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Study Finds Women Don't Belong in Combat
Aruz Sheva ^ | 6/11/2014 | Gil Ronen

Posted on 06/11/2014 12:21:35 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie

New book shows women in combat suffer much more serious non-combat injuries, alleges IDF cover-up.

A new book sums up 13 years of research on female participation in IDF combat units and declares the feminist experiment in the Israeli military a failure. “Lochamot Betzahal” by Col. (res.) Raza Sagi, a former infantry regiment commander, points to high rates of serious injury among women serving in combat units, and to involvement of radical political groups behind the scenes of the campaign for combat service by women.

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"The study found that a particularly high percentage of women who served in combat roles suffered physical harm during their service and will suffer for the rest of their lives from ruptured discs, stress fractures in the pelvis, uterine prolapse and more,” Sagi told Maariv/NRG.

While men also suffer injuries during their military service, he said, studies prove that the female rate of injury is much higher and that the seriousness of the average injury is greater, with entire platoons sometimes unable to function because of the physical state of the female soldiers. The injuries referred to are incurred in training and routine deployment – not actual combat.

"The idea that there is no difference between men and women in the army is a ridiculous one that has been disproved in all of the world's militaries,” Sagi insisted. “One cannot defeat evolution. In days in which a meaningful reduction of the defense budget is required – there is no doubt that the matter of placing women in combat roles requires reassessment.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: bhodod; bookreview; cicobama; militarywomen; womenincombat
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To: Qiviut
Reminiscent of Rush's “Amazon Battalions”
21 posted on 06/11/2014 1:49:26 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Bigg Red

And make the enemy promise to send only all-women platoons against them.

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I’m sure they’d agree ... especially after we showed such good faith and released their 5 dudes back to them.


22 posted on 06/11/2014 2:22:59 PM PDT by Qiviut ( Dave Brat was “Eric Cantor’s Term Limit” BOOM!! Yes, We the People CAN vote the b@stards OUT!!!)
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To: Qiviut
For any women that really, really want to go into battle and fight, have all-women platoons. Women won’t have to try to drag wounded men to safety, but might be able to drag another woman. Platoon tasks could be “lighter” so there are less “ruptured discs, stress fractures in the pelvis, uterine prolapse and more”. Women medics would certainly be knowledgeable and empathetic to all womanly issues. No problems with privacy, sleeping arrangements, etc.

No, you're not thinking like a modern leftist.

The real solution is to file a lawsuit for sex discrimination and hostile work environment against any enemy force that sets up the battlefield in such a way that generally physically weaker soldiers are discriminated against or not accommodated in performing their battle-related employment duties. They deserve the right to have their workplace environment represent the realities of their training, rather than some external and internally incoherent and indefensible truth claim about reality.

OSHA needs to be involved as well, from the very beginning, in assessing battlefield suitability and assigning appropriate safety equipment to personnel who may be subjected to loud noise, heavy loads, flying debris, chemical and/or radiation exposure, and other worksite hazards.

The NLRB probably should also help out, making sure that all battlefield employees are guaranteed fair representation against workplace oppression and exploitation by management.

Perhaps even the entire enterprise should be reconceptualized away from patriarchal, imperialistic, and cryptofascist models of organization into a more open and welcoming business model such as a co-op.

I'm sure there are other options that could be explored.

23 posted on 06/11/2014 2:24:02 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: TurboZamboni

Reminiscent of Rush’s “Amazon Battalions”

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This would make for amazing recruiting posters.


24 posted on 06/11/2014 2:24:06 PM PDT by Qiviut ( Dave Brat was “Eric Cantor’s Term Limit” BOOM!! Yes, We the People CAN vote the b@stards OUT!!!)
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To: FateAmenableToChange

I’m impressed .... and you’re exactly right .... the leftists would LOVE this. The solution you’ve laid out could likely be modified slightly to work for gay soldiers as well.


25 posted on 06/11/2014 2:28:54 PM PDT by Qiviut ( Dave Brat was “Eric Cantor’s Term Limit” BOOM!! Yes, We the People CAN vote the b@stards OUT!!!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Men and women are built differently? Who knew?!


26 posted on 06/11/2014 2:32:17 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I have worked with mostly men in IT. I can say with certainty that men are easily distracted by a woman’s presence. Distraction in combat is a very bad thing.


27 posted on 06/11/2014 2:42:25 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Uncle Miltie

They needed a study?


28 posted on 06/11/2014 2:42:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ZULU
Don’t expect reason and logic to sway the morons who instituted this discredited policy. They are morons.

They're only morons if they're on our side.

If they're the enemy, they're frickin' geniuses.

29 posted on 06/11/2014 2:56:46 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Gen.Blather
I’m sure there are plenty of women who would do well in combat. There are also many men, especially among our new metrosexuals who are as unqualified at most women.

Why post such nonsense?

30 posted on 06/11/2014 3:31:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: Qiviut

The more I wrote, the more I started to see that it wasn’t really satire any more....


31 posted on 06/11/2014 3:33:53 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: Qiviut
For any women that really, really want to go into battle and fight, have all-women platoons.

Usually that is mentioned as a serious idea, what battles can America afford to lose, what units can our Army and Marines just allow to be wiped out and destroyed in combat, for humor?

32 posted on 06/11/2014 3:34:04 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Ted Cruz and Mike Lee-both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Comm as Ginsberg's importance fades)
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To: Uncle Miltie

humph. Who would have thought it?

did you know bears... never mind.


33 posted on 06/11/2014 3:34:25 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: FateAmenableToChange

The more I wrote, the more I started to see that it wasn’t really satire any more....

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I’d say that’s pretty “shocking”, but I’m not shocked any more by anything Obama/Leftists are doing these days.


34 posted on 06/11/2014 4:24:27 PM PDT by Qiviut ( Dave Brat was “Eric Cantor’s Term Limit” BOOM!! Yes, We the People CAN vote the b@stards OUT!!!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Someone should tell General Obama; or is it because he already knows this that he wants those women in the fray?

After all, he’s preferred men all his life.


35 posted on 06/11/2014 4:54:03 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: cherry
I also believe that there should be and must be a natural inclination to place children with their mothers in custody battles, barring absolute ineptitude...

Oh my gosh. While I agree with you in a sweepingly general sense, but not in every case by any means, you must be looking for a flame war on FR from the father's rights crowd!

36 posted on 06/11/2014 5:27:44 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Qiviut; Bigg Red
have all-women platoons.... Platoon tasks could be “lighter”

I am not kidding you here; a friend of mine who was a retired Naval Commander. One of his neighbors had a daughter who enlisted in the Army after 9/11. Every time she didn't like some requirement or another, she would call her mother and ask her to call her CO. Can you imagine?

37 posted on 06/11/2014 5:31:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: FateAmenableToChange

If you haven’t blogged that fine piece of writing in post 23, you certainly should — LOLs!


38 posted on 06/11/2014 5:33:13 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Well somebody has to make the sammiches.
39 posted on 06/11/2014 5:39:52 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Fedupwithit

Well think about it. Who would you rather have fighting in the foxhole with you Obama or Hitlery? I mean come on she is combat ready. :-)


40 posted on 06/11/2014 6:11:09 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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