Posted on 12/13/2015 10:46:23 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Fem weapon? Show some respect. Pillow fights
are too dangerous for West Point!
U.S. Military Academy officials said Wednesday they have banned the annual pillow fight by first-year cadets after a bloody clash between “plebes” this summer at West Point left 30 injured, including 24 diagnosed with concussions.
On 20 November 1943, during the horrific fighting on Betio atoll during the battle of Tarawa, two Japanese tanks mounted a counterattack against the fragile Marine toehold on Red Beach 3. The Marines were huddled there at the base of a seawall in the face of withering fire from the rikusentai of Admiral Keiji Shibasaki’s fanatical Japanese Naval Landing Force defenders who were slaughtering hundreds of their 2nd Marine Division comrades in Betio Lagoon during 76 hours of some of the most savage fighting in the history not only of the Marines, but the US armed forces.
Marine anti-tank gun crews were trying to figure out how to get their 912 lb 37MM M3 antitank guns over the 7 foot plus seawall. The battery commander ordered his 5 man crews to LIFT them over. Being Marines who always obeyed even seemingly impossible orders, they did EXACTLY that and promptly knocked out the tanks. They then engaged several enemy bunkers whose dual purpose guns were repeatedly knocking out the approaching landing craft and put them out of action. Finally they routed a local counter attack of 200 or so Japanese against the south shore of Red Beach 3 with canister shot, all of this at a critical and precarious point in the landing.
Whats that about upper body strength being not as important
in modern warfare anymore and that women are just as likely to be able to do the job of combat infantry?
Familiarize your self with the case of Merril’s Marauders in WWII in the China Burma India Theatre. From Feb-May of 1944, the men of “Galahad Force†were subjected to the most grueling long term commitment probably of ANY US combat unit in history. They were tasked with a long range deep penetration operation. At the end of it, almost every man was wracked by dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus, cholera, and any number of debilitating diseases that sapped their strength to far below whatever it was when they began the operation. Their mission had been extended and lengthened several times, and their debilitated condition was not deemed sufficient to allow them relief.
I fear we are losing the institutional memory of having faced enemies that are capable of defeating us on the battlefield. We have not faced such an enemy since the summer/winter of 1950 on the Korean Peninsula. The names of Task Force Smith, the 1st Battles of Taejon and Seoul, the Pusan perimeter and the withdrawal from the Chosen resovoir seem but distant memories. The cultural marxists now in charge of the Obama administration are indulging in the sort of social experimentation SURE to result in defeat or serious setback against an enemy capable of projecting the sort of battle field power that would lead to the battlefield reverses that the US Army suffered at Kasserine Pass, the Hurtegen Forest, the Rapido River or the Rangers at Cisterna.
I mean no disrespect to the female perssonnel of the US Armed Forces who have served and ARE serving their nation honorably and well. I respect them as fellow vets and comrades in arms. Policy decisions are above their level for the most part.
But as a matter of POLICY, I think that women should be excluded from the armed forces for the most part, with a few exceptions and COMPLETELY from combat and most combat support roles, particularly when the armed forces are a small percentage of the total population, as is the case now. The use of significant numbers of women should be reserved for large scale mobilization as was the case in WWII. The population base is more than twice as large now as then and there would be no problem securing a sufficient number of qualified men with appropriate incentives for such a relatively small armed forces.
The advantages for the armed forces, particularly the Army would be greater flexibility as to how personnel can be deployed in combat emergencies and other contingincies and a lesser logistical strain as involves clothing, barracks and housing, and innumerable other considerations that are exclusive to the maintainance of large numbers of women. I think morale and discipline would also be improved as well.
The courts have repeatedly ruled that the armed forces are exempted from many of the equal opportunity requirements of the civillian world, and for the very good and sufficient requirements that are unique to the armed forces. This contretemps is being propelled largely by the cultural marxist wing of gender equity feminism who wish for the placement of a leftist Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The resultant detriment of the ability of the armed forces to fight plays no consideration in their calculus, other than as an peripheral side benefit.
