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Survey: Less than 10 percent of Army women want to join combat units
Daily Caller ^ | 02/27/2014 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 02/27/2014 11:35:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Results from a U.S. Army survey show that female soldiers are not enthusiastic about entering combat positions. Maintaining physical standards for soldiers regardless of sex is nearly universally supported.

“Less than 8 percent of Army women who responded to the survey said they wanted a combat job,” reported The Associated Press, which obtained the results of a preliminary survey of 170,000 soldiers.

The assessment was emailed last year to active duty, reserves and Army National Guard members to gauge attitudes towards women in combat.

Only 2,238 of 30,000 women, or 7.5 percent, who responded to the questionnaire said that they would want to work in one of several combat positions which included infantry, armor, artillery and combat engineer positions, the AP reported.

Of the women who were open to combat jobs, “an overwhelming number said they’d like to be a Night Stalker — a member of the elite special operations helicopter crews who perhaps are best known for flying the Navy SEALS into Osama bin Laden’s compound in 2011.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 22514; army; combat; fakedate; military; women

1 posted on 02/27/2014 11:35:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet you they love those officer jobs!


2 posted on 02/27/2014 11:36:43 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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To: SeekAndFind
Conservative reaction: This proves we shouldn't invest too may resources in trying to feminize the military.

Liberal reaction: This proves women just don't understand what is good for them and we should spend more to make it easier for them.

3 posted on 02/27/2014 11:39:37 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
Maintaining physical standards for soldiers regardless of sex is nearly universally supported.

Notice they didn't say "equal physical standards".

4 posted on 02/27/2014 11:40:45 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course, I suspect that the majority of women that are pushing women in combat have never visited a recruiting office or experienced the thrill of boot camp.

Like a ‘scholar’ said many many moons ago that wars should be fought by the people that STARTED them....The OLD men, not waste YOUNG lives.

Of course we not only have Presidents (the last 3) that DON’T have sons to send off to war, they don’t REALLY go through the proper channels anymore.
On the other hand GHW had/has too many sons, just hope ‘they’ don’t foist another one on us.


5 posted on 02/27/2014 12:11:31 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 --When you have them by the short hairs, the minds and hearts soon follow.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Survey respondents showed widespread support for maintaining physical standards regardless of sex. Men worried that relaxed physical standards, such as lower weight-carrying and physical endurance requirements for women, was a “risk to their team,” a deputy chief of staff for Army operations told the AP.

“The women don’t want to lower the standards because they want the men to know they’re just as able as they are to do the same task,” David Brinkley, the deputy, added.

Maintaining physical standards while opening positions to women has proved difficult for all branches of the military.

It's good to see that the military women do not want to lower the physical standards. It's imperative that the standards remain as is and IF a woman wants to go the combat route that she earns it the old fashioned way.

If I were a recruiter and needed to sign up women who had a snowballs chance of hell to pass the physical standards I'd look at competitive swimmers. They have the upper body strength and the cardio to pass.

6 posted on 02/27/2014 12:57:52 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wouldn’t it just have been easier to leave the women in the WACs, WAVEs, and WAFs and skip all the ensuing upset and lowering of standards?


7 posted on 02/27/2014 12:58:29 PM PST by Gritty (Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out! - David Horowitz)
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To: Chgogal

FWIW, some Japanese warlords favored women ninja because of their superior acrobatic skills.


8 posted on 02/27/2014 1:11:41 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SeekAndFind
What a shock!

They are women, not men!

9 posted on 02/27/2014 2:39:06 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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