Putting women in combat units is an incredibly dumb idea. While some women have done fine in recent days under fire, the whole question isn’t whether you can train some women to fight, it’s whether a combat unit benefits in proficiency by mixing women with the young men. The internal personal dynamics completely change and no amount of training, threats, or blandishments change hormones.
The whole purpose of combat units is killing people, period. Ignore the war movies, the comic books, the “analysts” who think warfare has changed. It hasn’t - if anything it’s more brutal than ever. We either maximize the efficiency of our combat units or we start learning to enjoy occupation.
That goes double for incorporating gays into the units. We are not a social experimentation venue, we are supposedly the lifeline for our independence and freedom.
This simply isn't true.
Well said!
Dunno, I’d rather have a woman as a buddy than a homosexual oogling the Bacha Bazi boyus on Friday night.
There are some places in the military where the lower upper body strength of women makes them a combat deficiency. Even in maintenance and transport jobs, the weight of the stuff they have to hold or move makes them turn to a man or to a machine to get the job done.
One troop mentioned holding an alternator up and bolting it in place. The female has to get the lift to do that, and it needlessly occupies that piece of equipment so it can’t be used on more urgent repairs that actually require it.
We haven’t even broached what happens in a unit when a leader and a subordinate “fall in love”. What gets set aside, brushed over, favored, protected, etc., in such a situation when you have to send someone to their possible death?
I spent 24+ years in the military, and I know I’m right.