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.
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.
“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?
Can you deliver in these field uniforms?
“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.
And once again I post here, Mattis has not lifted a finger to roll back any of these lunatic ideas. On the contrary, he tried to countermand Trump’s no more cross dressers order. I would add one more question to the writer’s questions: If unisex is so good for the military, why isnt anyone preaching it for professional sports, the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc? The answer? Because leftists do not want to destroy professional sports. Fire Mattis today and clean up the Dod cesspool! (US Army Officer, Retired)
Was the baby called up? The unborn child did not volunteer. Has a right to expect a safe gestation out of harms way.
“It takes a village” to make an infantry unit.
