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Female veteran says Pete Hegseth is RIGHT about women in the military
Blaze media ^ | 1/16/2025 | Blazetv staff

Posted on 01/19/2025 7:25:31 AM PST by MagillaX

Air Force veteran Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) knows a thing or two about women in the military — and now she’s clearing up one of the Democrats' biggest lies about Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, during his confirmation hearing.

“Pete never said that he didn't want women to serve in the military. In fact, it’s quite the opposite,” Luna tells Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program.” However, Luna believes that “there are certain roles that women should not be subjected to in the military.”

“I preface this by saying that when women were placed in harm’s way, that the natural instinct for men was to protect that woman. And that’s quote-unquote ‘toxic masculinity’ that the left tries to attack us with all the time,” Luna says.

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To: MagillaX

Some mistakes posters always make is
one= keeping women from combat is all that is needed, there is a huge list of everyday civilian jobs in which women are second rate to incapable of doing, and none of them are about combat, an army in the wild is physical for everyone.

two= if a rare woman can do the job let that woman or two in, except that any women changes the entire culture and even changes the supply system and medical needs, and will also get injured early from routine physical work and collect her pension the rest of her life (a problem that exists now).

three= that rear units exist, the rear areas not only need a lot of physical labor to put together, move, and then be put together again but they are also where the most juicy parts of the military is, the electronics, the intelligence, the medical support, ammo, food, supplies, the parts the attacker from any modern army most wants to kill and disrupt, the rear has to be able to fight, and besides, the rear is also part of the military culture, it can’t be feminine.

As we have seen, men do not want to offer up their lives for work that girls can do, and after 2 generations of women in the military we know for certain that females change the military culture into what it is today.

A military cannot be a fire breathing, bare chested warrior type organization constantly pushing itself to the limits of physical fitness and toughness, focus, and aggressiveness, when females are part of the mix.


21 posted on 01/19/2025 9:20:49 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MagillaX

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is so pretty. 😍

No women in combat, they don’t belong on Navy ships either.


22 posted on 01/19/2025 9:21:27 AM PST by OldHarbor
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To: 4Runner

Stop making arguments for the woke and left position. It makes you look really stupid.
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Heh, just what I was thinking. That would really be funny, civilian males hiding behind the skirts of a female defense force! Put the men in charge of the nurses station, the canteen, and the postal delivery!


23 posted on 01/19/2025 9:27:22 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: MinorityRepublican

I think when people say no females in the military they simply mean like it was prior to about 1972 when there was a 2% limit on females and they were all at the administrative parts of the military bases, working in finance, and law offices, as secretaries to generals, working as doctors and nurses at the hospital and such, GIs in field units rarely interacted with females and they had to go to the main post where the stores and theaters were to run into them.


24 posted on 01/19/2025 9:29:13 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
GIs in field units rarely interacted with females and they had to go to the main post where the stores and theaters were to run into them.

It should be like that again. If you're a GI, you're on a mission to serve your country.

25 posted on 01/19/2025 9:32:14 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: OldHarbor
No women in combat, they don’t belong on Navy ships either.

Agreed. Exception would be on the hospital ships.

26 posted on 01/19/2025 9:32:59 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: BobL

Having women in combat roles is NOT A PROBLEM as long as they are properly trained. Oh yeah, and as long as there’s never combat. . . .etc.
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Excellent comments from start to finish! No one with a lick of common sense would disagree with any point you’ve made.


27 posted on 01/19/2025 9:33:29 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: MagillaX

Let’s imagine this. Women in combat situations in the Mid East. They get separated from their unit and get captured by Islamic Soldiers. I wonder how they will be treated? I know. Let’s ask those women hostages just released by Hamas and ask them how they were treated.


28 posted on 01/19/2025 9:33:52 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican
That said, I believe that women can still serve in the military.

Oh gosh... absolutely!

Woman are indispensable. Combat is another animal, but the military could never function without women.

I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

29 posted on 01/19/2025 9:34:36 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: antidemoncrat

I think the female POW argument is the weakest of all the arguments, arguing degrees of torture and even rape when it comes to muslims doesn’t carry much weight nor is it very relevant to the more important arguments of replacing male soldiers with girls, and weakening the entire military training and schooling system, and field capabilities and requirements to even make that bizarre choice possible.


30 posted on 01/19/2025 9:41:26 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: larrytown
A good start would be to stop using the defamatory term ‘REMF’.

Hardly defamatory, though a misapplication of the term. REMF, as I use it, is to identify staff officers who should never be allowed near servicemembers in a leadership position. IOW, they're usually good staff officers who should stay in those roles.

