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Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat
Eagle Forum ^ | June 1, 2005 | Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on 06/03/2005 4:29:05 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

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To: Meldrim

Floating Whore Houses? Get a grip.

*SIGH* I'm tired of beating this dead horse, and you're misogynistic attitude is unsettling.

So, since you feel so strongly about this; don't enlist (they're raising the enlistment age to 40 now in case you were tempted) and don't let your daughter enlist because as we know, the only way a woman can earn a promotion in the military is on her back. /sarcasm *Rolleyes*


61 posted on 06/12/2005 9:31:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Meldrim
Good morning.

I get the impression you don't like being in the military.

If I'm wrong, I apologize and hope that you keep your edge on so that "half assed" enemy doesn't blow half of yours off.

Michael Frazier
62 posted on 06/12/2005 9:57:58 AM PDT by brazzaville (No surrender,no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Talk to some of the med people who serve aboard the aircraft carriers. As for enlisting, did it during the Carter administration when I was seventeen and a few months.


63 posted on 06/12/2005 11:52:01 AM PDT by Meldrim
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To: CO Gal

BTTT


64 posted on 06/12/2005 11:55:00 AM PDT by wardaddy ((Free ILoveDane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!))
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To: brazzaville
Talked to somebody whose fought against Germans, Koreans, Chinese and/or Vietnamese. As for getting my ass blown off, 1600+ over two years is nothing compared to the 2100+ in September 1968, or Pusan or Tet or Bastogne.

As for not liking the military, I prefer to be in units where the standards preclude quota's. For the most part, I've been successful at staying in those types of units.

65 posted on 06/12/2005 11:55:16 AM PDT by Meldrim
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To: familyop

Good posts.

It won't have much effect on the social engineering types here but thanks.


66 posted on 06/12/2005 11:57:29 AM PDT by wardaddy ((Free ILoveDane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!))
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To: Meldrim
Good afternoon.
"As for not liking the military, I prefer to be in units where the standards preclude quota's. For the most part, I've been successful at staying in those types of units."

Good answer. I, too enlisted when I was 17, in 1966. It's just about the perfect age for soldiering.

I can't comment on the qualities of the German soldiers but I've heard very few negative comments about them from the old veterans who drove them into the ground when they were young soldiers. The same goes for the Japanese, though I've known several veterans who still feel a deep hatred for them.

I knew South Koreans in Vietnam who were tough professionals and have uncles who fought the communists in the "police action". They were less impressed with the abilities of the communists than they were with their numbers and their willingness to die. It didn't keep the North Koreans and Chinese from being driven all the way back to the Yalu

We lost a couple of thousand a week right after Tet but we destroyed the Vietcong and kept South Vietnam alive for a few more years. In the end, after 10 years the communists lost a million men, we lost 58,000 and the communists only won with the assistance of liberals in our government.

In the end the bad guys in Iraq and Afghanistan will lose, too, and it will be the all volunteer, coed military we have now that will do the job. Among the victors will be amputees who volunteered to return to their units and overage ex-stockbrokers.

9/11 is what put them there.

Michael Frazier
67 posted on 06/12/2005 5:36:50 PM PDT by brazzaville (No surrender,no retreat. Well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: Meldrim

I belive that was the setup I was suggesting, yeah.


68 posted on 06/12/2005 10:53:00 PM PDT by Bluchers Elephant
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To: Tailgunner Joe

She should have gone into more detail regarding the disgraceful antics of Heather Wilson, Mark Kirk and Ike Skelton in undermining Ducan Hunter...


69 posted on 06/16/2005 2:55:05 PM PDT by Meldrim
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To: Dog

Wow..you're right. She could have served at Bastonge or Pusan no problem!


70 posted on 06/16/2005 2:56:35 PM PDT by Meldrim
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"What's the TRUE AGENDA behind not wanting women in combat?"

The real agenda is to have an army capable of fighting a ground war on the scale of Pusan or Tet; that's Duncan Hunter's agenda anyway.

71 posted on 06/16/2005 2:58:28 PM PDT by Meldrim
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