Time Out! Time Out!
Close your eyes, Taliban - My fighting hole buddy has to tinkle.
Posted on 01/26/2013 9:26:55 AM PST by chessplayer
(CNSNews.com) - Gen. Martin Dempsey, President Obama’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Thursday that the U.S. military could figure out ways to preserve the privacy of young ladies serving in frontline combat units, including special forces combat units such as the Navy Seals and the U.S. Army’s Delta Force.
IIRC, when women were first admitted to West Point, they fared poorly when running PT with the men (all had to run in combat boots). This proved to be a little embarrassing to those who pushed for the admission of women. This problem was solved by having the cadets run in sneakers rather than combat boots.
That is what is meant by “gender-neutral standards.”
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Well, reconsider as we need someone to hold the targets up.
“Fags need not apply.”
Awww, at least let them design the uniforms. You know they’ll be fahbulous!
Any nation that will send it’s women to fight on the front lines is a dead nation.
The Soviets did it only after the German Army was in 50 miles of its capitol. Even then, the front line of the Red Army was 99 % male. Women were mostly snipers and such.
“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplus age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can—and must—be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly—and no doubt will keep on trying.”
- R.A.Heinlein
Remember REMFs ?
Its easy to give women in combat some privacy.
Make them REMs, rear echelon mothers.
For field combat situations I suggest Extra strength Depends.
It will accomplish 2 things.
It will provide the ladies with their own private in the field latrines and keep the male soldiers from wanting to get into their pants.
I remember during the mid-1980s a poll was done in US Army Europe among the female soldiers: It asked, Do you think that you will be evacuated with the wives & children in case of war? 80 percent said “Yes.” so much for most females wanting to fight in the front or rear areas. This has apparently changed somewhat during the last 10 years, but I wonder what the pregnancy rate among deploying units is? How many of the female soldiers get preganant so that they will not deploy to a combat zone?
Time Out! Time Out!
Close your eyes, Taliban - My fighting hole buddy has to tinkle.
“I served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a Marine infantry squad leader. We rode into war crammed in the back of amphibious assault vehicles. They are designed to hold roughly 15 Marines snugly; due to maintenance issues, by the end of the invasion we had as many as 25 men stuffed into the back. Marines were forced to sit, in full gear, on each other’s laps and in contorted positions for hours on end. That was the least of our problems.”
“The invasion was a blitzkrieg. The goal was to move as fast to Baghdad as possible. The column would not stop for a lance corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, or even a company commander to go to the restroom. Sometimes we spent over 48 hours on the move without exiting the vehicles. We were forced to urinate in empty water bottles inches from our comrades.”
“Many Marines developed dysentery from the complete lack of sanitary conditions. When an uncontrollable urge hit a Marine, he would be forced to stand, as best he could, hold an MRE bag up to his rear, and defecate inches from his seated comrade’s face.”
Good article for the Joint Chiefs and feminists to read. But they assure us the women will have privacy.
Guys who were Marines in WW II...landed on beaches with eighty pounds of gear. For four to six weeks...they’d hike around and launch fire-fights with the Japanese. No one showered. You might have changed socks maybe once a week, but it was harsh living conditions. After a month of this....if you were lucky...the fight was done, and you recovered back at the Navy vessel for the first shower in four weeks. If you can find one young lass out of a thousand able to tote the hundred pounds of gear and live harshly for a month like that....fine. My humble guess is that she’ll weigh 200 pounds and be tossed out shortly for being overweight by Marine standards.
Wow, pretty disgusting conditions. From the article:
......”Combat effectiveness is based in large part on unit cohesion. The relationships among members of a unit can be irreparably harmed by forcing them to violate societal norms. “
Spot on observation by the author.
I think you can forget the "Q" in QRF, too, if you really have to be somwhere on time.
Dempsey is a despicable piece of work.
“Many Marines developed dysentery from the complete lack of sanitary conditions.”
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I’d like to read that — what’s it from? Do you have a book/article title, or a link, or both? Thanks!
They didn’t have a problem in Starship Troopers - everyone took showers together...I’m sure GI Joe would love GI Jane coming in...of course, depends on what Jane looks like...I wonder how the fraternization rule would work at that point?
oh well - everything else is being tossed out the door - I wonder how many females would sign up to combat tours...
Then again, when fighting insurgents - everyone gets combat time out in the red zone - so it’s kinda pointless — conventional wars are a thing of the past...
They are shaping it into a political arm for the left, to use against the citizens. It will be weakened as a fighting force against foreign enemies, but it will be more effective as a tool of our overlords. Just look at who they’re trying to entice into the military-women, racial minorities, sodomites-the demographics who most support the left, and have been least represented at the sharp end in combat. While at the same time making it an uncomfortable fit for patriotic white males.
I’m against women in combat, but then again, I’m against women voting. I say, since we are going to let them vote, let’s make it contingent on registering for the selective service and being eligible to be drafted into the infantry. Let’s see how many want to take that bargain, and enjoy equal responsibilities of citizenship, along with their equal rights.
Dempsey is bootlicker-in-chief. Wherever there is a despicable action against a military personnel or the military in general, his fingerprint will be there. He’s just perfect for Hussein’s purposes.
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