Posted on 02/05/2016 1:42:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON -- Two House Republicans introduced a bill Thursday requiring eligible women in the United States to sign up for the military draft, just days after it was recommended by the Marine Corps and Army.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a Marine veteran, and Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Minn., a retired Navy SEAL, filed the Draft American's Daughters Act to stoke debate over the military's historic move to fully integrate female troops into all combat roles. If passed, women from 18-26 years old would for the first time have to join men in registering with the Selective Service program and potentially be forced to fight in future wars.
"If this administration wants to send 18, 20-year-old women into combat, to serve and fight on the front lines, then the American people deserve to have this discussion through their elected representatives," Hunter said in a released statement.
On Tuesday, Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testified to the Senate that they believe there no longer should be an exemption in the draft for half of the country's population now that the military is all inclusive.
The Marines and Army, along with the other service branches, were ordered by Defense Secretary Ash Carter to open about 225,000 combat jobs to women candidates - the last remaining occupational specialties that had barred female troops.
The decision was made despite research and reservations from the Marine Corps and special operations community, and without adequate debate among lawmakers, according to the two congressmen sponsoring the bill.
"My daughter is a damn good Navy diver. I know women play an invaluable role in war. Many times women can gain access to strategic sites that men never could," Zinke said in a released statement. "However, this administration's plan to force all front-line combat and Special Forces to integrate women into their units is reckless and dangerous."
The Marines completed a study last summer that found women get injured more often and perform below males in combat. During an oversight hearing in the Senate on Tuesday, lawmakers repeatedly referenced the study and said they are worried the military could lower standards to accommodate more women in combat occupational specialties.
Zinke said the decision now means the country must contemplate changes to the draft. His bill requires women to register beginning 90 days after it is signed into law.
"This is a very important issue that touches the heart of every family in America, and I believe we need to have an open and honest discussion about it," Zinke said.
Men, who historically filled combat roles, are required to register with Selective Service when they turn 18 years old in case a draft is again needed. The Supreme Court had in the past backed the exemption for women, but only because they were not expected to fill crucial combat ranks.
Millions of women might now suddenly and unexpectedly be required to register due to the Pentagon decision on combat roles.
Neller, who initially requested exemptions for women in some combat positions, said he thinks it is fair that women now face being called up to wartime service.
"Every American that is physically qualified should register for the draft," said Neller, who had requested but was denied the exclusion of women in some Marine combat jobs.
Well, this should force the libs to tell the public what they are really up to.
Well, they wanted equality.
By gawd, they got the last full measure of it.
Funny, the news media are usually all over these stories about gender equality milestones.
The DAD’s act; lol. Forcing the libs to face the mirror.
Well, this makes sense.
Well, if this goes anywhwere, I would imagine there might be more than just a parent or two tuning into CSPAN with *keen* interest!
If nothing else, the Draft American’s Daughters Act would snare those males who think they’re female.
So wait a minute. Is Hunter and Zinke being serious here, or is this a bluff to force Obama and the DOD to fold on the issue?
Where is Bwarney Fwrank in this discussion? He’s been a big proponent of bring the Draft back... Oh wait, that was during “W’s” time in office.
I think more of a conversation starter.
Should this come to pass and libs complain about selective service and a possible draft, just hit them with their gun registration rebuttals: No one’s coming to take/draft your daughters. And watch the heads explode.
“War on women!”
The commandant is a coward. So is Duncan for doing this. My daughter never asked to be a man. I’ll help her and every female I can evade it.
Teenage girls who didn’t cause this are not your human pawns.
Remember when Phyllis Schlafly came out against the constitutional amendment that would put sex in the constitution? It almost got passed until Phyllis awakened people to the unknown aspects of this amendment. She warned Americans that this amendment would require women to be drafted into the military and would require same sex bathrooms. Of course, the left laughed at her but thankfully she raised awareness and this amendment did not pass. But see how the left never gives up. Even 40 years after the amendment failed it is back under another disguise. And notice how same sex and transgender bathrooms are being pushed on us many years later.
“I am woman hear me roar”...the most awful song ever written.
IMHO, putting women in front line combat positions is a human rights violation. And not just the Army and Marines. Think about women in the carnage on ships in the naval battles around Guadalcanal or after a kamikaze attack. We have dodged the bullet so far, but what about a woman pilot shot down by the savages we are fighting?
The American people just don't know that the liberals have wrought.
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