Posted on 04/03/2018 9:49:35 AM PDT by pboyington
The Army had maternity BDUs since at least the early 90s. Let that sink in: Maternity Battle Dress Uniform.
I’m not sure this is a hill to die on unless women aboard Naval vessels, fighter/bomber jets and/or battalions will be wearing them.
With women often working far past when they start showing, I can see the appropriate Lt. Harriet Sims-type characters wearing the uniforms.
Ah, gee. Oh well.
There should be job (MOS or Unit) based standards. The three physical fitness standards should be:
Combat (Infantry, Artillery, Armor, & Special Forces)
Combat Support (Engineer, Intelligence, MP, etc)
Support (Logistics, clerical etc)
Should it get to the point that we have to send prego women into combat God help us all.
When I was in Afghanistan, it could not be overstated that the Polish sent professional soldiers that looked the part, and the Army (here’s looking at you 1st Cav), sent what looked like a jobs program with females slinging rifles that were too long for them. It looked stupid.
“Above The Breast”
(New motto of Army Aviation)
“The Marines recently chucked a grueling physical endurance test they had been using at the Marine Corps’ Officer Basic Course for 50 years.”
True they dropped/modified the test at TBS. However, 50 years was 1968 and at that time we had a draft which included college boys who wanted to be officers. There was a quota for infantry officers (0302’s) and a lot of 2/Lt’s finishing The Basic School were assigned to that MOS even though it was not their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd choice. The casualty rate in Vietnam for all of TBS Class 6/67 was above 50%... For 0302’s it was higher that that even.
I suggest that when we get into another war that intense (or worse... think Okinawa which started 73 years ago this week - see ‘Hacksaw Ridge’) there will be lots of women who do what women are doing today to avoid deploying... get pregnant and be allowed to skate because it is not PC to take exception to such actions.
Another question for the female warrior lead .. uhm ... sold ...uhm ... in uniform: Are their separate body bags for His/ Hers/ Its, and do they come in matching colors?
Yes and when they get pregnant and drop and that unit drops 10% it ceases to be combat effective.
We can play these games. It is an expensive form of welfare. It is an expensive fantasy playground for leftist, and increasingly, middle of the road fuzzy thinkers.
I don’t want to pay the bill. Not now in dollars and not later in blood.
There should be zero women in the military except in support roles far away from combat.
Oh - and as I have stated from the beginning: Mattis is an idiot who talks a great line and understands nothing.
Can you deliver in these field uniforms?
And under Combat - Armored Cavalry!
In memory of a shipmate who other MEN avoiding looking at while showering I ask:
Hey, ladies, how many wounded and burnt shipmates could YOU carry up 3 burning decks to safety and aid, all the while YOU yourself was afire?
The same question could be asked regarding ground combat casualties. How many wounded could YOU.....
One of my enduring recollections of media coverage during the first Gulf War was during Desert Shield when CBS was doing all it could to reduce public support for the effort (remember, stories of orders for 100,000 bodybags, our equipment can’t work in the desert, etc.)
CBS found a series of young female enlisted to interview. Each one complained about the negative impact of overseas deployment on their parental duties. None were pregnant, they just didn’t understand that their terms of enlistment didn’t guarantee garrison duty stateside. No male EMs were included in the story.
“Bravo for the Swedes – they faded out as a group of bad ass killers in about 1100 A.D. with the advent of Christianity in Scandinavia.”
The author needs to brush up on his history. Sweden was a major European power as late as the early 18th century.
Trump and Mattis have refused to lift a single finger to so much as slow down Obama’s policies to destroy the military.
DOD has been caving to PC congressional funding pressure for decades.
If you want an effective Military you must elect congressional representation that supports AMERICA.
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