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To: daniel1212

While I understand your reasoning, I disagree with your conclusion.

Not only should women continue to be allowed to serve, they should also be required to register for the draft.

Women should, however, be banned from all COMBAT ROLES, including serving on Navy warships and submarines, and flying combat aircraft.

As an Air Force veteran who served alongside women, there are many roles that women can fill, including the electronics repair shop job that I performed.

Women can wield a soldering irin just as well as a man, which results in freeing A MAN to fill a frontline combat role.


20 posted on 09/23/2023 1:41:31 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo

Women used to be restricted to 2% of the military, that allowed for Nurses, Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants in finance and such.

People forget that even daily non-combat work is not suited for females, digging entrenchments and fox holes, handling heavy things, replacing tracks and even truck tires, handling large cooking pots holding many gallons of food at more than 8 pounds per gallon, watch the females trying to handle and use those 50 pound Jerry cans of water or fuel, the list is endless. Either they can’t do it, or they need help, but even if it gets done, it is slower, more laborious, ties up more personnel, time and resources, now magnify that effect throughout the mass military, it is a diminishing of effectiveness and a reduction of per capita strength, suddenly “a fully manned crew of 220” doesn’t really mean exactly that, it means “a 220 count of people” with overall reduced capabilities.

We see all this in civilian life, sports, construction, the separation of duties and capabilities is so natural that we don’t even notice it, but we live by it, the military consists of all this, except much worse, it is rugged, outdoor living where everything is heavy and hard and requires muscles, and on the bad days, you have 6 foot Soviet paratroopers landing on your rear echelon troops ripping their throats out with their bare hands.


26 posted on 09/23/2023 1:53:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Yo-Yo
While I understand your reasoning, I disagree with your conclusion.

If you think the author's and my conclusion is that women should be barred from the military then you did not read the linked article, while reading more into my comments. As female nurses, secretaries and other in certain non-combat positions exampled in WW2, there is a place for women in military, but not in combat, nor in leadership over men. And not in diverting them from being the married mother of children, which is their normative God-ordained function, and are uniquely suited for.

47 posted on 09/23/2023 3:04:20 PM PDT by daniel1212 (As a damned+destitute sinner turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves souls on His acct + b baptized 2 obey H)
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