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Joint Chiefs Chairman: ‘We Can Figure Out Privacy’ for Young Ladies in Frontline Combat,
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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.


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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodod; dempsey; jointchiefs; martindempsey; privacy; usmilitary; womenincombat
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To: chessplayer

Wonder if any of the recent “changes” in military leadership had anything to do with this about to come down the pike?


61 posted on 01/26/2013 10:48:39 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

I remember being addressed with the adjectives starting with “you piece of” or “you pile of”. When I was addressed simply by my last name I could feel the love.


62 posted on 01/26/2013 10:50:36 AM PST by Starstruck (If I were a criminal I would be for gun control.)
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To: Steel Wolf
There was this retired former female AF pilot on who was literally reducing military service to a jobs program where promotion opportunities were far more important than any possible mission.

She, of course, is so totally sociopathic she probably couldn't get promoted but she did do pilot stuff and got shot.

That, BTW, did not make her more intelligent or knowledgeable ~ she's lucky she didn't get shot twice more.

63 posted on 01/26/2013 10:51:13 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: chessplayer
Headline?

Won't be “disrespectful of the Islamic religion”
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Plans For Women in Combat
To ensure “cultural sensitivity” women will be required to wear burkas

64 posted on 01/26/2013 10:54:14 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: momtothree

Exactly. If they’re not blowing smoke and truly plan to put females in frontline combat, there will be more “stories” of the kind they will suppress, than of the “heroic Tiffani” kind. They think the male soldiers get PTSD now? Just imagine the trauma they’ll have after seeing their fellow “soldiers” gang-raped, used, then killed.


65 posted on 01/26/2013 10:57:52 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: central_va
Time to form an all male new Confederate Army. Fags need not apply.

Hell yes sign me up,My wife will be the medical Nurse Practitioner and cook

66 posted on 01/26/2013 11:00:27 AM PST by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: chessplayer

“Privacy” for SEALs in combat????

I gotta laugh!

“You need to change a Tampon, Lt? There’s no trees? How ‘bout the rest of the team just looks away...”

How silly ARE our 4-stars these days?
Like. OMG.


67 posted on 01/26/2013 11:00:38 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: mrsmel

Thanks, it’s good to hear that some women are still sensible about this stuff. When I tell most women my opinions like that, they look at me like I’m crazy.


68 posted on 01/26/2013 11:07:35 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: muawiyah
I saw her... on Hannity... a chip the size of Manhattan on her shoulder. "Better not p*ss me off" look on her face.

The guy on who was supposed to be arguing the counterpoint spent so much time qualifying himself and apologizing that he never did manage a cogent argument. An utter fail, even Hannity had to cut him off.

69 posted on 01/26/2013 11:08:29 AM PST by skeeter
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To: momtothree

es about Tiffani or Amber being a soldier.. how they saved the good guys, captured the bad guys etc... The interviews will be full of lies. See, look at little Tiffani, no bigger than a gnat, and she saved all the men around her.


Ever watch the Sci-Fi channel movies? Not the old ones but the new ones. The women in those movies can beat the crap out of their weight in men,,,all at the same time.


70 posted on 01/26/2013 11:11:19 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: Anima Mundi

> Maybe the goal is to destroy the protective instinct in the male because if you lose it then you will also have a diminished will to protect in general...as in protect your country, your family, your culture, your values.

There may be some validity to that. Good point.


71 posted on 01/26/2013 11:16:59 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: chessplayer
Supplies needed for front lines...


72 posted on 01/26/2013 11:22:11 AM PST by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Bryan24

Any nation that will send it’s women to fight on the front lines is a dead nation.

...the other night I saw a female officer on O’reilly debating this topic...against a guy who spent three quarters of his limited time telling us how much he admired said female officer...she made the point that women’s standards would be no more lessened than for older and weaker males...and BO and his other guest said nothing...I wish someone would have said this to her: OK, let’s say you are a military advisor for, say, Alexander the Great, and you say to him “Prior to going into battle agaisnt a foe vowing destruction upon you, you should infuse your finest fighting men with older, weaker men, in order that opportunity for glory falls equally on all” ...I think he would have had her killed.
...Yet that’s essentially exactly what she argued for...without the slightest indication that she realized the idiocy of that argument...and neither did her debate ‘opponent’, who was too busy telling us how wonderful women are, so worried was he about seeming a bully...


73 posted on 01/26/2013 11:22:21 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: chessplayer
Fact of the matter is that in other nations women have been in combat. Israel and the Old Soviet Union certainly come to mind and the Soviets had women in the front lines during W.W. II.
Now as to what privacy these women have had and/or have in other nations I don't know.

I think the problem here stems from our own culture and expectations and the way our Army and Navy are run to begin with.

I have reservations on just how women will work out in combat situations. If our recent experience is any indication, especially the co-ed situation in the Navy with the accusations of over the top sexual encounters not to mention pregnancies, I really don't see how this can work.

Anyone remember Demi Moore's film of several years ago “G I Jane”. What a movie for Political Correctness, little ahead of it's time but now here we are.

Now the question is when will we have women in the SEALS???

74 posted on 01/26/2013 11:22:39 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: chessplayer

“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.”

Incredible. I was watching a WWII documentary on the war on the Eastern Front; an older German doctor who had served there as a young man was describing how he had to instruct the soldiers to open the rear seam on their trousers so they could defecate; otherwise they would absolutely be frostbitten.


75 posted on 01/26/2013 11:31:42 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: jsanders2001
It is the same agenda that drives all these "social reforms"--the Marxist project requires the atomization of society into a homogeneous undifferentiated mass of protoplasm--drones and worker ants. That requires the destruction of all intermediary social structures.

A key target of the Marxists has always been the structure of the nuclear family. To destroy the family they have adopted several strategies, but one is to dissolve the boundaries between the sexes, thereby weakening the bonds of marriage. When the roles of men and women are the same, marriage is no longer meningful.

Once we had a nation in which the men did the fighting and the women kept the home fires burning. No more.

76 posted on 01/26/2013 11:32:44 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: chessplayer

Ever watch the Sci-Fi channel movies? Not the old ones but the new ones. The women in those movies can beat the crap out of their weight in men,,,all at the same time.

...the sci-fi channel seems especially addicted to that sort of nonsense...it irks the you know what out of me...almost as much as the TV commercials that without fail depict fathers and husbands as utter chimps, wimps, and moral and intellectual failures...one particular Allstate auto insurance ad makes me want to kick the screen in, the one where wifey glares at her hubby and intones ‘Silence’ in the announcer’s voice, I rave and irritate my own wife when it comes on, which is quite often...


77 posted on 01/26/2013 11:33:45 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: mrsmel

“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.”

While I would put nothing past this government or the liberal agenda, I believe it has a lot more to do with redistribution of wealth (workfare) while basically eliminating the large standing professional army (which has been shrinking for years). The military has often served as an entry point to the middle class for poor people of all shapes, sizes, and colors, and this is simply directing those efforts towards the demographics to which you refer. I don’t think there is any intention of using them as real soldiers; attempts to do so to date have been disastrous.


78 posted on 01/26/2013 11:37:06 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Didn’t the men still do better in sneakers?


79 posted on 01/26/2013 11:43:13 AM PST by heye2monn
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To: momtothree

“What will NEVER be shown is when Tiffani is captured and what happens to her or how so many of her male counterparts die trying to save her butt. Reality doesn’t fit the agenda.”

Yeah; remember the haze surrounding the capture & treatment of Pvt. Lynch? Didn’t fit an agenda (either that she couldn’t fight, or what her captors proceeded to do).


80 posted on 01/26/2013 11:48:13 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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