Repetitive motion injury is one of the leading causes of non-combat injuries in the military. New technology may change that, though:
Posted on 01/19/2011 11:11:11 PM PST by neverdem
The uninformed journalist was probably thinking of the Combat Action Badge, which is awarded to non-infantry soldiers who’ve seen combat. One must BE infantry to earn the CIB, not cook, drive or clean for them.
military myth? Carlos Hathcock supposed to have killed a female Viet Cong sniper called “Apache Woman.” She reportedly delighted in torturing and slowly killing young Marines wounded in ambush or in traps set for them in the jungle. When she and her squad entered his prepared, long-range ambush, Hathcock is said to have identified her as the target when she squatted to pee.
Repetitive motion injury is one of the leading causes of non-combat injuries in the military. New technology may change that, though:
Rackin’ my memory, but Israeli women fought alongside men in the Haganah only during the Israel war for independence in 1948. All the problems of morale and discipline came to the fore, and from then on women soldiers were relegated to support roles.
Pix of Israeli girl soldiers carrying their M-16s slung across the butt are neat (I have one of a gal in a bikini slinging her weapon) but doesn’t mean they are combat soldiers.
It’s more like where I was deployed the threat level was minimal but everyone had to carry their M-16 & magazines but no combat gear; it was mostly a pain in the neck.
BTW, that photo on this thread of the girl soldier saluting just breaks my heart. She’s as pretty as a picture but IMO hasn’t a clue about killing people & breaking things.
Men like them are the reason red flags have never flown over Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, or the Malacca Strait. Your and their strong battle killed a million of their cadres in the field and made sure their armies never made it to Singapore, which I'm personally sure was Ho Chi Minh's dream. May he rot in hell.
I like to think that disaster is ahead for the barking moonbats instead. They're going to end up trying to Australian-crawl to Iceland to get away from us.
Hope they man up with booze and body grease. That's a cold swim.
Yes, I agree she needs to be propping up a doorway, waiting for her soldier boy to come home. Submerging women in combat is just sick, and evidence that ideology has driven out someone's humanity.
One of the best M60 / M2 gunners I’ve ever observed was a female. She could squeeze off three round bursts almost every time. She was very accurate as well.
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Young folks here who have not lived enough and our handful of fembots don't know that and the latter never will
And it's not just the obvious physical, it's mental as well.
Women are simply not suited to such stress as well as men.
I have watched this all my life.
Which is why when I support Sarah Palin for POTUS I say so qualifying her as an EXCEPTIONAL woman with exceptional being used as intended...an exception...a rarity.
Military might is won on common sense not exceptions.
It is not by accident that no one in history has used women in combat in any numbers except in desperate measure like children or old men. The Israelis in their Socialist and desperate heyday tried it and were not happy with it.
The Amazons were a myth now taught as truth by Gender Studies idiots.
Sure there have been exceptions of women leaders...Bodicea (failed but inspired), Elisabeth, and Maggie...Golda Mier was not a good leader in my opinion
but there have been few decent women military examples outside of spies and a handful of Russian fighter pilot-Luftwaffe fodder
I'm not willing to experiment and the only reason we do is because we are sick as a culture and soft as putty spiritually.
I am just simply saddened this even needs explaining.
ditto for open homosexuality there too
once again Gates, Obama’s whore does his bidding to socially engineer the military...
my rant
I think you can get a CIB being in forward combat theatre and never had engaged the enemy
as usual the author is nspeaking our his-her arse with their propaganda
Viet Cong were homegrown insurgency.
the question was about women in NVA battalions
of which I too am skeptical
no one questions women used as VC insurgents
precisely where women have historically been used in such dire attempts
largely made ineffective in much of Vietnam during Tet.
just an observation but I see posters here soft on women in forward combat also are south bashers, race baiters and PC on most social issues
i have crossed swords with them
too bad they didn’t take the the bait on the homopurge threads
I’ll take a Free Republic Neo Reb over these squishy Yankee RINO’s anyday.
In combat areas toilet and washing facilities are rudimentary at best and, often, nonexistent, and some studies have found that, for women soldiers, “unmet basic hygiene needs affect morale” and their ability to cope in combat circumstances, says Browne of Wayne State. In such situations, some women “retained urine and stool and limited their water intake to reduce the number of times they would have to go to the bathroom,” which both increased their risk of urinary-tract infections and dehydration and decreased their ability to work at top efficiency. ( Kingsley Browne, Co-Ed Combat: The New Evidence that Women Shouldn’t Fight the Nation’s Wars (2007), p.259)http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=176941452434
Actually the military’s last bastions are the service academy football teams. When are they going to be integrated?
Or maybe the military doesn’t want to lose football games by adding players of lesser size, strength and skills
(crickets)
11C, indirect fire infantrymen, also known as mortarmen, are organic to rifle companies and rifle battalions. When did they stop getting CIBs?
I was unaware of MOS 11C infantry mortarman.
I thought everybody in the rifle company had the rotating honor of carrying the baseplate.
they probably said the same thing about black soldiers....and about black quarterbacks....
I'm against women in combat on principle.....we need to keep some civility in our culture and women and children STILL should have a special position of being kept from the worse of life...
women don't have to be in combat to serve in vital careers in the military....which they do already....
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