[SweetPilotofCanuckistan]

I agree, as long as we're not talking about removing women from combat aviation. There's a difference between being in the air and on the ground.

Also, we have to look at the reasons the military wants women - because there aren't enough brave young men willing to defend their country - too many cowards.

[dsc]

"I agree, as long as we're not talking about removing women from combat aviation. There's a difference between being in the air and on the ground. "

Woman are, if anything, even more out of place in a cockpit than in a foxhole.

I don't care if it's karate, knife fighting, boxing, infantry combat, CIC on a ship of the line, or an aircraft, fighting is fighting, and women are just not wired for it.

There may be some women that can sometimes do better than mediocre men, but the best men will always be better than the best women. Always.

Fighter jocks are the best of the best of the best. IOW, no woman could possibly qualify on a level playing field, or be anything other than a danger to the men around her if affirmative actioned above her ability.

Besides, what is the point of fighting a war if the women are dead at the end of it? Men might as well slit their own throats and spare themselves the trouble.

[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

I agree, as long as we're not talking about removing women from combat aviation. There's a difference between being in the air and on the ground. Also, we have to look at the reasons the military wants women - because there aren't enough brave young men willing to defend their country - too many cowards.

At any point a combat pilot can become infantry all it takes is a mechanical malfunction.

The military does not women, it has had women forced upon it. I was in the Navy when they intergrated boot camp in the early 90's. Talk about lowering standards. When I went through the boot camp companies were seperated by sex. The male companies would get pounded on daily for the smallest infractions. Our sister company always bragged about hardly ever being cycled.
Since the companies are now co-ed, the training is suited to the lowest common denominator, women.