Posted on 12/03/2015 10:16:18 AM PST by NKP_Vet
In a historic change for the American military, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter on Thursday announced that the Pentagon will open all combat jobs to women.
"There will be no exceptions," Mr. Carter said at a Pentagon news conference.
The groundbreaking decision overturns a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, infantry and other such combat roles, even though in reality women often found themselves in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. Carter said that, after a three-year review, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Special Operations Command agreed that all combat positions should be open to qualified women.
Only the Marine Corps, he said, requested some exemptions.
But Mr. Carter said he overruled the Marines to open all combat positions to women because the military should operate under a common set of standards. The Marine Corps has long held concerns that integrating women into combat units could erode morale in all-male platoons and lead to increased sexual tension that would undermine fighting capability. But a Marine Corps study made public by a women's advocacy group this week found that after months of testing mixed-gender combat units, troops reported morale equal to that of all-male groups and higher than noncombat integrated groups.
In addition, the study found sexual assault levels no higher than in the Marines as a whole.
Nancy Duff Campbell, co-president of the National Women's Law Center, praised the announcement.
"It's a thrilling day for women serving in the military -- and for women across the country," she said. "We applaud today's announcement that knocks down the last remaining official barrier to women's military service and ensures the full integration of women into all military jobs, positions and units."
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bad move , dump this jerk AND his ‘boss’
ASAP
the clueless are driving the train off the tracks
When will the USMA begin challenging sex segregated sports teams.
A 9 year old boy makes a better soldier than a woman.
“In declining states the leadership intuitively chooses the most harmful course of action.”-F. Nietzsche
Another political maneuver which if overturned by a future administration for obvious reasons, will give a talking point to the “war on women” narrative
The only people happy about this is ISIS - imagine what will happen to the first female’s who are taken prisoner by them. And it will happen......
what a perfect response to terrorism- weaken our front lines- Patton would be proud of our commandeer in chief
Next president had better switch this back on 01/21/2017. And I’m a girl. And a combat veteran (mobile surgical tents get bombs thrown at them)
Because the U.S. military is no longer concerned with actual defense of the U.S., just with advancing liberal social issues.
what a perfect response to terrorism- weaken our front lines- Patton would be proud of our commandeer in chief
Patton would smack the crap out of the POS.
Women don’t belong on the front line for so many reasons. If you put a woman on the front line she better be able to do EVERYTHING a man can do. Same minimum requirements.
'Will America make it to Jan. 20th, 2017?'
It's anyone's guess.
I certainly hope Delta, Green Berets, SEALs, and other combat units will be 50% female by decree. I wouldn’t want the military to discriminate against eligible soldiers or sailors based on something as trivial as upper body strength, physical endurance, or muscle mass.
The vast majority of the time, those qualities are not relevant to the task at hand, with rare exceptions lasting a mere few minutes (or hours at most) a handful of times in a career.
Leftism is a severe form of mental illness.
The overarching goal is population control. They don’t CARE if the women will be qualified. As long as they are injured or killed and bear no subsequent children.
Yet professional baseball remains exclusively male.
One more thing for President Trump to reverse.
How many men will come home dead because of this decision?
The destruction of Americas combat readiness continues.
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