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How Do You Feel About Women in Combat?
Spouse Buzz ^ | May 9, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 05/19/2012 11:01:09 AM PDT by QT3.14

The topic of women in combat has always been a touchy one. Many feel that while women should be allowed in the military, they do not belong in jobs that place them on the front line. Others believe that women are just as capable as men and should be given the opportunity to take on any role within the military.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: combat; equality; men; military; selectiveservice; war; waronmen; waronwomen; women
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To: QT3.14

Won’t work. But they’ll say it will.

CPT ARMOR
MACV 1971


44 posted on 05/19/2012 11:44:48 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: momtothree

Oh, it may make me look sexist, but I actually don’t care if they think that. Most women I know, and several are in the military, don’t ever want to be in combat.


45 posted on 05/19/2012 11:46:43 AM PDT by Thorliveshere
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To: QT3.14
The qestions that should be asked is:

are 'equal' for jobs, so why are they not protesting non-stop on the right to be drafted?

2. Politicians are pushing combat assignments. Why not the draft issue?

Because the Draft is a non-issue, not having been used since Vietnam. I do not believe the Draft could be reactivated in the USA at this time. Certainly, if it were to be used the issue of drafting woman woul d have to be addressed first. There is no way that parents and boys themselves would possibly agree to a system that excluded woman, after woman having been promoted as equal in every realm of society for 50 years.

So the existing law is a ridiculous artifact and doesn't effect anyone.

Any draft would have to include a large 'alternative service' which would be available to concientious objectors, and this would quickly turn into a giant welfare program resulting in slackers getting free stuff for life as having served in a capacity the equivlant of combat veterans. The CO's could conceivably outnumber the fighters.

No one in today's Army was drafted, so whatever issues the ladies have with their status the draft eligibility isn't part of it.

46 posted on 05/19/2012 11:47:00 AM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: QT3.14

Nope,sorry,I’m against.Although I’ve served in the Armed Forces I was never ordered within 5000 miles of a field of battle so I can’t claim any special insight but....the only female members of the Armed Forces that I’d want to see ordered into a combat area are physicians,nurses and other medical professionals.


47 posted on 05/19/2012 11:48:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")
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To: QT3.14
My Drill Instructor used to say, that in war, everywhere is the front line.

He was/is correct.

5.56mm

48 posted on 05/19/2012 11:48:58 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: QT3.14

No for Combat. No for Sea Duty which on 99% of the USN ships is also Combat Duty. I would never want my daughters to be in either circumstance for any reason.


49 posted on 05/19/2012 11:49:16 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: QT3.14
The qestions that should be asked is:

are 'equal' for jobs, so why are they not protesting non-stop on the right to be drafted?

2. Politicians are pushing combat assignments. Why not the draft issue?

Because the Draft is a non-issue, not having been used since Vietnam. I do not believe the Draft could be reactivated in the USA at this time. Certainly, if it were to be used the issue of drafting woman woul d have to be addressed first. There is no way that parents and boys themselves would possibly agree to a system that excluded woman, after woman having been promoted as equal in every realm of society for 50 years.

So the existing law is a ridiculous artifact and doesn't effect anyone.

Any draft would have to include a large 'alternative service' which would be available to concientious objectors, and this would quickly turn into a giant welfare program resulting in slackers getting free stuff for life as having served in a capacity the equivlant of combat veterans. The CO's could conceivably outnumber the fighters.

No one in today's Army was drafted, so whatever issues the ladies have with their status the draft eligibility isn't part of it.

50 posted on 05/19/2012 11:53:56 AM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: QT3.14
Limit your audience. Only ask the people who have been there and done that...The rest should be quiet up and politely listen to them, combat isn't a game or a boys only club.


51 posted on 05/19/2012 11:54:31 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: ansel12
What you need to do is dig back in the more hidden and unimagined recesses in your family genealogy until you get to the White Coats.

They came from France in the world's only army already open to Jews, and they lost.

Nobody took them back home.

Many went South into the Ohio country.

That's what happens when you lost a major war ~

52 posted on 05/19/2012 11:56:08 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: QT3.14

100% negative.

It upsets my patriotism as I don’t respect countries that send their women to war.


53 posted on 05/19/2012 11:57:42 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: cva66snipe

HELL YES, put them on point, or let them work the flank, give them K rations for a month at a time, let them go for two or three weeks without a shower, let them enjoy all of the fun of combat. They have been yelling and screaming for equal treatment for years, let them dig latrines, and then use them. I am sick and tired of women all the time yammering and yowling, let them enjoy the real world.


54 posted on 05/19/2012 12:03:23 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 (I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds my future.,)
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To: Roklok

“Sheer stupidity. Going to get a lot of good men killed.”

And women of childbearing years. Which is probably the point.


55 posted on 05/19/2012 12:03:42 PM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am." - Willard M Romney)
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To: VanDeKoik

How does that emotional outburst make any logical sense in regards to this liberal agenda to weaken our Military?


56 posted on 05/19/2012 12:03:45 PM PDT by ansel12 (When immutable definition of Bible marriage of One Man, One Woman, is in jeopardy, call the Mormon.)
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To: QT3.14
The idea is part of a many faceted attack on the multi-generational concepts that made traditional Western culture possible. While not an oxymoron, like the suggestion that people of the same sex could actually marry, it is still at least "half-baked."

The traditional concept that it is a male duty, in any rational society, to protect the women & children, was significant factor in a Chivalric code that has brought out the best in soldiers over the past 1200+ years. It reflects of course the, on average, better upper body strength of the male, so important to traditional combat; but it also is provides the motivation to the "above & beyond" the basic call to patriotic duty. It is in fulfilling such a male role that many see the proof of their own manhood.

When you compromise that call to a higher standard, you damage something that is not readily replaceable.

Of course, the "let's pretend" world that Leftist movements seek to impose, needs to pretend that people are interchangeable--that Equality, not excellence, must be the goal. But that compulsion driven pursuit will not bear critical analysis.

For the Feminist Absurdity, in general, see Delusion, which looks at several aspects of the Feminist war on femininity, and female excellence.. For a look at other aspects of the lunacy of Collectivist/Egalitarianism, see Sabotage.

William Flax

57 posted on 05/19/2012 12:06:38 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: QT3.14

The opinion of non military professionals about war, is nonsense..
Thats why we have military colleges..

Democrats in military school is a mistake.. most are traitors.. essentially..
Truthful Political ideology is basic.. Lie detector tests should be mandatory..


58 posted on 05/19/2012 12:06:39 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: QT3.14

Considering many believe our troops are being groomed to be used against us, well, I’d rather face women and queers than men.


59 posted on 05/19/2012 12:07:30 PM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called “gay” instead.)
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To: Washi

Agreed, but they need to be in all-women units. No way are most women physically capable of dragging/hoisting a male when it is needed the most.


60 posted on 05/19/2012 12:08:14 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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