I also refer them as "staff pukes", getting in the way of the mission by adding additional requirements to daily work. If you were in a line unit, you know what I'm talking about.

I was very sensitive to it when I was a Battalion S-4 (Supply Officer), after serving for 2+ years as a Platoon Leader, Motor Officer, and Executive Officer.

I was there in Germany when Carter force fed women into HAWK and Nike Hercules batteries, without upgrading the barracks to accommodate women. Male E5 & E6 soldiers were forced back to the barracks on-site, while female E-1s were allowed to live off base. Given the various alert level requirements at these isolated sites, those that lived in the barracks assumed a disproportionate share of the burden. Morale suffered as a result.

Inspections from higher HQ were usually conducted by staff pukes who did not understand the difficulties. I got into it with the Team Chief of a Nuclear Surety Inspect team on my last evaluation. My job was to bring a 40 man platoon as an augmentation force, should the battery be attacked by terrorists.

It was my sixth, and final, evaluation, I knew our role and what to expect. I had 4 hours to equip and train my soldiers, to include issuing live ammunition. At least two hours were spent on small unit infantry tactics: my soldiers were ADA, not infantry.

We arrived 30 minutes before our deadline, so I was feeling pretty good. Well, the Team Chief, an LTC, got all over me about how long it took me to get there. I was respectful, but spelled out for him the extra training I gave my soldiers, especially considering the fact they had been issued live ammunition.

At the outbriefing the next day, he spoke at length regarding the performance of my unit. Needless to say, I was livid at his mischaracterizations, especially with my Deputy CG in attendance.

It all ended well, though. The DCG located me in the audience, and said, "LT NHN, I will take that hit for you. Anytime you want to give your soldiers extra training, you have my express permission." So ended one of the best days of my undistinguished military career...lol.

And yes, that Team Chief was a true REMF.

31 posted on 01/19/2025 9:44:17 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: MagillaX

“...would have equal opportunity to do the roles required for combat. We need to get the social engineering and the social justice warriors out of the military...

How about getting the right infomation out of congress. The military is almost equal in its selections of positions. Can a 100 pound woman be allowed to tryh for an army ranger position that requires being able to run a mile with a 90 pound ruck ahead of a firefight? Of course she can. Most don’t make it and are eliminated from the slot.

The 75th Ranger Regiment, also known as the Army Rangers, has an authorized strength of 3,623 personnel. This includes 3,566 military personnel and 57 civilian personnel. Of that 143 woman have graduated ranger school. 3%. Despite being introduced as a gender-neutral assessment, the ACFT prioritizes brute strength, lowering fitness standards for men and hindering the integration of women into combat roles.

wy69


32 posted on 01/19/2025 9:48:24 AM PST by whitney69
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To: datura

Anyone for women in combat should, at a minimum, read the opening paragraphs of James Webb’s essay in the 11/79 Washingtonian, “Women Can’t Fight.” It’s an eye opener.


33 posted on 01/19/2025 9:59:19 AM PST by DPMD
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To: MagillaX

The left would like to use the draft to centralize power and politicize the military further. And they would like to draft women.


34 posted on 01/19/2025 10:00:24 AM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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To: Bulwyf

Exactly.


35 posted on 01/19/2025 10:13:06 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: unlearner

Let’s not give in to their demands.


36 posted on 01/19/2025 10:14:04 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Night Hides Not

Nice story, but it’s still a derogatory term for a super specific type. Most people don’t get that, and generally use it (poorly) as they picked it up from some bitter vet relative, or bad VN war movie.


37 posted on 01/19/2025 10:21:08 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: AAABEST

One female pilot we had in Cold Lake nickname “pebbles”. She could not land an F-18. She was always running off into the grass. One day she gets leave and for some reason I won’t get into, they let her take the CO’s to Vancouver island when she went to see her parents. She does a few flybys on the tower etc then goes to land and puts it in the rhubarb. Test pilot had to come get it and fly back to Cold Lake, gear down over the rockies and all. That was the last straw. You can bet he was cursing her name the whole way back. Flying nose up, slow because you can’t exceed speeds rated for the gear. Long flight lol.


38 posted on 01/19/2025 10:30:48 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: DPMD

Anyone for women in combat should, at a minimum, read the opening paragraphs of James Webb’s essay in the 11/79 Washingtonian, “Women Can’t Fight.” It’s an eye opener.
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I’m hoping to read it if I can find it somewhere.


39 posted on 01/19/2025 10:40:33 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: whitney69

Of course she can. Most don’t make it and are eliminated from the slot.
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Then approval of it for any reason is a damn waste of time and money. GET REAL!


40 posted on 01/19/2025 10:45:27 AM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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