Posted on 01/26/2013 9:56:19 PM PST by ReformationFan
Last Thursday Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and other U.S. military leaders lifted the ban on women serving in combat positions. I, for one, think this is a great idea and have a few modest proposals, if the brass inside the beltway is open to suggestions, on how they should deploy the dames (and whom they should deploy).
First off, if you truly want to eviscerate the enemy—namely Muslims—then I propose sending the most nerve grating and foul women Hollywood has to offer straight into hot zones as our forward armies. I’m a thinkin’ starting off with Roseanne Barr, Joy Behar and Lisa Lampanelli as our first offensive. Talk about shock and awe! The enemy would crap their pants (or whatever it is they wear).
Heck, those ladies wouldn’t even need to bring weapons, Leon. Just send this unholy trinity in with matching Frederick’s of Hollywood teddies juiced up on a pot of espresso and then have them confront hajji with their spurious insights, high-pitched, nasally voices and their unfunny comedic screeds, and our foes will shoot themselves in the face. War on Terror over. Boom. It’s that easy. You’re welcome.
If for some reason Barr, Behar and Lampanelli’s sensory assault on our enemies’ sensibilities doesn’t immediately devastate our adversaries then I suggest sending wave after wave of liberal college students, at the height of their PMS rage, into the thick of battle and have them quote Sandra Fluke and Lady Gaga at the top of their lungs. I believe (and I could be wrong) that this would absolutely demolish any forces that survived the initial onslaught of the Tres Amigas.
From a PsyOps standpoint you could work soft targets and wear down our foes and their enablers with Yoko Ono’s latest solo album blaring from trucks with loud speakers. On top of that scary scenario, we could simultaneously have choppers drop leaflets over the various villages warning them that if they don’t surrender now Yoko’s going to show up at their village and do a six-hour concert. They’ll fold up quicker than the Beatles did. Guaranteed. And radical Islam will leave us the heck alone for many, many moons.
With that said, I share the following concerns that my buddy who works with the U.S. Army and special forces has with deploying the ladies to combat positions:
1. One of the most significant issues with women in combat arms (MOS) is the lack of suitable hygiene. In other words, there are times in our military careers where we go through extended periods where we don’t have showers. Women have monthly hygienic concerns that a man doesn’t.
2. When the government mandates acceptance into a job/work force scenario, standards must be lowered to accommodate the numbers. Most females are not as strong as men. This will be a direct issue in combat. If you have a 5’10” male weighing 200 pounds, he will weigh between 250-275 pounds by the time he has donned a full combat load. How many women, after being hit by an IED (improvised explosive device), could drag 275 pounds out of a burning vehicle while drawing fire? Or how about if a unit is assaulting a radical Muslim compound and a soldier weighs 250-275 pounds. Can his female battle buddy pull him out of the room while shooting several muzzies in the face? This goes back to height, weight, psychological and physical exercise standards. If you lower the standards, the mission is compromised. Last year and this year the U.S. Marine Corps tried this by allowing women in their infantry school without lowering standards. Only two signed up, and neither made the grade. None signed up this year.
3. When soldiers deploy they live together, sleep together, eat together, shower together, and bleed together. So will women be given separate quarters and showers? What if a female platoon leader (in charge of 40 men) becomes pregnant? Will she go home? Will she have to stay in combat? What if she is the only female in the platoon … does she not have to bunk with a man?
4. Emotionally women are not made like men. There is nothing like being face to face with your enemy and pulling the trigger again, and again, and again. Women have been in combat zones and have performed excellently, but to put them in combat arms responsible for the killing of others has not happened yet. What is the emotional and psychological effect of this on women (not meant or created for war) versus men (who were created to protect and be warriors)?
5. What happens when the first female is captured in combat and brutally murdered? What about when al-Qaeda rapes a woman on video and uploads it to YouTube for all to see? How will the American public handle that? Will men act more carelessly and recklessly to spare their female counterparts than they would another man?
Look, I’m cool with and appreciate anyone wanting to give and/or receive a bullet on my freedom’s behalf, but I believe putting girls on the front lines of combat is a bad, bad, bad idea.
The left wants this. That is the whole point of the excercise.
You could very well be correct. They’ll use that incident to undermine our military even more than they have up to this point. The left hates our nation so much.
The liberals are telling us that this is a step forward for women, and that not having women in combat is discrimination, etc. etc. We’ll see how this goes over.
Roseanne Barr, Joy Behar and Lisa Lampanelli >>>>>>>>>>>
Diane Feinstein, Hillery Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi would also benefit from a slice of combat.They would effectively
show the enemy how American women can die for their country!
Constitution isn’t even considered anymore. Just that you like the idea or not.
Female enlistments will plummet, dramatically. Females won’t even bother going to recruiters, let alone being talked into joining by one. Guaranteed.
(What happens when the first female is captured in combat and brutally murdered? What about when al-Qaeda rapes a woman on video and uploads it to YouTube for all to see? How will the American public handle that)
The same way the should habdle any soldier being captured and brutalized by the enemy.
When soldiers deploy they live together, sleep together, eat together, shower together, and bleed together
Does this writer have zero knowledge about the military??
Women are already deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and have been the entoire time of the wars.........
When soldiers deploy they live together, sleep together, eat together, shower together, and bleed together
Does this writer have zero knowledge about the military??
Women are already deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan and have been the entire time of the wars.........
No, you see, that’s where you’re wrong. I have a friend who knows a guy who was in the infantry in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sometimes his infantry unit did missions where women went along (to search the local women, for example). Sometimes the women even got killed when things went sideways. That’s proof enough that women can do whatever the infantry do.
/sarc, sorry.
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Whatever happened to common sense?
Our enemies must be laughing at us.
Wait for the women to be drafted—its coming like the next big war—its just a question of when.
You're not eating your seed corn, you're turning it into ethanol.
If they want true equality, girls should be required to signup for Selective Service.
I don’t support the idea, it will lead to ugly things happening at some point.
That’s what happens on a battlefield.
A good number of the women currently serving are lesbians who can now be open about it.
I envision hi-tech lesbians and lower tech jihadis battling it out on police action battlefields around the world in the years ahead.
Another aspect of this is a purging of the military to put more politically reliable persons in charge of the advanced weaponry.
The progressive left’s mantra of “women and minorities” is all about putting leftists who happen to fit those descriptions into positions of power and influence.
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