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Report: Pentagon to open SEALs, Army Rangers to women
The Hill ^ | June 17, 2013 | Carlo Munoz

Posted on 06/17/2013 3:18:27 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: ansel12

What was missed, or swept under the rug, is that black’s muscle density disqualifies them for the extensive swimming requirements of either force. SEA air and land. Rangers swim too. It has to be all three in the capabilities.


101 posted on 06/17/2013 4:27:11 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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Extensive cost increases for negligible benefit if any. All in the name of what exactly?


102 posted on 06/17/2013 4:27:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DesertRhino

They can make the babies the men can rip the guts out of the enemy. Deal?


103 posted on 06/17/2013 4:27:48 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jazusamo

“”indirect action” missions, such as long-term training and advising efforts with foreign militaries”.... yeah, right... we’ll see how long that lasts and if these same are decorated as “combat” when they are in the theater but not the action.

The point of the spear is being dulled.


104 posted on 06/17/2013 4:29:46 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: central_va

Or shopping for camo bikini underwear for ghillie suits.

“Ewww..... bugs... I’m not doing THAT!”


105 posted on 06/17/2013 4:31:27 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: colorado tanker
"We slept on the tank and hopped off to do our business."

I was an armor platoon leader and company XO before being branch transferred to the MP Corps. During one NTC rotation, there was a soldier in one of our platoons, a tank driver, who had been born and bred a NYC street kid. When the OC's gave the initial safety brief, all this kid needed to hear where the words, "rattlesnake" and "scorpion," to make him decide to spend the whole rotation in his driver's hole.

He perfected the art of crapping in a .50 cal ammo can, which then conveniently "fell" off the side of the tank during engagements...

106 posted on 06/17/2013 4:32:14 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: ansel12
Standards can not be lowered, otherwise the elite units will not be elite. There will be no point in signing up if the standards are lowered. Period.

I have no problem allowing people to attempt to earn a place in one of these elite units as long as the highest standards are met. If they fail then they fail. There should be no quotas. We as a nation want only the very best of the best to earn their place in the units. That also means, that the regular units only put forward their best soldiers/sailors irregardless of their gender. I repeat, standards have to be met. Hopefully those standards will address your second paragraph. I have to admit the older I am getting the more I like the Four Seasons' amenities. IOW, where is the Spa? ; )

107 posted on 06/17/2013 4:32:49 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: DesertRhino
That percentage should be making Americas next families.

And who made you the fascist all knowing God?

108 posted on 06/17/2013 4:34:50 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: John S Mosby

The most amazing things happen when you google camo & bikini.

109 posted on 06/17/2013 4:35:17 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: John S Mosby

GT scores, water confidence, map reading and more.

Units that require a 110 GT score which is what is required for OCS, are already eliminating quite a few people, and my memory is that the Special Forces used to require a 115, back in the 60s and early 1970s.


110 posted on 06/17/2013 4:35:48 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
They are not on board ships to sexually service men. Thats what he was saying and I called him down on it. It was pretty pathetic. Why didn’t you call him out on it?

That is the takeaway you took from his post? He said that men got a little randy when in difficult situations. You never heard of make-up sex? How you extrapolated his remarks to get to yours is an exercise in feminine logic.

111 posted on 06/17/2013 4:36:23 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*ou)
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To: jazusamo

We haven’t actually done what it takes to win a war in 68 years, why start now?


112 posted on 06/17/2013 4:37:21 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Chgogal

Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends its cane-borne old men and its non-shaving boys deserves to be destroyed.


113 posted on 06/17/2013 4:37:29 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Chgogal
Standards can not be lowered, otherwise the elite units will not be elite. There will be no point in signing up if the standards are lowered. Period.

I think everyone here would agree with that sentiment. Unfortunately, the Army has already signaled that is intends to modify the standards to accommodate women, and I would be surprised if the SEALs and other units don't do the same.

You know, Hollywood keeps pumping out these movies and TV shows where 120-lb. women take 250-lb men and easily defeat them, etc. It seems like the Pentagon is now thinking that Hollywood reflects reality...

114 posted on 06/17/2013 4:37:53 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Chgogal
And who made you the fascist all knowing God?

So if you could ask John, Jesus, Paul and Mary if allowing women in combat was a good idea, what kind of response do you think that those individuals would give you?

115 posted on 06/17/2013 4:38:13 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DesertRhino
Fair, unfair, it makes that job less attractive to men, that’s just a fact.

I have to agree with you. A few years ago, when my nephew was in 8th grade I was preparing him for his English class. He was reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. He did good, but things changed so much since I was his age. In those days kids could play rough. They were allowed to build tree houses, play tag and Dodge Ball, go to practice by themselves without Mom driving them all over the place. We could roam the world literally.

Now, in those days no one told me nothing. And I'm betting my little sister could take you. She wasn't called the ferocious beast for nothing. ; )

116 posted on 06/17/2013 4:41:52 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: DesScorp; Chgogal
“But I wouldn’t close the door to the 0.0001% who can.” I would. Women have no business in combat jobs, period.

Oh, you made a double entendre, so funny! And so funny because so true. Exactly like one out of hundred guys is a pole smoker, so me and nine-eight others have to bend over? I don't think so.

117 posted on 06/17/2013 4:42:09 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU*ou)
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To: Chgogal
Obama, must you ruin everything with your idealogical idiocy?

That's his lifelong most-cherished goal; he lusts after it with every fiber of his being.

118 posted on 06/17/2013 4:43:02 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: NKP_Vet

No woman alive can pass Navy Seal training or Ranger training. Most men can’t. Standards WILL BE LOWERED.

I am sure you are correct. Standards will be lowered. BTW, don’t you mean SEAL as opposed to Seal? Just sayin. ; )


119 posted on 06/17/2013 4:44:27 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: jazusamo

As long as they have the same physical standards necessary to be a SEAL - good luck with Ol’ Misery


120 posted on 06/17/2013 4:46:51 PM PDT by struggle
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