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Coed Combat Units - A bad idea on all counts
Weekly Standard ^ | February 4, 2013 | Mackubin Thomas Owens

Posted on 01/27/2013 7:11:45 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 01/27/2013 7:11:49 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
This is just what Obama wants; another long and drawn out argument that can have no end and no conclusion. This is just like global warming, health care, free birth control pills and the debt ceiling. There is something going on behind the scene that no one is catching on to yet.

YOU CAN COUNT ON IT!

2 posted on 01/27/2013 7:16:00 PM PST by Baynative (I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. I can't put it down.)
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To: neverdem

Reasoning and discussion is useless. the intent is the complete destruction of the military powers of The united states of america and create parity in the world.

The left has won. The only thing left is to watch the death of the country. It will not take the full of the term of the beast.


3 posted on 01/27/2013 7:16:00 PM PST by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: neverdem

Reality is thrown out the window when socialist idealogues are in power.


4 posted on 01/27/2013 7:24:06 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: neverdem

This is an excellent article. Military cohesion is also a reason why openly homosexual men don’t belong in front line jobs. The sad truth is there is a double standard for women in the military, they do get sick and are unavailable for duty more often, men do pick up the slack, and our leaders don’t really care. This is about politics, not military effectiveness.


5 posted on 01/27/2013 7:27:27 PM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: neverdem

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6 posted on 01/27/2013 7:29:56 PM PST by corlorde (forWARD of the state)
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To: Travis McGee

The feminazis will be getting badly embarassed. There’s a reason that I haven’t seen any female furniture movers.


7 posted on 01/27/2013 7:31:12 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

I remember a discussion on one of the morning news programs. It was about this exact subject. There was military woman who thought women could be in combat and that idiot Baba Wawa.

After one of the guys said that the training was different for men and women, Barbara just flat out stated that he was wrong and the training was identical.

About 30 seconds later the guy asked the woman officer if the training was the same and she admitted it was not. I remember thinking that at least she didn’t lie like Walters.


8 posted on 01/27/2013 7:43:29 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: neverdem

We should endorse professional women as defensive linebackers...


9 posted on 01/27/2013 8:03:46 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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I can not think of one thing that a woman adds to the capability of a front line platoon to complete their mission. She is smaller, weaker, slower and the simple fact is that men behave differently when a woman is present.

Women have a civilizing effect on men that is contrary to breaking and killing things. Plus, the natural sexual tension between the sexes can bring chaos to a platoon.

Guys that go camping with guys only, know what I am talking about.

Men should protect their women. (Except, Rosie O’Donnel of course)


10 posted on 01/27/2013 8:44:57 PM PST by super7man
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11 posted on 01/27/2013 8:56:13 PM PST by narses
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12 posted on 01/27/2013 8:56:42 PM PST by narses
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13 posted on 01/27/2013 8:57:48 PM PST by narses
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Actually the article is wrong about one thing, they can urinate standing up.

Just a tangent, but you can’t ping them for this.


14 posted on 01/27/2013 9:00:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: neverdem

I even see many of the points expressed in this article in the schools where I have worked, which is not exactly an environment marked by physical stress, combat, or life-threatening circumstances.

Female teachers get sick more often. They take off more time than male counterparts. They take the normal stresses of the classroom differently than most men, too, with many of my female colleagues responding more emotionally, in both good and bad ways. Men are more measured. Many female teachers are simply not as driven as the male teachers, which is why there are more men working on administrative certificates. Despite decades of trying, men treat women differently, usually with a respectful deference, and women tend to create private girl’s clubs that separate themselves from the men on the staff. Hot, young, attractive female teachers attract the attention of every (heterosexual) male, a truth that everyone acknowledges.

Of course, we’re not supposed to express any of these realities, but I’ll bet that any good social scientist could measure it using reliable research methods.

On the other hand, a lot of us in this mixed-sex environment are old - I just celebrated my 57th birthday. We can navigate the currents of sex professionally. That wouldn’t be the situation in the armed forces.

I was thinking about being a 19-year-old soldier with a hot, attractive, young female soldier next to me out in the wilderness somewhere. Hell, she wouldn’t even have to be very attractive. What I know is that at the age of 19 my libido had only one speed, and that was overdrive. Now add to that the stress of combat. Young men take young women on roller coasters to “scare” their date, which promotes all sorts of bonding behaviors. Combat creates that scariness for real, and I’d have no doubt that sexual yearning is a predictable outcome. I don’t know why sex is prompted by this kind of scare, but it is.

And afterwards? Jealousy, recrimination, resentment, shame, guilt. Not a good way to run an army. A good way to ruin one, though.

God help us.


15 posted on 01/27/2013 9:00:38 PM PST by redpoll
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A woman cannot urinate standing up

This is about the only thing in this article I could disagree with!

Of course they can...it's messy and they have very little directional ability,but nonetheless they CAN pee standing up! C'mon!

16 posted on 01/27/2013 9:03:55 PM PST by oldsalt (There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
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To: neverdem

From Saturday afternoon pirate movies:

A woman on a ship is bad luck.

Philosophy that still works.


17 posted on 01/27/2013 9:10:56 PM PST by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: redpoll

Why do you suppose the military doesn’t release pregnancy rates? Try to find those stats anywhere.
On my last ship, an Arleigh Burke DDG, we had a cadre of 60 enlisted women and averaged one pregnancy every month. Every time we left port we had to find another home for the pregnant sailors, usually at the Transient Personnel Unit. There’s a law we had to follow that required us to be able to get a pregnant sailor to a neonatal care facility within four hours.


18 posted on 01/27/2013 9:39:23 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: neverdem; CitizenUSA; corlorde; yarddog; super7man; redpoll
Combat operations entail applying and enduring unimaginable brutality until victory. Therefore, only the most severe restrictions on human emotions and behavior can foster the required high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion. Human sexuality simply cannot intrude into this extraordinary dimension where those displaying the greatest savagely win.

Combat forms personnel into small, rigid, task oriented units. These people continuously face extraordinary stress punctuated by killing other humans. At the point of collision, men face environments characterized by unbelievably sacrificial, primitive and intimate relations.

Such environments are inherently chaotic and brittle. They can be overcome only by a totalitarian leadership and narrow focus unimaginable for those who see any opportunity for social engineering.

The regimental combat teams for infantry, mechanized and armored units are now the playthings of bureaucrats committed to equal opportunity, and dismissive of warriors enduring the brutal carnage imperative for victory. The institutional memories of fighting ferocious, capable enemies such as the Germans, Japanese, Chinese, and North Vietnamese have disappeared.

George Orwell said it best, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

P.S.
Notice General Dempsey, who never fought the enemies mentioned, questions the necessity of current high standards which already allow inferior female performance.

I tell those who ask they should never join any branch of the military. And began doing so when they repealed DADT. I reasonably expect affirmative action to be applied overtly or covertly to homosexuals in consideration for promotion. Therefore one should expect the lesbians and sodomites to make the decisions about sending little girls and a few good men into harms way. I imagine these will be interesting conversations at times, because I ended up as a VFW Post Commander.

Well what are they going to do? Fire me from a job I never really wanted. Now they can't put me on an LST and ship me off to the Mekong Delta.

General Martin E. Dempsey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Dempsey

Gen. Dempsey: If Women Can’t Meet Military Standard, Pentagon Will Ask ‘Does It Really Have to Be That High?’
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gen-dempsey-if-women-can-t-meet-military-standard-pentagon-will-ask-does-it-really-have

19 posted on 01/27/2013 10:00:24 PM PST by Retain Mike
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20 posted on 01/27/2013 10:01:36 PM PST by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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