I know that women have played a vital role during guerrilla, partisan warfare and sabatoge/espionage activity. But to deliberately employ them in ground combat units whose primary task is to close with, engage and destroy similar enemy units is the height of lunacy and madness given the effort required to identify the relative few who could qualify even if we ignore the potential detriments to morale and discipline.
This is sheer and utter madness akin to allowing open homosexuals to serve in the armed forces.
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The hell you say. On the off-chance you believe what you're saying:
In 2011, the United States Department of Justice compiled homicide statistics in the United States between 1980 and 2008.[4] That study showed the following:
Libs? You’ll see the same sentiments on this very thread.
I caught part of an interview with the Sec. of Navy yesterday and he talked about women banding together on the obstacle course to help each other over the climbing wall as an example of how ‘different thinking’ would be an asset on the battlefield.
We are so screwed...
McLaughlin isn’t dead yet? He’s gotta be 90 by now.
Does he still use Eleanor You’re Swellanor Clift?
I think the poster is including baby murder.
Agreed.
Good post!
“How on earth does putting women into roles that are not capable of performing improve combat readiness?”
It fills the same void as putting unqualified students into universities that they are not capable of graduating from and provides an opportunity to run those universities and take it to the man.
Combat readiness is s moot point - its combat losses that count. It formulates a future crisis which enterprising and aspiring dictators can take an advantage.
Then there are these women, though I doubt they would fight against a Muslim . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfIi0ZSVOPs
Yep-—it it why the return to the pederastic sodomite days of Ancient Greece and Rome-—the Spartan cult that so enamored the homosexual SA along with the pervert Hitler (Lively, Hari).
All Fascist movements like the Bolshevik Revolution, the French Revolution were founded by the sodomites-—males who lust after other males and want to dominate the young, virile males. It is why pederasty is “normal” for homosexuals, who are the macho ones and can never abide the effeminate homosexuals (totally emasculated males) and will kill them along with the women and children whom they despise and use as needed—for breeding and producing more boys for harems.
All paganism/satanism promotes the sodomization of others-—to destroy the Christian Worldview of true “love” (selflessness). The ability to love the “Other” (true diversity/maturity) for a fixation in a puerile, narcissistic, idolatry of hate of the Other for love of self (pure narcissism and hate of God and Natural Law—basis of US Law) which is caused by child abuse and the inability to mature (Love).
As Machiavelli stated-—all you have to do to destroy a military is promote vice....and that is why the first thing that evil sodomite muslim CIC did was to normalize bestiality and sodomy (paganism/satanism and ban Christianity) in our Justice System /military system-—to collapse civil society (Western Civilization) on purpose.
Wait a minute...next you’re going to be saying that women shouldn’t be firefighters just because they don’t have the upper body strength necessary to operate the hoses and rescue unconscious adults.
Isn’t it enough she’ll be there to provide comfort as you burn to death in your vehicle because she doesn’t have the ability to lift you out of it? She’ll be crying for you, darn it, as she watches you burn — how could you possibly demand more from a firefighter?
Now go look at the abortion numbers. Cold-blooded murder.
Yeah, but those butt-burgling Spartans watched each other die with pride. No matter how much Fred loved Keith.
Great post and of course you’re 100% right. This is not Obama’s call, it takes Congressional action, and the change should be summarily ignored. It’s against the law. Congress has never voted to allow women in combat for one reason. They are not that damn stupid and they want to be reelected. So they punt, thinking no one will notice and call them on it.
Yes, thanks. Apparently, if the Regime doesn’t count murdered babies in homicide statistics a least one Freeper doesn’t think it’s murder.
Yeah, I know I’m asking a lot, but, darn, times are tough and I need them to preform to the best of their ability towards getting that Fire Chief job!
That’s precisely the point. Neuter the Armed Forces.
You’re entitled to your own opinion,
but not your own facts.
While I personally don’t think women should be in the combat forces of the U.S. for the various reasons already cited I would point out that in Israel women are required to perform military obligations the same as the men and apparently are just as effective.
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