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Tensions rise over women in combat
The Hill ^ | September 20, 2015 | Kristina Wong & Rebecca Kheel

Posted on 09/20/2015 1:06:09 PM PDT by jazusamo

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To: jazusamo
Very proud of our Marine Corps for displaying the integrity that all of our combat forces should have.

Very disappointed that the other services didn't have the guts to stand against this dilution of our combat capabilities. That whole Ranger School fiasco was disgusting: senior army officers did everything possible to get a pair of women to graduate - to prove what? Passing a reasonably rigorous school doesn't justify mixing young women in with the males and putting all of them into the meatgrinder that is the infantry's job.

Combat is organized killing and it cannot be adjusted to accommodate social ambitions.

21 posted on 09/20/2015 1:36:03 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: mrsmel

At the first sign that a national emergency is imminent, most of the females will suddenly become pregnant and be taken out of the picture.


22 posted on 09/20/2015 1:36:03 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: kearnyirish2

How long will it take for those 35 million Muslims to make their way to American borders? What else can men do but make an army to fight the invaders?

Future soldiers won’t even think about the draft because they will be fighting in American streets for their lives. They’ll be happy to join up. The draft will look like an opportunity, not coercion.


23 posted on 09/20/2015 1:37:24 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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The physical differences between men and women is only a small part of why women should not be in a combat postion.

Nature has given the male the instinctive “protector” mindset.
Men in combat could not pay full attention to the task at hand is women were present... His “natural instinct” would be to keep part of his attention to protecting the female...

THAT is nature, folks...It won’t change...

It would be more of a distraction for a combat unit.


24 posted on 09/20/2015 1:38:24 PM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: jazusamo

Why don’t the members of the HOR who haven’t served in combat just SHUT UP and let those who’ve had experiences involving women vs no women in combat units lead the discussion?


25 posted on 09/20/2015 1:38:31 PM PDT by grania
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To: Steely Tom

There is that, but I’d like to see the military have to deal with this “unintended consequence” after being forced to go all the way with their desired goal of “equality” and “diversity is our strength”. The mlitary has already been so screwed up through social engineering, we need to see this through to the bitter end and all the unintended consequences before we ever have a hope of fixing it. As long as they squeak by through disingenuousness, we’ll never get to fix the problem.


26 posted on 09/20/2015 1:39:10 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jazusamo

One rule, one standard for everyone. No exceptions. Those who measure up stay. Others go.


27 posted on 09/20/2015 1:41:18 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Boonie

I agree. It’s not only the negative effect of women not being to truly pull their weight, it’s the factor of men having an added problem to deal with besides the one of the women being useless in fulfilling their roles.


28 posted on 09/20/2015 1:41:23 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: I want the USA back

Including draft registration. Let’s play this all the way through, too late to minimise the damage now.


29 posted on 09/20/2015 1:42:22 PM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Steely Tom

A friend of mine who was a career Navy man, told me that some Navy women become pregnant to avoid sea duty, or get reassigned from sea duty..

He told me that some Navy girls get pregnant on the ships, and that the fathers of babies are their fellow seamen. But, even though sexual activity is against Navy regulations, people are not disciplined for the transgressions.

You can just imagine, an eager sailor, willing to help out a woman sailor who wants to get off the ship. Holy toledo.......


30 posted on 09/20/2015 1:42:42 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: donna
How long will it take for those 35 million Muslims...

How long will it be before the majority of recruits will not be assimilated US citizens?

31 posted on 09/20/2015 1:42:58 PM PDT by grania
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To: Chainmail

I couldn’t agree more.

The brass in the Marine Corps have the guts to stand up against this pathetic CinC and his butt boys. The Army brass have folded, not only on this but look at Maj Gen Dahl’s testimony regarding deserter Bergdahl the other day about not deserving incarceration. Unbelievable!


32 posted on 09/20/2015 1:45:36 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: DJ Taylor

There are never going to be very many women or homosexuals at the sharp end, just fractional percentages at best.
The more likely situation is that, other than a few officers passing through combat units in their career progression, they will populate support units as today.
Note though that women already do have some of the dangerous posts in the military, especially helicopter pilots and crew.
In a large scale war, Korea or Vietnam or bigger, the support units which are already full of women will be vulnerable. I’m not sure how the public will handle heavy casualties there. The casualties so far have trickled in, 144 dead in ten years.


33 posted on 09/20/2015 1:47:10 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: grania

Amen


34 posted on 09/20/2015 1:47:33 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: mrsmel

I think if/when we are faced with a real national emergency, all the social engineering stuff will go right out the window and into the memory hole. It will happen with incredible speed.

Within a single news cycle, the MSM will go from all-Liberalism, all the time, to old-fashioned rah-rah patriotism. You’ll think you walked into a time machine and were transported back to 1942.

All the social engineering will vanish like a morning fog. The call will go out for red-blooded young males to show up and defend their country. Talk of homosexuals and women in the military will become unmentionable, just as the deaths, images and video from 9-11 have been expunged from public consciousness.

And it will work, too. The reason it will work is simple: when people are personally, physically afraid for their lives, they no longer have the luxury of social engineering.

That’s all liberalism is, when you get right down to it: a luxury. It’s a byproduct of the incredible wealth of our advanced society and economy. If we return again to existential fear, it will vanish and never be mentioned again.

Or at least, not until the generation that wins that war is too old to bear witness.


35 posted on 09/20/2015 1:49:02 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: jazusamo

The Israelis tried this same concept early on and found that it didn’t work. They probably did it because they really didn’t have that many men.


36 posted on 09/20/2015 1:51:40 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: donna

Nobody is going to willingly sign up for a government that won’t even acknowledge the danger; neither party will ever take steps to preserve the WASP culture that built this country. In fact, both are trying to out-do each other in dismantling it.


37 posted on 09/20/2015 1:56:45 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: grania

Already happen?

The FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every Branch Of The Military
Business Insider
10/22/2011

The FBI has released a new gang assessment announcing that there are 1.4 million gang members in the US, a 40 percent increase since 2009, and that many of these members are getting inside the military (via Stars and Stripes).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2796474/posts


38 posted on 09/20/2015 1:56:48 PM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: jazusamo

Twenty years ago, I spoke with a former Army officer. He stated at that time there were several women in his outfit; and that when they got the “bug out” alarm, the women (due to weak upper body strength) couldn’t load up the heavy equipment onto the trucks. So, they just simply didn’t bug out. A bad situation in a REAL combat situation. - This stupid idea that “Little Molly” should be able to do ANYTHING she WANTS to do is just that - a stupid idea.


39 posted on 09/20/2015 1:59:05 PM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: jazusamo

Imagine the public uproar when a unit of Marines composed of 30% LBGT, 30% women, and 40% men are captured by ISIS, and the Muslims threaten to behead, rape, and throw them off high buildings. The idiots in the Pentagon need to be removed and quit these social experiments.


40 posted on 09/20/2015 2:27:45 PM PDT by batterycommander (- a little more rubble, a lot less trouble.)
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