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How many deaths and excruciating injuries will result from this insanity? I hope you guys are correct that these are PFT requirements and not MOS specific.

I remember the first time I heard the term “women’s lib”. It was Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan in a brief interview during the radio news. They were trying to denigrate every achievement of my mother’s strong, devoted and intelligent life and what it stood for, and they were attacking the strong support and courageous nobility of my father and all fathers.

My thoughts went something like this: “...thousands of years of developing a powerful culture based on a firm Judeo-Christian family foundation, which works so beautifully, and now my time has come, and the Leftists are trying to destroy the value of my mentors’ achievements and the outcome of my dreams and future efforts? To hell with that!”

I was doing my homework and threw my book across the room. My parents came in, and I told them what I’d heard and that I could almost “see” what the future would hold if they had their way. “They”, I said, were trying to destroy the family. Of course, this wasn’t news to my Mom and Dad!

I was a young teen, and my eyes had been opening gradually to enemies within and without for awhile, but this was the first time I felt a personal attack from left field on my home base. Ever since that evening, I’ve despised and fought these “mother” hags and other leftists; fight what they are and who they represent; and what they have done and are doing to our country.

I know these women want to serve the USA, but they can do it in many other ways. Thousands of women in the military have served honorably and heroically, and many did so in WWII and Korea, decades before Steinem and Friedan mouthed-off that night. FReeper Joe 6-pack’s wonderful aunts are magnificent examples: military officers having served as nurses in combat zones during the above wars and including Vietnam.

These modern female soldiers in the article are smart enough to know what “leveling the playing field” can mean in the “field of battle”. They know, but maybe they are too prideful and busy trying to prove themselves in ways their indoctrinators in the school system would approve. Never mind that, in this pull-up requirement, they are failing miserably.

I don’t blame the indoctrinated and clueless generation as much as I blame their “mothers” and “fathers”, the socialist and communist mentors of our nation’s destruction.

Purely and simply, our bodies are different. If men place a chair or stool against a wall and bend over it with the flat (top) of their heads against the wall, they will not be able to lift the chair. Women can. It totally flummoxed my brothers. Once they realized why, they were glad they couldn’t do it!

Of course, the above example is trivial and has nothing whatsoever to do with differences in upper body strength. Although I might be wrong, I believe it has more to do with the shape and flexibility of a woman’s pelvis. A male and female are unlikely ever to be in such a silly position in war or peacetime, and it serves no useful porpose above being a party trick, or moving furniture in tight quarters. I offer it as just another example of anatomical differences. One sex cannot be the other and should not pretend they are.

As stated by many, if this is actually implemented into combat operations, it will lead to death and horrible injuries in battle and on rescue missions. One must also consider the trust factor and the blow to morale. I would worry more over the outcome of a battle if, every time, I knew I’d have to pull a sister soldier through it.

Thank you Steinem, Friedan, Fonda, Abzug, Chisholm, Greer, Brownmiller, Murray O’Hair, Angela Davis, and the remainder of you leftist hags for stewing the radical feminist pot, the gruel of which you continue to spoon feed your proteges in order to poison the country!

Thanks for letting me vent.