Posted on 02/05/2013 7:24:58 AM PST by Nachum
It’s not all about qualification. I’m speaking as a female Marine Iraq war vet who did serve in the combat zone doing entry checkpoint duty in Fallujah, and we worked with the grunts daily for that time. All the branches still have different standards for females and males. Why? Because most women wouldn’t even qualify to be in the military if they didn’t. Men and women are different, but those pushing women into combat don’t want to admit that truth. They huff and puff about how women can do whatever men can do, but it just ain’t so. We’re built differently, and it doesn’t matter that one particular woman could best one particular man. The best woman is still no match for the best man, and most of the men she’d be fireman-carrying off the battlefield will be at least 100lbs heavier than she with their gear on.
Women are often great shooters but can’t run in 50-80lbs of gear as long, hard or fast as men. Military training is hard enough on men’s bodies, it’s harder on women’s. And until women stop menstruating there will always be an uphill battle for staying level and strong at all times. No one wants to talk about the fact that in the days before a woman’s cycle she loses half her strength, to say nothing of the emotional ups and downs that affect judgment. And how would you like fighting through PMS symptoms while clearing a town or going through a firefight? Then there are the logistics of making all the accommodations for women in the field, from stopping the convoy to pee or because her cycle started to stripping down to get hosed off after having to go into combat with full MOP gear when there’s a biological threat.
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I’ve had to sit thru some of the briefings in the past.
They will say, True women don’t have the upper body strenght.
Then they will say, women just have to carry loads differently.
They claim that women can carry the same load as a man just not on their backs/shoulders. Their is some new carrying techniques which I’ve never seen in action.
(They being the ones trying to convince everyone that this will work.)
There are still women in the maintenance fields who can’t break a torque wrench.
It appears you are a Realist so I’d simply ask that you allow the rest of us Idealists a moment to indulge in our optimistic fantasies of “back in the day”. :-)
You may have recently noticed my other flight of fancy, aka rant, regarding the US Military, specifically regarding a US Navy commercial on being “A Global Force for Good”: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2984705/posts
Feel free to check in to pull me back in to Realville (H/t Rush) And a pleasant day to you, my FRiend!!
Women can do one thing men cannot do: Get pregnant, and they do in droves during every deployment to avoid deploying. NOthing like being down 30-50% of personnel for that.
“A Global Force for Good” BWAAHAHAHAH! That’s barftastic. Thanks, but I think I’ll pass on the other thread. I don’t think I can take much more of this insipid and pernicious political correctness that’s driving virtually everything in the public sector, including the military.
And they all know anyone with a fractional brain is aware of such BS. Stepping around a blatant lie is what those sniveling liberal politicians do best.
The people that make these stupid a$$ decisions (such as women in combat) are liberals. Since when has anything they vomit made any sense? 90% of the crap we deal with (that comes from the government)was brought to you by some sock sucker on the left.
You are on the wrong side of this left wing political goal.
While I have no problem with women fighting and getting killed, I’m not for women in combat infantry roles.
Like I said, you are on the wrong side of this leftist goal by supporting this destruction of our military effectiveness.
ok
Read the article, it will educate you to something that you need educating on.
As I said earlier, if women want to be in combat, they have to be ready to pee and strip down with everyone else. They shouldn’t have separate latrines or showers. As for their period, treat it like any man that has a bout of dysentery...tough it out or fall behind.
That is incredibly silly, what does that have to do with military effectiveness and winning wars and minimizing loss of life, and at some point even being conquered in war?
Not a thing you’re right of course.
Not a thing you’re right of course.
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