Marines shift focus to get women to front line

wmbfnews.com ^ | April 24, 2013 | David Klugh

[sergeantdave]

“It’s about time, says retired Army Lt. Colonel Wanda Robinson. She’s a South Carolina teacher now..”

Teacher. That’s where you belong, you dumb turd. You could never don an 80-pound combat pack - with a rifle - and do a 15-mile force-march into a combat zone. And after you arrive, have the physical stamina to engage the enemy in a firefight that might last for days.

Ask the Marines who took sugar loaf hill in Okinawa in 1945. It wasn’t a place for women. Those Marines who survived suffered for months and years after that battle.

I don’t want women in combat. Go teach.

[utahagen]

You go that right!

[utahagen]

Thumbs up!

[utahagen]

Very well put. I agree 100%.

[ansel12]

They just relieved the CO of OCS at Quantico because three of his enlisted died in a love triangle murder-suicide.

Here are the Marines involved in that, one Marine looks different from the others, he just looks a little more like he fits into the Corps.

Marine Corps Lance Corporal

Marine Corps Lance Corporal

[mrsmel]

Good gravy. These Barbie dolls are going to be our nation's warriors? I try to picture them facing the enemy on Iwojima-just can't make my mind do it.

This country is so done, stick a fork in it.

[ansel12]

You saw what I saw, it is amazing.

This is Orwellian.

[ogen hal]

Insane...says this former Marine.

[gleeaikin]

I am not suggesting that women be allowed to qualify with lower standards. However, I recently read John DelVecchio’s very “real” book on the Vietnam War, “The 13th Valley”. In it you have the heavy machine gun being carried by the biggest strongest guy in the unit, and the smaller guys serving as the tunnel rats. My late husband, a Korean War infantry combat vet, wanted to take a course on motor repair. We had an old rum runner with a V-8 engine, and he didn’t want it to quit on him out at sea and not know how to fix it. The men’s mechanics class was full, so he signed up in the women’s class that had some vacancies. He had a somewhat superior male attitude, but at the end of the course he said it worked really well. He partnered with a woman and said when something heavy needed to be done he did it, but when something intricate or in a tight spot needed doing she did it. I realize this is not an exact analogy, but I also think that a few women can do as well as the average or slightly below average Marine. And I realize that anyone who makes Marine is already above average.

[gleeaikin]

I don’t think the military or women think this is a good policy for all women, just as it doesn’t work for all men. Incidentally, the average man farts 14 times a day, and guess how man times the average woman farts (14). Incidentally, eating yogurt drastically reduces the stink factor. As I discovered with great gratitude when I first gave hubby some yogurt.

While I never had any great desire to enter the military myself, being only 5’5”, 123 lb. when young, after a summer spent helping my family move at 16, furniture, many boxes of books and 4 tons of lumber pop had salvaged for projects, I took the physical fitness test at my new school and was the most fit girl of 150. My son was in a high school ROTC Rangers unit, and I noticed that most of the guys had strong aggressive mothers, including me. I never encouraged my son to go into the military, but he liked it. He came out for a few years but could not find a job he liked. I asked him once what the problem was. “Well,” he said, “I like getting up at 6 am and running 5 miles.” I could see his point and after a while his Reserve commander talked him back in. He is almost finished with his 20 now.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Note that I said that technology will "help to some extent". That should tell you that I wasn't trying to argue that, all things considered, having women in combat roles is a good idea.

For thousands of years, technological advances have narrowed the gap between male and female combatants. Women had no chance at all against men in hand-to-hand combat. With slings and stones, or bows and arrows, women could be more lethal. Guns narrowed the gap further (someone already mentioned female snipers). Colt revolvers were sold as the "great equalizer".

As for combat robotics -- you really should do some research. We already have robotic aircraft. We will soon see major breakthroughs in robotics for ground combat. They will help to some extent.

You are right about the body bags. IMHO, one of the unspoken reasons that elite leftists want women in combat roles is so that they will come home in body bags. The leftist elites know that no military campaign can be sustained, in the face of women in body bags. They are betting that having female ground combat troops guarantees that the U.S. will never again be able to win a ground war.