Posted on 01/15/2014 6:32:13 AM PST by Phillyred
No. Some woman officers think they want to be in the combat arms so they can get on a faster track for promotions and command. They don’t actually have any idea what combat really is: killing people and sending your young people out where they will be killed or maimed.
Enlisted women want nothing to with combat and they are non-volunteering in droves.
Only dimwit careerists, worthless senior officers and brain-dead, non-serving congressturds and certainly the enemy want women in combat.
What I was trying to point out, is when this madness started.
This is a 40 year effort and it is nowhere near completion.
My dad would not talk about his WW2 experiences, except to tell a mini version of how he a SSGT and a PFC volunteered to put our Flag back up on “The ROCK” when Old Mac retook it. 6 years of his life was spent fighting and the enemy was very brutal.
My late husband's uncle fought under Merrile’s Marauders the original band, man did he come back messed up again 6 years of straight fighting.
To slightly shift subject but it ties in to the mental end of violence that causes PTSD, is the murder victim's families. No one has given a name to their plight. I have.
SGD, Seasonal Grief Disorder. It is not there daily to the degree our Troops go through, but it rears its ugly head often. For me it Oct-Mid Jan. Then starts to repeat in April.
I suspect that the spouses of our KIA go through the same thing.
I stopped watching the local news for the first 15 mins because it is just about one murder, rape or beating after another in Memphis. Crime capitol of TN. I am getting to old to take that kind of mental stress o a daily basis,
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