Posted on 04/21/2014 12:00:08 PM PDT by kingattax
As another said, way to miss the point.
“Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved. But if you fail to save the women and children, you’ve had it, you’re done, you’re through! You join Tyrannosaurus Rex, one more breed that bilged its final test.” - R.A.Heinlein
When I went through Basic we still had WAACs. Females were integrated into my field in the mid-70s. We had one big advantage, any student who couldn’t make it in advanced training was reassigned to another school. One of the things they had to do was carry two 5 gallon cans of red lead paint about 50 feet. Old fashioned red lead, really heavy.
Well, at least she gets it.
No need to be sorry. It SHOULD BE brought up. :-)
Alas, brave new Babylon.
Won’t be long now.
Posted from Treasure Cay, with wifi by the pool.
Amen, but “reality” is currently out of favor.
History will prove to be a harsh mistress, when natural law realities are reasserted.
Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends its non-shaving boys and cane-borne old men deserves to be destroyed, and will be by societies that do not make that mistake.
70 years ago we had nearly 10% of the population of this country (nearly 20% of the men) in uniform and even then, we didn’t have to send our women to fight.
There’s no good reason to start now.
Ping.
Conservatism is the realization that social norms are the result of hard lessons learned at great cost over generations. Just because one does not grasp the reason for that norm does not invalidate it; abandon it at grave risk.
If the test is set up with logical and practical standards (not just legacy standards) then no one can bitch. If a soldier weighs 180 pounds and they need to be carried/dragged 50 yards to safety—that is the standard. Because the standard should be there to save lives and complete the mission. Everything else is secondary. If an officer is unable to do that, they have no business being near combat.
France and Britain used to be tough. Until the Somme.
Generations were wiped out.
I don’t know why Russia and Germany had enough young men to kill each other off by the millions twenty years later.
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