How many of the women got pregnant to get out of this research experiment?
Why mixed-gender? Let’s put it all men against all women and see what happens.
This continued social experiment is going to get a lot of good people killed unnecessarily.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya!! As a retired 0311/0331/0369 grunt I’ve often said that I’ve never personally met a woman who could do a tour in the grunts. I’m not saying these women don’t exist, but I haven’t met one. My question has always been, are we going to change the whole structure of the Marine Corps infantry so that we accommodate perhaps 20 women who are able to do it and who want to do it?
If there’s a woman out there who can hump with an 81 mm baseplate strapped to their pack for even three miles, I’d like to meet her. She’s quite a woman....
Geez. I hope we didn’t pay taxpayer money to fund this research.
Though I am sure we did.
I can tell you what they are doing, though. They will likely repeat this process, again...and again...and again, modifying each time, until they get the results they want.
Then, you won’t hear anything about the other studies, and they will point to the one that fulfilled their requirement that the mixed units perform as well as male only.
Only people who look hard will be able to tell they changed the requirements over time.
Here in Clown World we spend money to study the obvious, then act surprised at the results.
But for me, until it is a 1 to 1 matchup, women in combat roles is a non-starter.
Homowood is constantly promoting the physical equality issues in movies and cartoons. It is all fantasy, but many people actually believe their movies reflect reality. The stupidity of some people especially in blue states is a constant source of amusement.
What?
No Hollweirdesque kick-ass super-femmes arose to tilt the balance back in favor of female super-troopers?
No Ripleys or Buffys or whatever?
I am just sooooooo surprised...
This can’t be right. In most Hollywood movies I see, the small female soldiers can easily take on and defeat a muscular, 220 lb. man with karate moves.
No surprise at all.
“While the conclusions make it look like having women in combat isn’t a good idea, one important caveat of the tests is that many of of the male study participants had previously served in combat units, whereas female participants, by necessity, came directly from infantry schools or from noncombat jobs.”
Scientifically, another duplicate test should be run. Both all male and gender mixed teams should both come only from infantry schools and noncombat jobs. That will demonstrate how much, or if, the difference is gender mixed teams or teams with no combat experience verses teams with combat experience.
Kathleen Parker pointed out that a woman’s “oleaginous” body opening hinders their ability to be a soldier.
>>> .... all-male teams and crews outperformed mixed-gender ones on 69% of tasks evaluated (93 out of 134).
Seems to me the conclusion is the one we all know it would be about the more important tasks listed pertaining to combat.
What are the tasks that mixed-gender team performed better? Shouldn’t there be some enlightenment about that 31%?
What we need are more training and more money and a modified test to hide outcomes.
So what tests did the mixed gender teams do better on? Was it a “tie”, or were there any tests that mixed unit teams did way better?
I bet the squad with all the wimens was much better fed due to the females greater skills at sammich making.
Not gonna work. Imagine a split tail trying to hump ammo for any artillery unit. Lotta people gonna die because they can’t deliver.