Posted on 08/27/2005 4:00:37 AM PDT by joeclarke
United States Must Make Military More Accommodating For Women
According to the newest military reports, women are not treated like men in the military. Well, like duhhhhhh!
Defense Dept. Surveys Academy Sex Assaults
1 Woman in 7 Reports Being Attacked
"One female student in seven attending the nation's military academies last spring said she had been sexually assaulted since becoming a cadet or midshipman, according to a report on the first survey of sexual misconduct on the three campuses released yesterday by the Defense Department.
More than half the women studying at the Naval, Air Force and Army academies reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment on campus, according to survey responses. But few of those incidents, and only a third of the assaults, were reported to authorities. A new confidentiality policy for assault victims, also released yesterday, attempts to improve reporting of sex crimes on military campuses.
Officials at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis say the climate on campus may be improving. (The Washington Post) More at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48335-2005Mar18.html"
How much proof do we need that the new, social-engineered coed military is not good for morale, or efficient? Feminists and Democrats have done everything possible to corrupt the military by forcing men and women to coexist in the Armed Forces during such extraordinary circumstances - like warfare. BTW Sharing foxholes with foxes leads to "christening."
I understand that affirmative action has forced women into all sorts of civil service positions where they are not qualified (every minority has been given this boost, for good or bad) but why must our mainline of defense - the Department Of Defense - be subject to this ridiculous concept?
Read about the mythic Amazons getting whupped by the Greeks mythic Amazons getting whupped by the Greeks
More on women warriors at http://www.gendergap.com/military/Warriors-1.htm
And, let's not forget Joan Of Arc, the French warriorette who was eventually burned at the stake by her fellow French http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/joan.html
I do honor women now serving in hostile areas of Iraq, but next time let's let the men serve without the distraction of having women posted in the forward, most hostile postions. Last night I saw an interview on the Discovery Channel with a very youngish girl B-2 Bomber pilot who must have said five times that piloting a B-2 was "really cool."
No thanks to you Patsy Schroeder , one of the Mothers of this PC military boondoggle. Here's a good one on the phoney, trumped-up Tailhook Non-Scandal which started it all. I guess, we just need more Cindy Sheehans, Jane Fondas and Babs Streisands as Generals.
Sorry, I am just Old Corps.
One in seven? A first response is "baloney". What in the world constitutes sexual assault here?
pink bullets
Socrates said it well when he stated that "when you made a man and a woman do the same things you only ended up with a second rate man." These idiots just don't get it. The purpose of the military is to win wars and threaten our enemies. There is no question that women are not at the level as men in combat usage. When the h%ll are we as a society going to realize that and stop this fool's experiment?
There is something wrong with men who send their daughters to war.
I'm sure there are many women who want to serve their country, but I also want to play in the NBA and no one is going to legislate me in. Can't these ladies realize that service can come in many forms and doesn't require putting themselved in harm's way?
Having lived through the entire debate on women in combat from the first words out of the woman's movement leaders mouths about how there is no difference between men and women. Then seeing that the leaders (sic) of our military were willing to cave into sending women into combat areas and harms way. I can only say that it is a sad day when we suck up to those woman's movement liberals, whose real intent is to defeat the capacity of the american military.
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