They enter service wounded already and take about a week to stop the bleeding.
If they are wounded again in battle, how will their original wound affect their ability to perform...?
Wow, who would have ever thought that man and women are different physically?
Would future enemies treat captured American civilian women different knowing that they could eventually face them on the battlefield?
Combat units must be focused on the mission and their individual part in it. Combat troops have to know going in that their primary job is killing the enemy while keeping the soldier/Marine to his right and left alive, if possible. Combat troops will only function successfully if they are sure that everyone shares the risks equally and that there is no bias in critical decisions.
Distractions get people killed and are not worth marginal worth of making interest groups happy.
>>M]ales have 40% greater aerobic capacity, and higher endurance compared with females. Women’s smaller hearts require more blood to be pumped each minute at a given level of exertion because they have less hemoglobin in their blood to carry oxygen.
These differences will put women at a distinct disadvantage in newly opened infantry jobs,<<
We just have to tell our enemies not to be so damned sexist in how they fight us.
I mean, sheesh!
During WWII, the Soviets thought women combat soldiers were a good idea.
That lasted about two weeks.
What? You mean there really are differences between men and women’s bodies? Who knew?
But they can serve honorably and ably in other roles.
Here is a woman that served very honorably and rose to Admiral...This brilliant woman was wonderful!!!! A true role-model for young women who yearn to serve this great nation.
She created the first high-level language compiler..COBOL. It was an amazing feat..she had the RIGHT STUFF!
Maybe, just maybe, we as a society can have a discussion, about how the military is different in many ways from civilian life.
Which would mean, among other things, that laws and policies in civilian life to ensure equal opportunity for women, are not always appropriate in the military.
Liberals are caterwauling about Trump’s ban on transgenders in the military. They do so from what I think is a false premise, that the military should conform to how civilian life treats such people.
WE should have the meanest toughest fighting force needed to defend our country. And if that means transsexuals or women or other groups can’t serve or can’t serve in certain positions, tough blank. Go bitch about it on MSNBC. The military is not the civilian world.
Is anyone really named Jazz?
Try forty-two days in the bush. A shower was clean fatigues every third resupply, maybe.
Everyone came off of that with rashes, boils and other skin problems. Get dusted off for a boil? Not likely.
I can’t imagine a woman physically standing up to that wear and tear.
But every war is different and maybe these sorts of conditions won’t be encountered in the future.
They are at greater risk around wringers, too.
Agree but not likely to happen. The blame for all this lies squarely at the feet of the feminist movement which tried to convince everyone that men and women are the same, except for the fact that women can give birth.
I remember reading an article in sports illustrated in the late 80s that explained why female basketball players had more knee injuries than male basketball players. It was because men’s legs go straight down from the hips but women’s go slightly out to help with childbearing. There have been plenty of other studies showing how women suffer more injuries, and more serious injuries, from sports than men because of biological differences.
I spent 21 years in the military, two different branches, both active and reserve, as enlisted and officer, in combat and combat support units. In my opinion women should be in administrative units and medical units, all basic trainings should be sex segregated, and the service academies should be male only.
My 2nd oldest daughter of 3, I have 4 kids, youngest a son...
She is a Tomboy since birth, but not gay. She is going to enlist.
I asked why she wasn’t going to go into the airforce or such, MP...? She said that is boring, she wants to be in combat.
Ok... She is JUST LIKE ME, and I’m supporting her 100%.
I warned her... “Realize many/most women in the Army are Gay, and people will assume you are Gay....”
She says to me....
“Then I’ll talk to them about God”
Dang huh? She was born a few months before I signed up for FreeRepublic.
Wait... what?
I have no problem with women serving in the US Air Force as pilots or crewmembers. They have proven to ably do so for decades and it is not physically as harmful to their bodies.
Women should not be serving on ships or on the ground, where physical strength is required.
Bwhahahahahahhahahahahhaha
“Women’s smaller hearts require more blood to be pumped each minute at a given level of exertion because they have less hemoglobin in their blood to carry oxygen.”
What kind of a sexist thing is that to say!!?? That’s not allowed!!!
Grown women have the same athletic ability as 13 year old boys.
I was wondering how Israel handles this? They have mandatory requirements for military service for men and women, question is do they have mandatory requirements as far as duties they perform.
I did read awhile ago they had a transgender enlist as a woman.