Posted on 02/17/2012 7:39:24 PM PST by red flanker
I apologize, I thought it was obvious. I mean ambivalent of the services. A marine buzz would be OK for either sex, if I was king. But I’m not king.
Hey Martha.....take it from an old fellow Zoomie: Get over yourself.
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Yes, back when he was a Reagan Republican.
Exactly. This is typical Leftist thought. Rick Santorum is so conservative that he is "beyond the pale" of normal discourse so it is OK to react violently to him. Disagree with Rick because he is promoting some old-fashioned notion of gender roles? Well, say you are going to kick him in the balls for saying it and the Left gives this woman a collective "You go, girl!"
Exactly. Imagine her getting raped.
Do we want to send our mothers and sisters into something like that?
A coworker of mine once told me she could kick my a$$ because she was trained in kick boxing. I had 8” and 100lbs on her. I told her if it was a true fight, and she was unarmed, she would die.
Her instructor confirmed it. Technique has its place, but size beats it.
But manipulating an enemy's good conscience can stand on its own as a violation of Natural Law, and is in that sense orthogonal to the point of having women serve as soldiers. Muslims also use civilian men as human shields, and yet nobody is going to conclude from this that men should not be soldiers.
I do concede that it is plausible that I am wrong about it being withing God's law to allow women to be combat soldiers. I am just giving my current estimation for purposes of discussion and am not sold on it as a hardened position. Were I responsible for making policy, I would revisit the issue with more care.
she may have an “R” but is she a rino?
another pro-homo, anti-second amendment, anti-religion, pro-abortion, feminst who is a Rino out of convenience is not going to be of any use.
We don’t need another McCain who hides liberalism behind a combat past.
for those with knowledge: what exactly does “deployed weapons” mean? pulled the trigger and missed? hit? dropped a bomb? Is this like a john kerry recieved a purple heart deal? She few, pulled the trigger and now can claim “deployed weapons?”
based on some of the comments here.
AND THANKFULLY she is a primary candidate not the only primary candidate (so the MSM is just pussing a quota queen woman because the MSM only pushes the liberal women)
...she appears to be just a paper tiger candidate who was fast tracked through the military and did not do any serious military “combat”. As soon as she could be sidlined via school and teaching she was “parked” out of the way of doing any real damage.
She bailed on her military carreer because the opportunity opened up and it was apparent her serious career prospects were finished. She had her token rank and the prior brass had their display token of sufficient rank.
hopefully she will be primaried out and that will settle that.
A little late to the party here. There were several rapes of men by men in Iraq. The assaulting parties were listed as unknown. These were not captured soldiers but happened on post. Possibly our own butt rangers in the ranks or Iraqis or other nationality.
Men do get raped and it is reported but the MSM does not get involved. They always portray it as women are the only ones that are getting raped.
You’re right. It looks as if the PC forces have again triumphed. On the other hand, it appears that the battalion is mainly a gesture. The “integration” hasn’t gone beyond the battalion, despite having been around for quite awhile. If there is a shooting war, it will be interesting to see what they do with it.
‘Any “gal” who wants badly enough to be one of the guys to get a Marine shave haircut should be permitted. All others, nyet. Even Israel gave it up.’
I agree.
On a similar note, when is the government going to make the NFL hire female football players?
didnt you get the memo ? everything shifted left again, Republicans are now democrats, and democrats are now full blown marxists
Hundreds of women are killed every year because of political correctness and no one learns and fewer dare speak the truth with each passing month.
Agreed. The “combat” time ticket punch can and is regulary done for PC “up and comers”. Chances are the amount of actual “hot” missions McSally actually flew (and of THEM, the number of missions in which she flew some sort of “reserve” or “cover” role) were slim. “Commanders have other responsibilties, you know” - I can just hear it. Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester (again, I am skeptical concerning believing what I read) from all indications 100% deserved her medal. She was humble and dignified during the media’s coverage of the event. MPs in combat zones actually fill a real world role - unlike in garrison. On top of that, Sergeant Hester was an ENLISTED soldier. Not a whole lot of “honorary degrees” or “instructional positions” on her 201. I witnessed a number of commissioned types assigned to companies not deploying to Urgent Fury clamoring to get on “ash and trash” flights to the island toward the end of that very brief action JUST in order to “qualify” for the CIB, combat patch and subsuquent 201 file annotations. No doubt that sort of “ticket punching” is condoned all over the military.
Does Col. McSally kick her daddy in the "jimmy" with that foot?
Thanks for the explanation. I was exhausted this past week, maybe I was just slow on the uptake. :-)
*****My own daughter was 5’4”, and could take down of man of 200+ pounds with her boot at his throat in a matter of seconds.
Uh huh. I did mixed-gender martial arts for years and your daughter’s opponent was either physically impaired in some way, wildly incompetent, or they were both in a contrived training environment.
Can a woman injure a man in hand-to-hand? Sure. Can a woman learn to defend herself? Sure. Can a woman physically dominate a much larger opponent as you describe? No way. The only exception if that opponent is impaired (e.g. drunk) or it’s some sort of make-believe training environment.
Yes, but has she ever passed the men’s physical fitness standards?
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