Posted on 07/27/2017 7:22:49 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
They enter service wounded already and take about a week to stop the bleeding.
If they are wounded again in battle, how will their original wound affect their ability to perform...?
Wow, who would have ever thought that man and women are different physically?
Would future enemies treat captured American civilian women different knowing that they could eventually face them on the battlefield?
Combat units must be focused on the mission and their individual part in it. Combat troops have to know going in that their primary job is killing the enemy while keeping the soldier/Marine to his right and left alive, if possible. Combat troops will only function successfully if they are sure that everyone shares the risks equally and that there is no bias in critical decisions.
Distractions get people killed and are not worth marginal worth of making interest groups happy.
No. The odds of them encountering the same woman on a battlefield are so miniscule as to be non-existent.
>>M]ales have 40% greater aerobic capacity, and higher endurance compared with females. Women’s smaller hearts require more blood to be pumped each minute at a given level of exertion because they have less hemoglobin in their blood to carry oxygen.
These differences will put women at a distinct disadvantage in newly opened infantry jobs,<<
We just have to tell our enemies not to be so damned sexist in how they fight us.
I mean, sheesh!
They certainly do. But you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs!
Does that mean they must integrate low power rounds into their machine gun ammunition belt?
During WWII, the Soviets thought women combat soldiers were a good idea.
That lasted about two weeks.
What? You mean there really are differences between men and women’s bodies? Who knew?
But they can serve honorably and ably in other roles.
Here is a woman that served very honorably and rose to Admiral...This brilliant woman was wonderful!!!! A true role-model for young women who yearn to serve this great nation.
She created the first high-level language compiler..COBOL. It was an amazing feat..she had the RIGHT STUFF!
Maybe, just maybe, we as a society can have a discussion, about how the military is different in many ways from civilian life.
Which would mean, among other things, that laws and policies in civilian life to ensure equal opportunity for women, are not always appropriate in the military.
Liberals are caterwauling about Trump’s ban on transgenders in the military. They do so from what I think is a false premise, that the military should conform to how civilian life treats such people.
WE should have the meanest toughest fighting force needed to defend our country. And if that means transsexuals or women or other groups can’t serve or can’t serve in certain positions, tough blank. Go bitch about it on MSNBC. The military is not the civilian world.
Your post reminds me, of how girls on navy ships have become pregnant. I think we all know what has to happen for a pregnancy to occur. Which begs many questions about the military and the missions, and the wisdom of mixing the sexes together.
BTW: Dr Ruth Westheimer was an Israeli army sniper.
Here is a beautiful Russian sniper from WW2. she has a Mosin Nagant rifle with original scope.. A dear friend of mine gave me one of these rifles...wish I had an original scope for it :-/
That’s a bit different than serving on the front lines with other troops.
Is anyone really named Jazz?
Try forty-two days in the bush. A shower was clean fatigues every third resupply, maybe.
Everyone came off of that with rashes, boils and other skin problems. Get dusted off for a boil? Not likely.
I can’t imagine a woman physically standing up to that wear and tear.
But every war is different and maybe these sorts of conditions won’t be encountered in the future.
Your thinking in these matters is, IMO, flawless!
I have absolutely no problem with women or trans people serving...just not in certain roles.
The military is, as Rush says, “To kill people and break things” Anything that makes them less effective in that role is to be AVOIDED!
It is VERY different, it requires no great physical strength and that makes it a good fit for a few very brave women.
That said, I DO NOT want women to be snipers in the US military...it was done in WW2 out of necessity... I wish those women did not have to go through that :-(
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