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Was There Any Doubt About The Outcome? (TRADOC - Women in infantry. The myth of gender neutrality.)
Blackfive ^ | 5-19-2013 | Deebow

Posted on 05/20/2013 11:42:03 AM PDT by servo1969

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Combat is not gender neutral. It always favors the strong over the weak.
Fielding an army that is compromised by mandatory weakness is irrational.

Unless, of course, someone has decided that victory is no longer the goal.

1 posted on 05/20/2013 11:42:03 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Can’t wait for the first woman to hump the 81 mm mortar baseplate on a 15 mile hike. Should be interesting...


2 posted on 05/20/2013 11:46:08 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (t)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

hilarity ensues...


3 posted on 05/20/2013 11:49:38 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: servo1969

The ‘ONE’ will simply ordain an executive order mandating that women are physically equal to men, thus warping the laws of the universe so that the rainbow-unicorn army can succeed!


4 posted on 05/20/2013 11:50:53 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I’d just like to see 100% of the women combat ready and not bowing out by getting preggers or claiming medical issues. Getting pregnant is the one thing women can do that men cannot.


5 posted on 05/20/2013 11:51:08 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: servo1969

These anti-American jackasses have already put homosexuals in the barracks, women in the foxholes, and umbrellas in the hands of our beloved marines (didn’t they look embarrassed?).

Too bad that they have so much contempt for America and what made us great. May this administration go straight to hell.


6 posted on 05/20/2013 11:52:38 AM PDT by laweeks
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"I’d just like to see 100% of the women combat ready and not bowing out by getting preggers or claiming medical issues. Getting pregnant is the one thing women can do that men cannot."

While in Somalia, there were a number of women who were rotated back due to getting preggers. Rumor had it at the time that they did it on purpose to get out of the deployment. Whether on purpose or not, it's another issue the left does not want to face. A rifle squad being down by several people in a combat zone because women got pregnant is not acceptable in my eyes...
7 posted on 05/20/2013 11:54:15 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden (t)
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First gulf war, 30% were preggers at any given time and more than half never deployed for one reason or another.


8 posted on 05/20/2013 11:55:43 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: servo1969

I don’t understand why women can’t serve in combat. After all, when I got to the movies, all the Mila Jovich types can kick men’s a$$es$ at will. I’m sure ALL women could perform at that level if they really wanted to.


9 posted on 05/20/2013 11:57:40 AM PDT by rbg81
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Life and death are not important to the left - “equality” is the only thing that matters.


10 posted on 05/20/2013 12:04:17 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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Like little children they want attention and rewards and awards without doing what it takes to get them.


11 posted on 05/20/2013 12:05:34 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: servo1969
Israel is the only country in the world with a mandatory military service requirement for women. That said there are roughly 30% of the jobs that they are not allowed to do.
12 posted on 05/20/2013 12:09:27 PM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: TurboZamboni

No hilarity...it ain’t funny!! Let’s compare this nonsense to actual history, but with “Modern” thinking. Men and woman are deem absolutely equal. Equal intellect, ethics, physical ability and endurance. Equality all the way.
IF a “Titanic” went down today, who would call “women and children first?” There would be a panicky push to the boats and who do you think would survive.
Seek out the factual story of the British vessel “Birkenhead”. Troop sailing ship carrying soldiers AND their families. Ship sank as the MEN lined up in formation and watched and their women and children rowed away.
Feminists call for total equality, not realizing they are rapidly eliminating any reason for chivalry, courtesy, special care for the FEMALE of the specie. Sometime the worst that can happen to you is to ACHIEVE your aims.
Consider the highway at night. You, a MAN, see an apparently disabled car, a FEMALE standing forlorn beside it. Is this legit or a trap come-on leading to a criminal charge that can’t be fought? Too many would be afraid to take the chance.


13 posted on 05/20/2013 12:15:09 PM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views")
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"Like little children they want attention and rewards and awards without doing what it takes to get them."

Sounds like homos wanting to change the definition of marriage so they can do it, too. They don't want to do what it takes to be married...like finding someone of the opposite sex to marry.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

14 posted on 05/20/2013 12:20:43 PM PDT by wku man (Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
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not so fast, toad

some of these odd coules are going to claim full maternity leave by use of surrogates to breed babies, just wait


15 posted on 05/20/2013 12:22:08 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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My friend JB stopped to help two girls; they said give us $50 or we’ll rip our blouses off and call the cops. I said let’em rip. He said how do I explain to my wife why I even stopped.


16 posted on 05/20/2013 12:25:19 PM PDT by RHS Jr (Pity the banksters when Jesus comes)
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I was a USAF officer and had hell getting them to work their normal night shifts. I imagine getting them into combat is really hell.


17 posted on 05/20/2013 12:29:03 PM PDT by RHS Jr (Pity the banksters when Jesus comes)
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"Can’t wait for the first woman to hump the 81 mm mortar baseplate on a 15 mile hike. Should be interesting..."

Or break track on an M-1, or kneel in the back of a Bradley, using brute upper body strength to lift 70-pound TOW missiles and load them into the launcher. Do that repeatedly, all day long, for days on end. As a big, strong, 23-year old Cav Scout, it kicked my backside! The average woman couldn't do it.

Then, of course, are the hygiene requirements of females. I'm not sure about today, but back in the 80s and 90s, we often would spend 30-45-60 days in the field with maybe a single shower run, IF we were lucky. We'd bathe as well as we could, out in the open, out of our steel pot or a 5-gallon jerry can. What about that, TRADOC?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

18 posted on 05/20/2013 12:30:41 PM PDT by wku man (Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
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To: silverleaf

Yep, two homos will fight over who gets the “maternity” leave.


19 posted on 05/20/2013 12:45:00 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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“I was a USAF officer and had hell getting them to work their normal night shifts”

I did a tour in a NORAD facility that of course was 24x7x365. The women bitched and moaned about their kids and not able to work shifts. Well, they did their shifts under direct threat of prosecution if they were late. That was 30 years ago. I was stupefied then that women who begged to be in the military wanted nothing to do with actually being in the military. I know it is far worse today. I can’t imagine being an office now and trying to get past all the PC crap and get the single women and men to get to work.


20 posted on 05/20/2013 12:50:57 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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