PC Insanity: Female Marines Can’t Do Pullups But Will Be Allowed to Serve on Front Lines Anyway

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 12-28-2013 | Jim Hoft

[grateful]

As a female, I wholeheartedly believe that if a female can't meet current standards, they shouldn't be allowed in that position. This involves peoples' lives. Corners shouldn't be cut when lives are on the line.

I have a friend who was a female volunteer firefighter/EMT in the 1970's. She faced a lot of flack, but she gained respect because she could do the job to the current standards. She didn't expect them to make exceptions for her because she knew there might come a time when she might have to pull a victim or one of her male counterparts out of a dangerous situation.

[NKP_Vet]

A nation that sends it’s women to fight it’s wars is not fit to be called a nation.

[DMZFrank]

I saw it coming when women were admitted to West Point back in 1974 or so. I said this sad state of affairs was absolutely going to happen and was hooted down then. I now say that this will become quota driven, and undoubtedly I will be ridiculed again.

[DMZFrank]

On 20 November 1943, during the horrific fighting on Betio island during the battle of Tarawa, two Japanese tanks mounted a counterattack against the fragile Marine toehold on Red Beach 3. The Marines were huddled there in the face of withering fire from Admiral Keiji Shibasaki’s fanatical Japanese Naval Landing Force defenders who were slaughtering hundreds of their comrades in Betio Lagoon during 76 hours of some of the most savage fighting in the history not only of the Marines, but the US armed forces.

Marine anti-tank gun crews were trying to figure out how to get their 912 lb 37MM M3 antitank guns over the 7 foot plus seawall. The battery commander ordered his 5 man crews to LIFT them over. Being Marines who always obeyed even seemingly impossible orders, they did EXACTLY that and promptly knocked out the tanks. They then engaged several enemy bunkers whose dual purpose guns were repeatedly knocking out the approaching landing craft and put them out of action. Finally they routed a local counter attack of 200 or so Japanese against the south shore of Red Beach 3 with canister shot, all of this at a critical and precarious point in the landing.

Whats that about upper body strength being not as important in modern warfare anymore and that women are just as likely to be able to do the job of combat infantry?

[DMZFrank]

The USMC is a great fighting organization with a proud and glorious history. Notwithstanding that I would pit any of the Army platoons in which I served and trained against any Marine infantry platoon any time anywhere. In every major war the US Army does most of the fighting, kils and captures most of the enemy, and captures most of the ground, if for no other reason then that it is the largest ground combat outfit.

In Vietnam on the DMZ I served on joint ops with the 26th Marines. They were a great outfit but they were no more effective against the tough NVA than my boys.

[huldah1776]

The Marines I know don’t go over the wall, they blow it up.

[wardaddy]

Post 3 on this thread says it best I've ever read

Really nice bryan

Any nation sending women into the front lines of combat is either fighting for it’s very survival..... or dying from within

[wardaddy]

Don’t waste your time

He is always on these threads touting chicks for combat

Weird

[wardaddy]

Lol

Frank

I look forward to Mr women in combat’s response

[FreedomPoster]

>>I saw it coming when women were admitted to West Point back in 1974 or so.

Women were first admitted to the service academies for the class of ‘80, so they started as freshmen in the Fall of ‘76. I dated a gal in high school who was in that first West Point class.

[central_va]

Seems like those “light in the loafer types” defend women being in combat the most. Just sayin’

[Bryan24]

Thanks.

That we would send young women into combat ahead of able bodied men tells just how sick our society has become.

[Grampa Dave]

Great looking Marine!.

Is that you pinning his bars on?

[don-o]

That’s me doing one and his friend doing another.

[Grampa Dave]

“There used to be an annual team adventure race called “the eco-challenge.” It was a multi-day team race involving all kinds of sports and challenges from rock climbing to jungle trail runs to kayaking, rough water swimming, etc.

Each team (I think of 5 or so as I recall) had to include a female. In the earliest eco-challenges, some winning teams literally CARRIED their “token female” up the hard stuff that they could not negotiate. Literally carried them.”

I have nick named many of my female relatives and my wife’s female relatives as sturdy women, and that includes my wife.

However, there are limits to what even these sturdy women can do, and the old standards of the Marines, combat army and Seals/UDTs would have eliminated these sturdy women in my family from serving in those groups.

[Grampa Dave]

Great picture, Dad!

[RoosterRedux]

The USMC ought to send its girls to Crossfit for about 6 months.

Then they'll be able to rack out the pull-ups (and a lot more).