The comunists, when they tke power, always act to defang and emasculate the military while building a parallel praetorian military under their own firm control. Our parallel military is being built up in TSA and FEMA. It will actually wind up being several separate armies in order to balance each other. Communists always fear those who have the guns, even each other.
With regard to the article-YEP! Disaster in the making.
The Obama White House is filled with MF’ers who have never served anything .
Any officer who says a woman can be trained and put into Combat with men should be relieved of duty. He is a fool.
Amen. If a woman could go through Ranger Training or Special Forces Training successfully without changing any of the standards, I would think someone should give her /him some gender/drug tests to determine how it happened. I for one do not believe it can happen without lowering the standards. I guess that makes me a “sexist”. So be it!
“If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high?”
Missing the point. The point is to give females preference in the promotion process.
I think that women should be in the Infantry. I think that women should be drafted and put into the Infantry until our Infantry resembles our population. Then, we should take on every other country in the world. Keep drafting females to replace their dead and maimed sisters. Women have desired all the benefits of citizenship without enjoying the benefits of being in the Infantry. Remember Pat Schroeder? Remember her condescending mug on TV railing against the military? Wouldn’t you have liked to see her leading an assault against a fortified position? I would have. Nope....give them what they ask for. Mandate women in the Infantry. You want to see increases in the Defense budget? Draft women into the Infantry. Let them defend a position with one roll of concertina wire. Let them take a bayonet in the guts.
The Israelis tried female combat units. I think it was the 1956 war when the Arabs captured a position held by Israeli female paratroopers. That put an end to female Infantry in the Israeli Army.
When there's an endemic problem such as the state of our military, you have to seek out the root cause of the problem:
The (so called) "Commander in Chief".
My son just graduated Friday and is now a new Devildog with 338 other Marines. Don’t worry America they have our back.
The pretense that the sexes are interchangeable, functionally, is ludicrous on its face. But it is cut from the same egalitarian compulsion that forces those in its grips to rationalize other aberrations in the Leftist war on reality. It is the same compulsion that is behind every Leftist movement from the Jacobins, through the Marxists, Bolsheviks, Nazis and the people who find the antics of Obama, Pelosi & Reid, acceptable.
For specific analysis of the Feminist Absurdity Feminist Delusion?.
To put all varieties of collectivist/egalitarianism into context Compassion Or Compulsion.
No one--absolutely no one--but scoundrels & demagogues, benefits from the make-believe world of human interchangeability. It prevents both men & women from realizing their full potential by developing the qualities in each that are unique. It has precisely the same deleterious effect on people of every race, culture, nation, community, class, what have you.
Only an idiot would aspire to a world where no one stands out; where no one fully develops unique qualities; but that is the world the crack-pot neurotics are trying to construct for us.
The Colonel should be commended for standing into the breach.
William Flax
This fetishistic obsession to place women into combat roles makes me marvel as to how the USMC ever managed that 80 mile withdrawal from Hagaru-Ri at the Chosin Resovoir to the port of Hungnam without women infantry.
NONE OF THIS is necessary and NONE OF IT will enhance the ability of the armed forces to fight. This issue is being impelled by radical feminist activist politics and cultural marxism. Now we are being told that women are MORE suitable for recruitment for the armed forces than men. This is the sort of propoganda that those in the cultural marxist homosexual activist movement employ when they imply that homosexual couples are more suitable to raise children than heterosexuals. Anything to achieve their objective of “fundamentally changing” important societal institutions.
This notion of placing women into combat roles is just so easy to refute. Many of you may have heard of a little dustup called World War II. At the peak of United States involvement in that war there were 12 ½ million personnel in uniform, many of them women. Over 400,000 personnel were killed in the line of duty, against the toughest battlefield enemies this country has ever had to face, ones that were capable of and often did inflict shattering BATTLEFIELD defeats upon our sea, land and air forces. Despite this no one saw any need to place women into combat roles that had the responsibility to directly close with, engage, and destroy the enemy..
Today with a much smaller and almost hand picked elite Armed Forces, and a population base that is more than twice as large as that during World War II, there is even less need for it now than then.
This entire idiocy is being propelled by the demand for selfish feminists to qualify for chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nothing more and nothing less than that.
This lunacy WILL weaken the ability of the Armed Forces to fight, just consider the logistical strain that it will place on the Armed Forces for separate housing and the like. The evidence of the disparity in physical suitabilities for combat MOS’s as reinforced by study after study is simply overwhelming. The effort that will be necessary to obtain a relative few qualified women will not result in anything remotely resembling any accepted model of effeciency, but since that is NOT the object any way, why worry about that? This is merely another sop to the perverted Cultural Marxist notion of fairness and equality and another step on the road of “fundamental transformation” of the vital institutions of this nation.
So where are all the men?