their reasoning:”women end up sometimes in combat roles anyway...”(media quote)
and people end up in fires some times, so let’s tell everone they’re fire fighters!
“not everyone can be a combat soldier, but everyone should have the chance”. (Panetta)
I guess Congress will need to involve us in even more foreign entanglements so EVERYONE gets their chance!
“they’re fighting and dying together already”.
yeah. at about a ratio of 1:500. make it 1:5 and then you’ll have the all-important “fairness” and “equality” they seek,right ? since they’ll never get the volunteers, that means a draft, right?
Here’s the thing...out of 1,000 young ladies to finish high school...barely a hundred will consider a career in the military, and at best...maybe eight of the hundred will consider options of combat professions within the Army or Marines. You’d have to make it through boot-camp, and then go through combat training...with a pretty tough physical situation, and at best...two might still graduate at the end out of the original 1,000.
The issue I see is that if you talk to Marines from WW II, who spent an entire month in one uniform and never showered...sometimes just stepping out of a 10-mile hike with 100 pounds of gear on them to relieve themselves...I don’t see many women stepping up to fit into this situation.
If you look....we’ve actually added more weight to what a typical Marine has to carry today....even more than in the Vietnam War. How will a 140 pound gal tote a hundred pound backpack? I think this will a tough gal who makes it to the end and can do all this. So if we do go and get fifty women a year into Marine combat positions...ok, I’ll accept that.
The “she” is not important. It is the fighting machine that is important and anything that has an adverse effect on the unit efficiency should be removed.
I saw it years ago when we first had to bring women into heavy industry. The women individually were OK. It was the mixing of sexes on crews. Some men are conditioned to be helpful to women and take on part of their work load. Some men are just sexually aggressive, some aren't, jealousy enters the picture, she is more attracted to one, many, many factors surface, and the mission suffers.
Check out the few countries that allow mixed front line units, like the Dutch, and you will find they are worthless as fighting units.