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‘Battlefield V’ is Right to Include Women — They Were Vital to World War II
Fandom ^ | May 25th 2018 | Dom Peppiatt

Posted on 06/10/2018 1:39:20 PM PDT by Ennis85

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To: Mollypitcher1

But they don’t serve in the front lines.


41 posted on 06/10/2018 3:14:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RedMonqey

The author skipped class the day they discussed the Fallacy of the Dramatic Example. Maybe he was playing video games.


42 posted on 06/10/2018 3:14:41 PM PDT by relictele
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To: All

PC is in the process of ruining another industry. It has been seeping into games for awhile because of pressure from the left. It’s a big target because 75% of gamers of young white males. One of the biggest franchises “Far Cry” latest entry set in US Midwest where a religious group terrorizes the area.


43 posted on 06/10/2018 3:16:59 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: sargon
It's true that many men cannot do what my friend did. That has no bearing on the fact that women have a place in that role, or that his opinion is the result of "naked prejudice."

The man quoted above (who was also awarded the Army Commendation Medal with "V" Device, I meant to mention before), served as 13F. His unit was also tasked with door-kicking in Kirkuk when artillery became less useless than rifles on the ground, and extra guns on convoys along Route Cherry. He is permanently disabled. He spent 36/84 months of his service in combat zones.

His is not an uninformed opinion, or one that should be casually discarded as "naked prejudice."

44 posted on 06/10/2018 3:18:59 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

You’re full of crap. The French Resistance was of enormous importance when we landed in Normandy. Get out a map of France and look up Toulouse in the southwest of France. The vicinity was the base of the 2eme Panzer Division, Das Reich. When we landed in Normandy, the call went out for this seasoned, hardline Panzer Division to get to Normandy. They should have been there in three days ( a time in which our troops were very vulnerable to being thrown back into the sea.) Thanks to the French Underground, they were so beat and battered when they finally reached Normandy from 7 to 16 days later, that it took them several days to regroup and they had lost several of their commanders. Eisenhower gave a written tribute to their effectiveness and his coubt that perhaps our landing would have not been favorable had it not been for the Resistance. Patton when he swept through France gave great credit to the French Resistance. He relied on them heavily to protect his flanks.
You have a lot to learn about the real war in France.


45 posted on 06/10/2018 3:21:11 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Minor correction: E-4 is a corporal or specialist in the Army, not a sergeant. No service has an E-4 sergeant.


46 posted on 06/10/2018 3:21:53 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Mollypitcher1
Which is why they pulled women out of combat units, and elected to keep them out of armor in 2015, right? (incidentally, around the same time the US military inexplicably opened combat roles to women, after numerous Service studies provided empirical evidence that it is a terrible idea).

Women in the Israeli military can serve in on of two co-ed "combat" units. They are both more akin to border patrol, and while their duties are no doubt hotter than most nation's border guards, they are not front-line combat troops. When Israel deploys to troops to conduct direct warfare, the units that go are all male.

47 posted on 06/10/2018 3:23:46 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Nifster

The problem I have with this is that it trivializes the sacrifices made by the hundreds of thousands of overwhelmingly white Christian or Jewish men who were killed or wounded in WWII. In 30 years all WWII veterans will be dead. By that time you can bet that the engineered public perception will be that the only white men involved were the Nazis and that women and POCs saved the world.


48 posted on 06/10/2018 3:24:43 PM PDT by beef
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To: Mollypitcher1

How many men died in WW2?
I’m talking soldiers. Not civilians. Not workers.
Military personnel.
So bite me.


49 posted on 06/10/2018 3:36:14 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Ennis85

Tell me how many women with prosthetic arms fought on the frontline.
It’s pure sjw bs because “we need to represent these groups in historical games”.


50 posted on 06/10/2018 3:36:21 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

There is literally nothing about the female body, not one attribute, in which it has an advantage over the male body when it comes to fighting.
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A couple of attributes for you to ponder. Women can go longer without sleep. Women have higher resistance to pain than men. Women resist the cold better than men. Women require less nourishment or water than men require to remain effective.

Give some thought to something besides strength which men have more of as a general rule, though not always. Endurance is something that women have in great abundance.


51 posted on 06/10/2018 3:39:40 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: beef

Sadly you may be correct. We must be the memory keepers


52 posted on 06/10/2018 3:43:26 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

And there’s this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPwlOOKedg


53 posted on 06/10/2018 3:47:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mollypitcher1
The French resistance were of minimal tactical importance, bordering on useless. Das Reich was not “beat and battered” at all. They were fighting fit and lethal when they arrived in the vicinity of Normandy, but they were not going to be committed to countering the beachhead once it had been established, which it had been by the already by the earliest possible date they could have arrived -- are you aware of what happened to German armor that countered allied landings at Salerno? You seem to be forgetting the awesome and unparalleled Naval power we had covering the beaches.

While the Maquis did oppose the march of Das Reich and threw up roadblocks wherever they could, this served more to annoy Obergruppenführer Lammerding and his staff, causing them to significantly delay themselves by stopping to commit several of the worst massacres of civilians of the war (in the western theatre). In numerous instances of the Maquis directly engaging Das Reich, the Germans were held up each time for a grand total of...20-30 minutes. Das Reich spend far more time than that at Oradour-sur-Glane, killing close to 700 civilians.

54 posted on 06/10/2018 3:47:36 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd ( Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: beef
White men, lest we forget.

Wait, I thought war and violence was unique to Islam?

55 posted on 06/10/2018 3:50:55 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: RedMonqey

How about one American woman who operated as a spy in Vichy France, was hunted by the Gestapo and escaped over the Pyrenees,only to return to France to help train resistance fighters when America finally got in the war. She had been injured in a riding accident and had a wooden leg. Do you think you could have escaped over the Pyrenees alone with a wooden leg and then returned to the fight? Her name was Virginia Hall.


56 posted on 06/10/2018 3:51:07 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Ennis85

Everyone knows that women are as strong as men if not stronger, and they are as smart as men if not smarter, and they are as fast as men if not faster, and they can spend money at Nordstrom...no wait, back to the narrative...Women are better than men, women are better than men, especially white men, especially white men that are conservatives and even more so if they are white men that are conservative and believe in God and women should kill these men....and then women should make statues of themselves and celebrate their freedom from men and amen...and amen and happily ever after.

That is kind of how it all sounds these days to me...


57 posted on 06/10/2018 3:52:04 PM PDT by Professional
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To: exDemMom

No, kid...

Correction to you-who has-never-served-but-knows-so-much-more-than-those-who-have-and-has-the-cheek-to-correct-a-veteran...

I was once an E-4 sergeant...

Tennessee Nana
American veteran


58 posted on 06/10/2018 3:52:14 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Mollypitcher1

I don’t know about the others but you are so far off on pain that I suspect you are wrong on those too.

The Air Force conducted studies on pain back, I think in the 70s. Pain was measured by a device clamped on the Achilles tendon.

Everyone always just assumed women could withstand pain because of childbirth.

In fact men could on average withstand twice the pain as women.


59 posted on 06/10/2018 3:52:28 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Trump20162020; beef

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War and mayhem are the Sacraments of Islam.
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60 posted on 06/10/2018 3:53:15 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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