Posted on 01/25/2013 10:23:19 AM PST by george76
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that with women now eligible to fill combat roles in the military, commanders must justify why any woman might be excluded – and, if women can’t meet any unit’s standard, the Pentagon will ask: “Does it really have to be that high?”
Dempsey’s comments came at a Pentagon news conference with Defense Sec. Leon Panetta Thursday, announcing the shift in Defense Department policy opening up all combat positions to women.
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“Importantly, though, 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? Does it really have to be that high? With the direct combat exclusion provision in place, we never had to have that conversation.”
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Somewhere in China the generals are smiling.
There.
Fixed.
And, thus begins the final push to wreck what has been the best military in the world.
Kids can't pass their finals to graduate? Lower the standards. Too dumb to get into college? Lower the standards. People too fat to be accepted in the military? Lower the standards. Peaople can't meet the standards required of combat soldiers? Lower the standards.
Since lowering the standards for any institution or requirement that the left wants to destroy is what we do, why have them? Why (Constitution aside) have standards for POTUS, Congress, or SCOTUS? Why have standards for lawyers, teachers, dentists, doctors or engineers? Why bother seeking the best of the best instead of the next person in line? What's wrong with having a president who is 4 years-old (Obama)?
This is just the next step in the destruction of this country. As it stands now, our military has been so deeply cut and is stretched so thin that we would have a hard time defeating the military of Holland.
Ignorant foreign governments still send their military here to learn from us so that, in a future war, we may not only have to fight the enemy, but fight our own tactics and strategies as well. Smart. And, when foreign military students take their training elsewhere such as Russia, China or Germany, will that be a wake-up call for us? I doubt it. We will have lowered the standards so much that no one will understand the implications.
If lowering the standards is the left's answer to everything (including citizenship), why not drop the pretense that we're a real country? Let's drop everything that represents America and just become a giant commune with no rules, no borders and no requirements.
If you can't tell, I am beyond disgusted.
How about letting women serve in ‘combat’ units as soon as we have a female JCS or Secretary of Defense.
There’s no surprise it happened; what’s surprising it happened that soon.
I would have expected them to wait at least a week.
A nation of subjects doesn’t need standards, except those shifting standards deemed necessary for the permanant control of the state, ie...obamacare, taxation of wealth producers, and social engineering.
Ladies and faggots will now be our frontline defense against the barbarians at the gate.....and all our guns will belong to Holder. Good luck, America!
I think that Hunt forgot the ROI that his Brother blown to sh%t in VN.
Maybe the Chinese are laughing but the Muzzies are scared to death.
Imagine one of these female soldiers getting their mitts on a Muzzie and castrates him and feeds him his own junk. You really think there will be a hearing?
Arm each woman warrior with a 10 pound slab of bacon and send them into battle. We will have the ME cleaned up in a month.
Weren’t they already letting someone on active duty go through sex change? I was wondering how that was working. Pretty soon the unions will get involved and demand 15 minute breaks on the battlefield and special nursing rooms for mothers.
I knew this was coming. I just thought it would take a few days, maybe a week or two. It only took 24 hours.
All of these people, including the traitorous generals at the top, are deliberately eviscerating our military and our Country.
LOL
Riiight. That'll last about 15 seconds. Having lived under several regimes of dual-standard, affirmative-action chicanery, I feel well qualified when I say that once you accept the arguement that social justice goals trump reality, you cannot adhere to a high standard for all. Either you drop standards for some, creating a two-tier regime that engenders contempt and hostility, or you drop standards for all, dramatically lowering the effectiveness of the whole organizationm.
Obviously the DOD has bought into the social justice priority. This will lead to an inevitable and ultimately devastating degradation of the whole force.
If I had a child, I would stongly counsel them to forget any notion of serving in this military. Sorry kids, but we done lost the culture war. All that remains is for us to lose the real one, and I fear that is all but inevitable.
WOW!!! Is this from the 'Onion'????
Even if they don’t admit it, they have already lowered standards. The people who meet the real standards have to take up the slack for those who are unfit.
Remember, most of the brass that gets up that high are usually asskissers.
I had to check to see if this article was satire or not.
This is kinda scary.
Chesty Puller was definitely not an AssKisser he was an Ass Kicker!
“Does it really have to be that high?”
Of course not, there’s nothing better than a lowest common denominator military.
Until it comes up against one of high quality...
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