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You can go on youtube and find many instances of women saying they’re just as strong as men and can hold their own against them. Some are stupid enough to try to take on men with enlightened results to them.
Something that almost everybody thinks is that females are adding to the military as in the more the merrier, who wouldn’t want more people alongside the existing forces?
The real fact is that women aren’t in addition to the existing military but are a one for one replacement of a man, when you see a female GI, know that she is taking the place of a man that should be in uniform.
Eventually it isn’t just about the physical and the costs, it is about the culture and the mentality of a female organization versus an all male mentality built on fighting and killing and destroying and being rough and ready like the warrior class wants to be.
Kudos to Ray Starrman for a well written , accurate article.
Scathing read.
The tone is a bit histrionic - but the author isn’t wrong. Combat is no place for women - or deviants. The last thing anyone needs in battle are distraction.
Ha, that was a good read. I thought it was Kurt Schlichter!
Nail, meet hammer.
I don’t think women should be in combat roles as a first choice. It should be avoided at all costs, and should be a literal last resort - like relying on the civilian populace for defense. I’m here if I’m needed, but I hope it never comes to that.
Women receiving the training is one thing, and I think we should. I think we should to the best of their ability, however, we are not a replacement for men in the field. We should be support only, off of the front lines, unless (for some ungodly reason) men cannot fight and reinforcements are out of reach. I don’t know how likely of a scenario that is, but based on our current military leadership, I can’t say I’m confident in... Well... Anything.
I, admittedly, wanted to enlist when I was an older teen, almost in my twenties. My health kept me out (unrelated to my sex), but I do think we can serve a purpose in our armed forces - just not in frontline combat.
Diversity and Conquer
This is not about women, it’s about the relaxation of standards needed to accommodate your average woman in combat specialties
There is simply no way virtually any women can make it at the elite level of training.
Frankly, if you catch a veteran Navy Seal in a candid moment most will admit that even they could not make it through BUDS because of injuries sustained while in service. They would never quit but they would be withdrawn for medical
Women can serve in many areas.l
No problem giving women a shot but no woman could pass hard core training standards like Ranger School or BUDS .
An excellent article. Thanks.
The of Tragedy Social Engineering Combat
Obama’s defense department announcement on December 3, 2015 meant regimental combat teams and special forces units became bureaucratic toys for those imagining equal opportunity and affirmative action could coexist with warriors enduring the brutality imperative for victory.
Combat operations require the most severe restrictions on human emotions and behaviors to foster the uniquely understood high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion. Human sexual diversity of any variety cannot intrude into this authoritarian meritocracy where only those displaying the greatest savagely can win.
At the point of collision, our troops face situations requiring exceptional physical capabilities and unbelievably sacrificial, primitive, and intimate relations. They continuously face extraordinary stress punctuated by killing other humans within inherently chaotic and brittle environments.
Of special consideration should be an understanding national defense through personal combat becomes the ultimate Olympics. Therefore, much less excuse obtains for merging men with women into this hideous ordeal than exists for combining the athletic competitions every four years. Certainly, the controversy over transgender females competing in women’s Olympics makes that point obvious.
Institutional memories no longer exist for fighting ferocious, shrewd enemies such as Germans, Japanese, Chinese, and North Vietnamese, who utilized a full array of modern weapons. As this tragedy unfolds remember the quote that, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”.
If a truly global war breaks out where combatants attempt to breach our borders I fear it will fall in us old veterans, no matter our health to step up and defend our way of life. The armed forces will be useless, except for very limited engagements by the Marines and some more elite army units. The last ship I was in in the mid 80’s had a mixed crew. It was amazing to me the number of girls who in purpose got pregnant to avoid a med deployment. They were subsequently assigned state side to take the job if some poor guy. There were a few who were fierce warrior type but could count them in one hand. It will take generations to fix this issue.
Bttt.
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When sexual assaults occur in the military, proper training probably has not been provided.
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.
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.
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