[Robert Lomax]

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[neverdem]

Good find, unfortunately the Armed Forces now depend upon female volunteers.

[ASOC]

Hummmmm
My son did not join the military to "become a profesional killer" We did have discussions about the use of deadly force, ROE, what gets you put in jail and what might save your a$$ on the battle field. The Marines DO train with less than lethal arms - and still worship at the fet of Markmanship.

He will get out at some point and has indicated he wants to work in a police dept.

I perfer to call todays Marines - the 21st centery Samurai.
With all the baggage and histroy that word brings with it.

Sleep well tonight my friends, my son has your back covered.

[clintonh8r]

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[Last Dakotan]

I blame the top military leaders thru the '90's who allowed the feminization of the military rather than risk their retirement ranks. God only knows how many good men will be killed over time by their selfishness and lack of courage.

[JoeSchem]

No liberal rag here, but --

Why, no wonder the Nazis, Japanese, and Commies beat us, their soldiers are so much tougher and insensitive than ours. Oh, and did you see how those tough-guy Talibans had us running with our tails between our legs in Afghanistan?

[mfulstone]

Captain Luddy is right. We may soon learn the hard way...

[Modernman]

"Does your son want to be a professional killer?" "Well no, of course not. He wants to be a peacemaker."

Where is it written that a soldier can't be both? After all, a powerful military IS the best way to ensure peace.

[BenR2]

Get women out of the military academies -- bump!

[Paul C. Jesup]

Funny how this article forgets to mention the amazons and the female warriors that were part of the mongolian hordes.

[Billthedrill]

Well, with respect, you can take this "cult" business way too far. And I don't think anyone in his or her right mind can speak literally of the "demise" of the American military - what it just did in Iraq will be studied for the next century. On the one hand, it is a sexually integrated military, not without the difficulties that any mix of the sexes will generate. On the other hand, the vast bulk of the combat troops are male.

The real warrior cults of the last century - the SS, the fanatical Japanese of the entire Pacific campaign - had in common one thing. They were beaten by ordinary citizens who surpassed them in savagery, in motivation, and in sheer killing capacity. And these "professional killers" came back home and went to school on the GI bill and bought houses and raised families.

I do think actual physical combat is, for a number of physiological and psychological reasons, predominantly the function of the male of the species, however vicious and effective the female can be under the right circumstances. So what? There are millions of people more physically and psychologically attuned to killing than I was, but I considered it (then, and I still do) within the duties and obligations of citizenship to lay my life on the line when the country required it. I do not think it wise to deny that right, privilege, or obligation to half of our population.

[usmcobra]

At least I'm old enough to remember when The Marines were refered to as America's peacekeepers.

[Jeff Gordon]

I was just beginning to fancy myself a man and was looking for a place to prove it...

Well, Mr. Luddy, you have failed miserably in reaching that goal and you don't even know why.

[Little Ray]

We are Athens, not Sparta; Republican Rome, not Imperial Rome. There is no place for a warrior "cult" in the US Military, except maybe in Special Forces. Our troops are citizen soldiers, not knights, mamelukes or samurai.

That said, I do not like women in the military. Women who do serve in the military should have to pass the same tests as the men.

[Centurion2000]

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[Nataku X]

Our culture will never effectively put females in military. Israel arguably has the most efficient military and they have females--but they hold females to the same standards as men. Feminists who pushed to be in the military in the first place want to be coddled and they've apparently got too much sex on their brains to boot (high rates of pregnancy, etc.).

This isn't to say that there aren't many excellent females who truly want to defend our country--most are probably wonderful conservative warrior women--but our culture is taking the completely wrong approach to females in military situations.

At the very least if females are in the military they should be held to the same physical standards as men and that all females should be required to register for draft.

[Mr. Mojo]

Good article.

The leftist social engineering experiment continues. .....to the deteriment of us all.