The Germans had a name for their female auxiliaries in WWII: Field Mattresses.
Some things never change.
Posted on 12/09/2015 12:53:15 PM PST by QT3.14
Sergeant Major Lehew, a 27 year veteran of the United States Marine Corps, speaks the honest truth that no one wants to hear about women in combat.
Sergeant Major Justin Lehew is a beast among men. At a time where the entire military is absolutely terrified of speaking their minds, he personified moral courage. This man is a leader of Marines, and when it comes to protecting the combat effectiveness of the United States Marine Corps, he let his words speak without the fear of repercussion.
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I had the same problem with women in the Air Force in the USAF, in a Civil Engineering Squadron, as the NCOIC of the structural shop.
Not my daughters!
There are a lot of guys in the military that didn't want to be in the Infantry, but got put there anyway. Maybe it was their entrance test scores, "needs of the Army", or whatever.
Wait until a 5 foot tall, 95 lb. girl gets sent to Fort Benning against her will for Infantry training. She breaks her leg, back, or just gets killed on an obstacle course.
Wait a few years down the road when these gals have been in the Infantry for a few years and their knees, back, hips, etc. are completely ruined for life. The Med Boards (getting kicked out of the Army because your body is broken) are going to skyrocket.
I've been doing the Army thing for 25 years. Females just aren't interested in the Infantry. They join the Army to be medics or supply clerks. That's the stuff like actually like. There is NOT a demand for females to join combat jobs.
This whole thing is a scam.
It's not good for the nation and it's not fair to the naive girls that will be sent to do training that will absolutely destroy their smaller and weaker bodies.
And finally there will be the.....
Lawsuits Lawsuits Lawsuits.
The SGM is right that woman do not belong in the Infantry. The Infantry’s job is killing as our job is to close with and kill the enemy. We find them and blow them away. Shit happens and we do lose men. Woman do not belong in any infantry company.
Looks the part. I wasn’t expecting Brad Pitt anyway.
The Germans had a name for their female auxiliaries in WWII: Field Mattresses.
Some things never change.
Ironically, the one female that held her own was one in a CE unit at Keesler AFB. I met her one day outside my office when I heard someone picking up the coke machine and slamming it down because it had kept her money and didn't give her a coke. Her job? Carrying crossties while they were repairing the RR track to the food storage facility. She was a country girl from Kentucky that grew up in a house full of brothers and learned to hold her own. I met her several more times while I was stationed there and each time she was doing the work of a man each time.
You would not dare have a female hold open an engine cowl door while you pinned it. They were always the pinners. 141 and C5 doors weren’t light weight. Now they have actuators that lift the cowl doors on the newer engines.
My major problem, however is the potential for Selective Service System requirements being expanded to require women to register.
Having four daughters and now four granddaughters thus far, I've been following this issue for twenty years; yes, really for twenty years. I have twenty years of responses from elected representatives, as well as from the Selective Service System.
The letters all state that there is not need to be concerned, because the purpose for the Selective Service System is to database available men for combat roles. Since it is illegal for women to serve in combat (and it still is illegal, and the Pentagon cannot change this without Congress), women cannot be drafted. Therefore, they all tell me in writing (many times over a twenty-year period), there is no need to be concerned about my daughters or granddaughters being required to register.
NOW there is a strengthening movement to put women in combat roles. My contention is still that the Pentagon cannot do this legally without Congress. But what if it is done? And what if Congress does change the law and permits women to serve in direct combat roles?
Allowing women to serve in combat roles removes the distinction between men and women with regard to who is required (at ages 18 through 25) to register for Selective Service.
The potential then in time of conflict is that our women folk could be drafted, and drafted for combat roles: singe women and women with babies, infants, toddlers, young children.
At present, women may enlist. But to REQUIRE women to register and for there to be the potential for women to be forced into combat roles---this is too much for me to be approving of.
Were that to happen and many conscientious objectors among women arise, the next step would be for the government to create forms of alternative service, still requiring women to leave their homes and their children against their will to serve away from their home somewhere.
What about women who are raised with Biblical Christian standards of remaining at home to raise their children. These believe that their patriotism involves raising their children to be the next generation of character-instilled, Christian patriots in the form of statesmen, ministers and leaders, and yes, even soldiers. They believe that this is their calling and to be forced out of their homes would adversely affect their success in this calling. They firmly believe this to be their Christian calling in womanhood. To force these women to set aside this calling, even temporarily, should not be the choice of government or society.
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