Sergeant Major Speaks Out On Women In Combat

Funker530 ^ | December 8, 2015 | Josh

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Sergeant Major Lehew, a 27 year veteran of the United States Marine Corps, speaks the honest truth that no one wants to hear about women in combat.

Sergeant Major Justin Lehew is a beast among men. At a time where the entire military is absolutely terrified of speaking their minds, he personified moral courage. This man is a leader of Marines, and when it comes to protecting the combat effectiveness of the United States Marine Corps, he let his words speak without the fear of repercussion.

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Over 400 interesting comments in thread.

[armydawg505]

Bravo Sergeant Major!!! But you have to understand that this President and his hit men don’t give a damn about the military or readiness, they only want to destroy it any way they can. Turning it into a left wing social laboratory is the easiest way in their minds to do irreparable damage. That is their goal and that is what they are doing.

[jazusamo]

Thank you for speaking out, Sergeant Major Lehew. You spoke the truth and thankfully you’ve suffered no repercussions.

SECNAV Mabus wouldn’t know the truth if it kicked him in the butt plus he doesn’t want to hear it. He got his orders from Bambam and neither were about to wait to hear the truth.

[B212]

I recommend Testosterone shots each week for the female recruits....after a month on Test....they will beat the hell out of the guys....and toilet standing-up

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[drypowder]

Obozo putting women in combat roles under the premise of PC equality is nothing more than another way for him to achieve his goal of weakening the US military. The man needs to be removed before this country takes the big fall that obozo so desperately seeks. It is what it is.

[Rhinoman]

I agree.

I was in the AF in the 70s when they first started integrating women into maintenance specialties. The requirement was that you had to be able to lift and hold 80 lbs over your head. The reason for the requirement was that some components that we had to install weighed that much and there was no room for two people. On person had to lift the component and hold it in place with one hand while starting bolts with the other. They waived that requirement for the women who first went through training. As a result we had maintainers who could only do some tasks, not all tasks.

As I progressed in my career I got to work with many women in mobile radars. As a rule they tended to go to sick call more often and miss more duty. They got tired easier and we had to take up the slack.

As a rule, women are less capable of performing heavy lifting and physical labor than men. In a military setting, that may spell mission failure for the whole unit.

[vetvetdoug]

I was in the USAF at the same time during the 1970's. We avoided getting assigned with woman at every turn because we knew we'd be left with the duties by ourselves as the women would go to sick call when even a bee farted on them. It was ridiculous. I did see one woman that held her own and worked but she was an exception. Most would play the I'm a poor weak little sickly woman card at every chance. There are exceptions but I didn't see many of them.

[Tired of Taxes]

Thank you, Sergeant Major Lehew, for addressing the issue in a civil and professional manner.

Women and men should be held to the same standards for the same job.

[centurion316]

Politicians do not care how many soldiers and Marines, male and female, die as a result of this clearly political agenda. This has nothing to do with national defense, gender equality, or a response to all of the women pounding on the door to get in (that would only be a tiny number). This is about getting liberal votes who will never volunteer to serve in the military, much less in the infantry. The feminist left want to show their political power and they have succeeded.

[wbill]

Hmmmm.....so who knows what's better for our military? A Sgt Major who has been there and done that, or a Metrosexual Feminist Bureaucrat who's afraid of a dark night in suburbia?

Sadly, I know how the current administration would answer.

[rfreedom4u]

Semper Fi!

[EternalVigilance]

Bump for reality.

[PIF]

Exerpt:
With our limited manpower we cannot afford to not train everyone to the best of their abilities. This was as stacked as a unit could get with the best Marines to give it a 100 percent success rate as we possibly could. End result? The best women in The GCEITF as a group in regard to infantry operations were equal or below in most all cases to the lowest 5 percent of men as a group in this test study. They are slower on all accounts in almost every technical and tactical aspect and physically weaker in every aspect across the range of military operations.

Damning

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Sgt. Major Lehew

[pfflier]

Same deal in the ICBM (Minuteman) maintenance field, late 1970's. You had to be able to hand hoist, by rope and sling, loads up to 55 lbs up 30 feet through the personal access hatch (PAH) at a launch facility (LF). Sometimes this was repeated four or five times depending on the maintenance task.

We had several females and the one who was most successful was the smallest in stature but man, did she have guts. Still, none were up to the task and all, over time had attendance problems due to obgyn issues and pregnancy. BTW all pregnancies were to co-workers in the same shop (EMT) and only one in those four were they married to each other...but that's another story.

Bottom line, all but one of the females either got out early because of pregnancy (9 months of specialty training gone..) or were assigned to limited duty jobs like the T.O. library or shop house mouse duties. Only the smallest one continued in her AFSC until the end of her enlistment.

[SZonian]

Bravo Sgt Major,

It’s not just in combat, there are many jobs in the services where women flat out fail due to their physical stature...

Aircraft maintenance is one where the vast majority of female maintainers just can’t cut it. In my 20+ years, saw more in support, tool crib and administrative jobs than actually on the line.

Caused us to have to work more hours, weekends etc. because they couldn’t pull their weight.

[Jack Hammer]

No one with an IQ over fifty wants the Corps to be used to promote obama’s leftist social experiments; alas however, the Brass are only too happy to sell out for promotions and perks.

Meanwhile, America’s leftists are only too happy to destroy one of America’s finest and most magnificent institutions.

[RinaseaofDs]

LCWB at the Academy was 1979.

Icebreakers got women in 1982. 25 reported, 21 medevac’d off before the cruise was done. Pregnant.

After that, female crew members, as a group, earned a nickname:

‘Morale Gear’

Female enlisted berthing:

“Morale Locker’

Word came down that was to stop. That’s the problem with humor, at the center is a grain of truth. The one at the center of that joke happened to be as big around as a Master Chief’s coffee mug.

[Eagles6]

Apparently Congress has 30 days to stop this madness.