Diversity is our Strength...until the first shot is fired in anger

US Defense Watch ^ | August 18, 2024 | Ray Starmann

[Glad2bnuts]

My 40 year old daughter, has been going through a divorce...18 months ago. Her ex is a total POS. He is about 6 2 300 lbs of intimidating flab. She can’t do a thing. She married about 16 months ago to a man. He is about 5 8, 170lbs. He is recuperated from Cancer until he went back to work a month ago. The big fat ex came over and my SIL backed him down, promised him a whoopin’. Big guy calls the cops, wants his son brought out to him. Cops show up, SIL stands them down with the facts, and he is NOT taking his son. He seriously wants to take this guy to the street and curb stomp him, but...there is a family to take care of. As much as his wife could handle him when he cared, she would be killed if she got in his way.

Men are men, and women need to know their place. It is NOT in combat arms, the police squad cars, or as firefighters. They CANNOT HANDLE THE LOAD.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Putting women in combat (like putting them on a police force) is paying full price for a 50% capable soldier. In war it is done as a desperate attempt to stave off defeat. Even with all men we haven’t won a war since WWII. If we can’t get enough men to fill the ranks, we should institute a lottery of males to fill the gap, not using women.

[ansel12]

“””paying full price for a 50% capable soldier”””

Nicely said.

[Chainmail]

To be effective, a combat unit needs to be trained as a team under an experienced and trusted leader. Their leader has to be where the troops are, to face danger with them. Their leaders cannot show preferences - each soldier/Marine has to know that if they draw the short straw, it's just the luck of the draw - nobody is staying back because the CO has an attachment to someone else - or a grudge against you. If you are chosen to lead an assault over open ground, with a better-than-even chance that you won't get to the other side - you have to know that your being picked was fair.

As everyone knows, women on average are smaller and carry less in combat. They wear out earlier, they are emotionally more fragile than men and will suffer long-term psychological damage, if they survive.

But the worst effect on a combat team's cohesion and morale will combining young men and young women together. They will form couples (or worse) and their allegiance/attachments will be to their partners not to the unit. Worse, sexual attraction is almost never linear: PFC A will want Corporal B - but Corporal B wants Sgt C, and so on. Then you'll have the rest of the unit without a partner and resentment will be augmented with rifles.

The question is: do we want to win wars or just earn spots in combat infantry units, just because you think you might like it (Trust me - you won't).

In my outfit, Echo Company 2/1 in Vietnam, everybody got hit, some as many as three times. It was damn dangerous. Infantry combat is to kill the enemy, or be killed while trying to kill the enemy. It seems that our leadership has forgotten that fact.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

A woman who is trained to fight can probably kick my butt, even if I outweigh her. But then I’m old, fat and soft. The best trained woman fighter in the world has no chance against equivalently trained males. Not misogynistic, just a fact.

[Uncle Miltie]

Topped up my pmags.