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Panetta: ´Everyone Entitled to a Chance´ to be Combat Soldier in ´Gender Neutral´ Military
Cybercast News Service ^ | 1/24/13 | Matt Cover

Posted on 01/24/2013 6:34:43 PM PST by Nachum

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that whether they are male or female "everyone is entitled to a chance" to become a combat soldier in a military that will now adopt "gender netural" standards. “If members of our military can meet the qualifications for a job--and let me be clear, we’re not talking about reducing the qualifications for a job--if they can meet the qualifications for the job then they should have the right to serve,” Panetta said at a Pentagon press conference. The Defense Department announced today that it would rescind its 1994 policy restricting women

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KEYWORDS: bhodod; bhosecdef; combat; gender; panetta; radicalfeminists; soldier; womenincombat
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To: Bronzy

Don’tcha know?

Liberals are terrible at linear thinking; it is always situational morality, here and now. They will change the rules when the unforecasted effect presents.

When you have no foundation, you have no fortress. You have nothing to defend. You are an amoral, situational weasel; scurrying about for the closest shelter until danger passes.


61 posted on 01/24/2013 7:54:09 PM PST by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: Nachum

Delay the invasion, the mother’s need to nurse!


62 posted on 01/24/2013 7:58:26 PM PST by donna (Pray for revival.)
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To: Nachum

Entitlements now extend to being a soldier. This is getting really bizzare.


63 posted on 01/24/2013 7:59:49 PM PST by GingisK
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To: allendale
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64 posted on 01/24/2013 8:01:04 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: Nachum

Well, it isn’t like we’re going to be doing the “war” thing much after the budget cuts.


65 posted on 01/24/2013 8:12:19 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: One Name

Real women know what it means to be a real woman.

Feminists and lesbians will never get that, and sadly enough, I don’t think they want to.


66 posted on 01/24/2013 8:18:06 PM PST by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: rlmorel
Actually, the menstrual cycle would be a minor issue. There are birth control shots these days that cease that cycle indefinitely.

There maybe some women that can do the job..but I don't think there are many. If they can...rock on, I guess.

My main issue would be the emotional make up of the ladies. The age of these ladies, in my mind, don't make them fierce fighters. Too emotional.

Now, you get an older lady like myself..I could cut your liver out and feed it to my dogs if my loved ones were threatened. But physical strength becomes an issue. Now, if you could mix the strength of a young lady and the lack of emotion of an older one..you would have a fighting companion.

What worries me is with the repeal of DADT and women on the front lines...how many true warriors will enlist.

67 posted on 01/24/2013 8:25:11 PM PST by berdie
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To: Nachum

Future Interview with a US Marine serving in the Magreb:

“Yeah, the Al Qaeda mujahadeen took Corporal Deborah Vincent prisoner and dragged her to their lines about 200 yards away. As we hunkered down in our fox holes over night we could hear her scream incessantly as about 30 of the tangos took turns raping her.”

Great stuff we have to look forward to.


68 posted on 01/24/2013 8:29:19 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Nachum

A dumbass decision by dumbass civilians who have NEVER served!

God help us!


69 posted on 01/24/2013 8:33:43 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Nachum
‘Gender Neutral’ should be Gender Neutered.
70 posted on 01/24/2013 8:50:40 PM PST by 444Flyer (They killed the Twinkie but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Well, it isn’t like we’re going to be doing the “war” thing much after the budget cuts.

Historically, it is disarming that has brought the country to war repeatedly. :(

71 posted on 01/24/2013 8:51:04 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: RginTN

Pregnancy already is a problem, combat or no combat, especially on ships and suns. I imagine their contract stipulates that they get booted and/or lose money should they breed.


72 posted on 01/24/2013 9:03:46 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: central_va

It doesn’t really matter how big or tough she is. Burly men get raped, too, in the right circumstances. Being female ups the odds considerably, for obvious reasons (vaginas).


73 posted on 01/24/2013 9:12:19 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: central_va

“Are those women really going to be sexually assaulted?”

Yes, for the same reason men are. Only moreso, because they have more inviting genetalia.


74 posted on 01/24/2013 9:15:30 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: Viennacon

Great points. This is insane. They are attempting to completely erase any differences between the sexes. Men and women have different strengths. There is a good reason that woman are the caretakers and tender mothers of the young, God made women emotionally hardwired for it. And men are hardwired to be providers and protectors. (Though NEVER get between a mama bear and her young, in which case she might be the most fierce person on earth. ;) )

Obama is messing with the order of the Lord’s creation. He is making himself out to be a false god.


75 posted on 01/24/2013 9:16:37 PM PST by 444Flyer (They killed the Twinkie, but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: Nachum

Wait till these little princesses start coming back with limbs missing and scared faces. We’ll see how fast they want to join up then.


76 posted on 01/24/2013 9:29:57 PM PST by Clock King
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To: Nachum

Robert Heinlein - 1973
Notebooks of Lazarus Long
from
“TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE”

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplus age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can—and must—be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly—and no doubt will keep on trying.”


77 posted on 01/24/2013 9:55:54 PM PST by servo1969
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To: servo1969
Nobody ever taught Obama how to be a man. Maybe this would help.


78 posted on 01/24/2013 10:23:41 PM PST by 444Flyer (Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: Saoirise; All

This is what a combat soldier should look like and one of the reasons why.

(How many lives will be lost because of this policy? How many?)
79 posted on 01/24/2013 10:29:46 PM PST by 444Flyer (Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
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To: Nachum; bestintxas; Jet Jaguar; sickoflibs; NorwegianViking; CzarNicky; Mike Fieschko; Liz; ...
IF the reason to include women in combat is to cripple the military's ability to fight - then this idea's a winner.

Why wait for liberals in the military to lie to us? A simple test ...

Have the NBA ( National Basketball Association) require 8 teams to include women... Each of those 8 teams must have a minimum of 2 women on the floor at all times. At the end of the season, we see how they've done...

OR

The NFL could do the same: cities - chosen randomly - would field teams required to have a minimum of 5 women on the field during all play.

Dems could place bets on the teams with women... to prove they're right.... put their money where they're mouths are... The rest of us could bet against them. We might not change their liberal minds but we sure as hell could take their money.

80 posted on 01/25/2013 8:46:07 AM PST by GOPJ ( Do murder laws control murders?..freeper Red Badger Let's try Criminal control - Fr:MadMax)
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