Posted on 02/04/2016 10:11:21 AM PST by jazusamo
The first woman in Tennessee and the fourth in the nation to enlist as a combat engineer in the Army went AWOL last month and is now considered a deserter, according to a military spokesperson.
Erika Lopez made headlines in July when she enlisted for a role that could put her on the front lines of battle, just after the U.S. Army lifted its ban on women in combat roles.
Ms. Lopez was in basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, by September but was placed on convalescent leave by the end of the year, according to a local CBS affiliate.
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Sleep well, Europe.
That guy on the right is pretty stout.
I don’t wish to punish anyone . I am a Nam Vet ,, (1965-67) many good men broke down in combat ,, it is the most stressful job on earth . Women do not belong there in a combat capacity . Perhaps all these traditionalist young woman would band together and stop this gender bending nonsense by using their political influence . The last thing I want to see is a woman in the infantry getting her body parts blown off .
I do not think that Mrs. Gator would like that post lol.
Doubt it. The way I read this is that she was in OSUT. She would have been chaptered out.
Eileen was generally good on screen.
That might embarrass someone in Virginia. I expect it will be all tidied up as an 'administrative oversight'.
Now she will be disgraced for the rest of her life.
As a traditional Christian man, I agree with the call to register every female from 18-45, as every man must. Then, all of the men and women of faith and reason who oppose it must defy the order and make it a national issue.
Otherwise, it is a mess that cannot be fixed- we do not need women in the military let alone combat arms. That said, I have a daughter in the USAF and she knows my position.
As a career retired Army type ( enlisted INF and commissioned Eng), I can attest to the extreme lost days by females of every rank and grade in units I have been assigned to. Female trouble, emotional issues, child care issues, higher rates of injury compared to men- basically I needed to deploy with 3 females for every one assigned IOT have one complete the mission-while requiring excessively more man hours spent processing, transporting and replacing said females.
There is an army study somewhere that approaches this cost factor in similar methodology. Having to have 20-30% more personnel on the rolls to complete the same number of man hours of effort is silly, PC and stupid.
Can women fill non-combat roles in the Army and Marines? What is a non-combat role? A clerk typist in the Army can be assigned to a company- any company- I expect those truck driving females in IRQ c. 2003 thought they would not be shooting to save their lives. And, the outcome was decisive-they lost.
Females are too valuable to expend in combat except in case of direct and over-whelming ground attack of our homeland-non where lese should females deploy, and by extension, none should be in deployable units. Sorry if I offend any serving ladies, but then if you were a male, you wouldn’t get offended, I think.
If my sons have to register why shouldn’t your daughters?
That’s the feminist position, thanks for reminding us of what the feminist movement has been arguing for 40 years. No difference between men and women, and they shouldn’t be treated differently. They feminist lefties have really won their feminist revolution, when even a “conservative” site like FreeRepublic is echoing their arguments.
Not echoing their arguments. Just tired of the double standard. They want the good then they get the bad too.
Not echoing their arguments. Just tired of the double standard. They want the good then they get the bad too.
You can say that’s not the feminist line, but you’d be wrong — as wrong as if you were saying pro-abortion isn’t the feminist line. It’s a measure of how much they’ve conquered our culture, that somebody who considers himself conservative - as you probably do - spouts the feminist line without even realizing it. The idea of drafting women never occurred to anybody before feminism brought it up, and it took them 30 years to change the culture enough that even “conservatives” now speak their language.
That’s Beulah Balbricker !
What is that? Is that pic real?
Way too much stress for a woman to handle. This women in combat stuff needs to be stopped. Its not fair to the women or the military.
I did 20 in USAF aircraft maintenance, it's not much better there either.
They can't lift a C-5 CSD & Generator for example, can't handle some of the other heavy lifting, get fatigued more quickly, can't carry a toolbox up a stand to access the engine, and on and on...when pregnant, they immediately go on light duty that precludes working on the shop floor due to hazardous materials and now, with 12 weeks of post birth maternity leave, the unit has lost a body for 1 year.
If any women get offended by this, sorry. Them's the facts.
Try imagining them in artillery.
I watched a video of USMC artillery, and they were humping 155mm artillery shells off the back of a truck. They were pulling them off at chest height, duckwalking them over 15 yards, putting them on the ground, then going back and getting another one.
I think they are somewhere around 100 lbs per round.
Sure, there are women who could do that. But the average woman could not.
When in a combat situation, I can certainly imagine times where that nice loader and transporter thingie is not going to be available, or you are simply in a situation where you gotta move the rounds fast using a bunch of people.
And facts are stubborn things.
Perhaps not right now, when political correctness can completely obscure and shelter the facts, but when it comes to a bunch of soldiers doing hand-to-hand combat from and in foxholes, those facts become very stubborn indeed.
But the liberals tell us physical strength isn’t important to be a combat soldier nowadays. It’s all push-button wars, dontcha know.
Frigging idiots.
Very true. Even women that can do it would have to be able to sustain that under some conditions and it’s doubtful many, if any have the stamina.
A team is only as good as its weakest person and that’s basically why the study by the Marine Corps on women in the infantry recommended against women in combat.
Agreed, but it’s those soldiers in combat who pay the price, which I find completely unacceptable.
My initial post was a sort of schadenfreude...I’m hoping that once the reality of the “equality” of it all sinks in, that they work to get it revoked....then again, hoping isn’t much of a battle plan.
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