Posted on 02/02/2016 9:57:03 AM PST by thackney
Obama makes it harder for white men to be promoted
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3393180/posts
Can't argue with that.
I admit for me, there is a “They asked for it...let’s give em what they ask for!” element inside me too!
But like some others have said, the people who should have it stuck to them won’t be the ones stuck.
Darn it.
For a really good assessment of this situation, written by a female Marine, check this link: Jude Eden, USMC on women in combat and training.
In particular, about halfway down is her seminal piece: Women in Combat: The Question of Standards, by Jude Eden
Here, from that article, is the passage that says it all:
"...Meanwhile, the argument to maintain the combat exclusion makes itself easily in every aspect. Including women in combat units is bad for combat, bad for women, bad for men, bad for children, and bad for the country.
The argument for the combat exclusion is provable all the time, every time.
Political correctness has no chance against Nature. Her victories are staring us in the face at all times.
The men just keep being able to lift more and to run faster, harder, and longer with more weight on their backs while suffering fewer injuries. They just keep never getting pregnant.
The combat units have needs that women cannot meet. Women have needs that life in a combat unit cannot accommodate without accepting significant disadvantage and much greater expense. Where 99 percent of men can do the heavy-lifting tasks typical of gunners, but 85 percent of women cannot, there is no gap women need to fill..."
done - thanks !
I had a ‘krewe’ of men and women subordinates, as a USAF warehouse supervisor in 1975, all races, shapes, and sizes.
The women could not hold their own, then, and that was not a ‘combat role’, combat job series number, nothin’!
If there was a shift change, you guessed it, whine, whine, whine.
If there was, (this being a military establishment), a mobility drill exercise, or an Operational Readiness Inspection, which included getting to your on-the-base workspace in 15 minutes or less, from wherever you were and what you were doing on-base or in town, and in correct uniform, whine, whine, whine. If the exercise required you to stay at your workspace for more than 12 hours, or over the entire weekend, (sleeping in the warehouse racks), without a break, (flight kitchens provided box lunches and coffee), in the clothes on your back ... you guessed it.
Since then, America has seen fit to swallow the swill of having female politicians being elected to mayorships, governorships.
As a Hurricane Katrina survivor, I saw the meltdown of a female governor firsthand.
So, to sum up, not no, but HECK NAW, do i want to see any women in any kind of combat, or combat support roles! They were bad enough in the ‘behind the lines’ jobs.
I have no problem working with and for women in industry or private practice. I respect their ability to do their jobs in industry or private practice as well or better than I can.
I feel quite differently about warfare. In combat situations where the physical strength of men performing tasks (in the heat of it, in the absence of all those devices that make physical strength less of an issue such as ammo lifts and trucks to carry equipment) where humping boxes of mortar rounds or ammo up a hill to units who are running low because the enemy is coming in strength, or a unit trying to hold its own critical position in vicious hand to hand combat in a dug in position, a 25% loss in physical strength capability (at a minimum) in that unit because it is evenly populated with females, is unacceptable, no, it is criminal in the way they are going to end up there. As I said in another post: "I feel that doing this now (forcing women into combat roles) with the wind of political correctness behind it is going to sow extremely bitter fruit for our troops who have to fight a real battle in the future in units crippled in order to meet a politically correct expediency.
I’m ready, and not wanting to see yet still waiting, to see some of these so-called ‘American princesses’, and you know what exactly i mean, have their butts, and whatever else handed to them, or worse by an enemy combatant.
You cannot use the image of israeli women soldiers as a reason for American women combatants. We are fighting for our very existence, with the opposing force on every border, wishing our ultimate destruction and disappearance as a people, as they are, in Israel.
We have become a nation of spoiled, illiterate brats.
(rlmorel, thanks noted and received, welcome!)
You are most welcome, TLS.
Every time the subject comes up, someone mentions how advanced the Israeli army is, and how Soviets used women for snipers, and so on.
You are correct. The Israelis do not use their females as combat troops, all the pretty pictures not withstanding, and if the Nazis were knocking at our front doors the way they were with the Soviets, I would expect women to fight back with everything they had, including sniper rifles and combat units.
But as you accurately state...we aren’t in those positions.
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