Can you imagine the effect a film of 10,000 women going ashore at OMAHA BEACH or IOW JIMA would go over back home in WWII?
Watching young women blown to pieces would cause a major uproar.
The Military should not be used for social engineering.
One of the scariest things about the women that want to do man things, is that they aren’t embarrassed about, or even aware of their shortcomings.
I have read many articles and some books by these women, and they can be a total flop compared to the men, but as long as they do well against the female standard, they swell up with pride and vindication at their equality.
They say things like “ I got the best total score in my class”, without ever mentioning that their “scoring” was different from the real scoring, it is like a bad movie about the totally self-absorbed, unaware boss’s son, or rich kid, who thinks that he came straight from the parking lot into the board room, because of his own 21 year old’s talents and specialness.
Richardson, who entered the military with the intent to become a nurse, said she would not choose to go to the frontlines
——————————————————————————————Gee when I went in the military we didn’t get a chance to choose.
Does this mean women want a chance to choose?
Is that what you call equality?
When you join the military honey, you go where they send you.
Now women want the right to be cannon fodder if they choose. If they don’t choose some man gets to die in their place. That’s equality?
If women are to be allowed into combat, lets stop the volunteer BS .
These idiot women will lose their taste for combat once they see what a 7.62 bullet does to human flesh.
Prove it.
This "diversity makes us strong" crap is a shibboleth.
This broad says it would “have been nice to have the opportunity” to go into combat. And opportunity? I guess that means a “choice”. If women are to be “allowed” to serve in combat there should be no choice. They should be assigned just like the men are assigned.
Anyone who actually WANTS to go into military combat shouldn’t. They do not understand it and would be doing it for the wrong reasons. Just as anybody who actually WANTS to be President of the United States shouldn’t.
Gender neutral tests? OK - so both men and women must be able to pick up a 10 pound bag of sugar... and toss it 3 feet? Everyone passes - we all lose.
“...since many females in her branch had already been serving in combat-like situations.”
“combat-like?”
Is that where they can get like, dead?
At what point should a pregnant infantrywoman’s fetus receive combat pay?
“I think (an increase) is a very good possibility,” she said. “And that’s not a bad thing.”
I think it will have exactly the OPPOSITE effect. I believe FEWER women will go into the military, if they know they could be sent to the 'front line'.
She is a lieutenant colonel in the Nationl Guard. Don't they have an "up or out" rule in the Guard. I suppose she could have come up through the ranks.
My son was with the 101st in Iraq. Being an airborne unit, that meant he walked all the way from Kuwait to Baghdad. So goes the army... Anyway, he carried an M249 with a 100 round magazine (take that DiFi!). He also carried 500 extra rounds, an extra barrel, a Beretta pistol(should have been a Colt), a ruck sack some mules would balk at, and about 85 pounds of body armor. All of this in the the desert heat.... Honey, how would you like to do that on your period? They don't carry couches in the open air latrine for your cramps either.
You are a General of an Infantry division and your Commander lets you choose one of two enemy divisions to fight in an upcoming engagement. Intel confirms the first enemy division that you could choose to oppose in the upcoming battle is all male. Or you could instead choose to fight the second enemy division that was mixed faggot, women and men. So which enemy division would you choose to fight?
Answer Yes or No and explain your answer.
You really need to do some serious reading on the subject. I suggest Eugene Sledge's “With the Old Breed: Peleliu and Okinawa” or Robert Leckie’s “Helmet for My Pillow” or “Strong Men Armed.”
Colonel Balliet rhapsodizes that “it's about time” and “I'd like to have had the chance”. Are you absolutely insane, woman? Let's talk about the numbers.
Has it occurred to you that infantry units in ground combat lose people and those deaths are not “Hollywood” kinds of deaths? These deaths are as gruesome as you can imagine: people are vaporized; people with heads, arms, legs blown off; people eviscerated with their internal organs spread around. In Eugene Sledge's K Company, they went into action with 240 men and came out with 5 still walking upright. So, Colonel, what exactly happened to the other 235? Do you envy them that they got a chance to experience “front line combat”?
One of the dirty little secrets in the military that no one talks about is the female “option”. If Suzie Soldier, Airman, Sailor, or Marine gets an assignment she doesn't like or doesn't want to do, Suzie gets pregnant. Pregnancy gets her a free ticket out and back to a nice, safe rear area so she can have her child [and about a year's duty in this safe duty station as she raises her new born]. Meanwhile, the unit she abruptly left gets no replacement for her and those remaining have to do her job besides their own.
Now imagine Sledge's K Company with 50 Suzie Marines who don't want to invade Peleliu or Okinawa so they get pregnant to avoid combat? That leaves 190 males to shoulder the load of the original 240 BEFORE the shooting actually starts. That's hardly fair, is it Colonel Balliet? You don't think females in infantry units would exercise the “option”, Colonel? The women already ARE exercising the “option” and the women aren't in combat arms, Colonel.
There's also another thing I notice about people like Colonel Balliet — it is officers who think front line combat is just wonderful because it gives them a resume enhancement for advanced promotion! I don't see a lot of senior and junior enlisted people clamoring for ground combat slots. Let me be blunt, Colonel Balliet. I have been on the sharp end of the spear and it is not a pretty place to be when the real crap hits the fan. This is not a “stepping stone” to an advanced promotion; this is a good way to get maimed, permanently disabled, or killed. You cannot get promoted if you're dead Colonel Balliet [or maimed or permanently disabled].
Let's be very frank, Colonel Balliet: infantry ground combat is an equal opportunity killer and respects neither gender nor rank. Anyone who looks on it as a fast track to advanced promotion is a bloody fool [or worse].
Just another way to weaken OUR military to appease the chi-coms!!!!
Hell, I'm 60 years old and a retired AF weenie. I still bet, sight unseen, that I can clean her clock in hand-to-hand and carry more than she can over a 5 mile hike.
A man and a woman in the same foxhole? By all means; why should gays have all the fun?