft women into the Infantry. Let them defend a position with one roll of concertina wire. Let them take a bayonet in the guts.
The Israelis tried female combat units. I think it was the 1956 war when the Arabs captured a position held by Israeli female paratroopers. That put an end to female Infantry in the Israeli Army.
Men today need to learn chivalry and honor, women or most men have no place in combat, period. Throughout history, wars were fought by men to safeguard their women and children back home. (except Muslims, like the Kenyan one at 1600 Penn Ave.) Today, if men are not allowed to be taught to be chivalrous and honorable then we will all be not better than Anthony Weiner.
I do not believe women need to be sacrificed to prove a political point.
History always provides the lessons that modern day progressives redact. At best ignorance, at worst deception. The low-information public educated (m)asses can't tell the difference.
When there's an endemic problem such as the state of our military, you have to seek out the root cause of the problem:
The (so called) "Commander in Chief".
“The Joint Chiefs have stopped being soldiers and are now just well-trained “yes men” to whatever administration occupies the White House.”
I really don't know how any of those serving under them have one iota of respect for them. I certainly don't.
My son just graduated Friday and is now a new Devildog with 338 other Marines. Don’t worry America they have our back.
Actually you can’t tell some of the woman from men. So he might be right.
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