I've always wondered why the N.A.Gs (National Association of Gals) never demanded equal rights in enrollment into Selective Service? I mean, if they truly want equality, they should have been demanding to be included in the draft registration for years.
Women in combat isn't about women in combat. It's about women officers commanding combat units so they can get the extra points towards promotion, ultimately to the General officer level.
I find the notion that the US Military is a “playing field” to be extremely disturbing...
I believe that every woman who want’s to be equal to a man must spend 4 years as a “roughneck” on a drilling rig prior to joining the military. That will give them the needed physical “bulking up” to even attempt to exhibit their manly traits and physical equality to men.
I don’t have a problem with women taking up their 2A arms in the defense of restoring a legal and Constitutional America from Enemies foreign and domestic.
The whole thing is just a diversionary ploy by Obama, his skeet pics being the latest smokescreen.
His dictatorship lives to create division, to create smokescreens, to use one hand to get attention while the other is stealing your wallet.
Personally this situation will just have to be endured until America finds some way to get the stagehook upon this clown.
If we assume that all of the info in the article is factual, it would seem that placing women in combat units is an insane thing to do ,and something that will get a lot of people killed.
Political correctness carried to insanity.
1. Sexuality. Despite the Left's drive to ignore the aspects of this fact of life, we are pushing young men and women together into intimate proximity already in the services but it becomes a whole new issue in combat. As it used to be, you had units of men in isolated, miserable and highly stressed situations all suffering together. We developed a cohesion based on mutual deprivation and trust and we did our best for each other. Introducing some women means that some lucky individuals will have functioning relationships and they will focus on each other and inevitably to the exclusion of the others. The rest of the unit without relationships will resent those that do. Friction within the unit will damage cohesion and these rivalries will damage their combat effectiveness. Damaging combat effectiveness could mean that more people die than would normally be necessary.
2. Women usually can't keep up, as the article implies - the clusters of stragglers in most unit runs are mostly made up of women - because each infantry or other combat unit relies on each member of the team doing their jobs as integral parts of the unit, fire team members or squad members who can't keep up/do their job degrades the unit's performance. Therefore, more dead/wounded and greater chance of losing the fight.
3. Combat has not changed. We have had a couple of light counterinsurgency fights over the last decade that give the impression that wars are fought in vehicles and outposts but these are anomalies: most combat is of the high intensity maneuver variety and requires sustained exertion and continuous brutality. If you examine Tarawa, Hue City, or vignettes like the Battle of Fallujah and you get the picture. War has not really changed, we just conveniently think that it's changed - like a video game or something. Imagine how intense and vicious the fighting will be if we have to engage Iran or China sometime in the future.
These plans always come from people with no direct experience in combat - and always from people who won't be risking their own children. No, today's "decision makers" always risk somebody else's children with their social experiments.
Pregnancies won’t be as big an issue as in the past.....they’re going to be majorally a faggot/dyke force..... AIDS will be a bigger threat than pregnancy.
This has NOTHING to do with “equality” or “equal opportunity”.
This is about destroying America and it’s infrastructure.
Tearing it down, brick by brick.
The Democrats consider the military to be "meals on wheels" and world policemen. That is consistent with the new world order desired by communists, socialists, and Democrats. What suffers is combat readiness because too much is spent on social experiments, retrofitting ships to accommodate women, and deliberately insulting God.
You will see nothing related to the cost of taking care of pregnant women in the military, or the cost of accommodating women in formerly men only operations. I would guess that our military is only 60% of what it was before women and gays were brought into where they do not belong.
Being able to win is less important to Democrats in my opinion. Democrats value their warped and twisted view of a "Utopian" world where people are happy giving according to their ability and receiving according to their needs as determined by a centralized government.
I was born with a blue cord on my shoulder, and retired with one, but...
I spent a short time in a Medium Girder Bridge unit with the engineers. In the 1990s, the unit picked up women in the mess, maintenance, and administrative sections of the company. One day, they came out to a bridge build in order to “try it out.” They grabbed the carrying handles and went over to a top panel - one of the lightest pieces on the site.
“Le ho, heave!”
Up went the top panel to knee level... for about half a second. Down went the top panel with a thud. They got it off the ground but immediately set it back down. Too heavy.
Everyone laughed.
On a REAL bridge build, the men often have to lift those top panels over their heads and hold them there until the chute bolts are put into place. Women can not do that. After I left that unit, it’s my understanding that the bridging sections finally got women. Their job on EVERY bridge site: PIN MAN. The *easy* job that everyone wants because it doesn’t involve lifting any bridge sections.
So much for a level playing field.