Posted on 04/02/2014 4:07:39 PM PDT by TheProducer
The Freedom Report podcast today takes on the issue of female marine officer candidates who can't pass the physical requirements to serve in combat roles. Although 3 enlisted female marines have reportedly passed the less rigorous infantry training course, no women have been able to make it through the stricter infantry officer course.
In a piece for the Washington Post, Second Lt. Sage Santangelo argues that the reason that female officers are not passing the test is because they are not being trained to the same standards as men. She believes that women are more than capable of doing the pullups required if the initial training programs were made to suit their biological difference in upper body strength. Santangelo claims to be able to do 16 pullups.
Female warriors have a long and fierce history in combat throughout history. One woman by the name of Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester won the Silver Star by leading a counterattack that killed 27 insurgents, three of them with her own rifle. And in the Israeli military in 2007, one woman saved the life of a fellow soldier by crafting a tourniquet out of her bra.
So should women be serving in combat? And should we be holding men and women to different standards?
All that and more on the Freedom Report podcast!
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No.
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70 years ago nearly 10% of the population of this country (mostly men) was in uniform. We were "scraping the bottom of the barrel", accepting men with bad eyes, bad ears, bad feet, and other conditions that were disqualifying a couple of years earlier.
Even in those conditions, we didn't send women to fight.
Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends the non-shaving boys and the cane-borne old men deserves to be destroyed.
...and then you get to the ability test to do real damage control...
The difference being that the Cuomo and Romney boys don’t want to serve, nor do the Sununu kids. Where did Rand Paul serve? Cruz? Ryan? One thing that can be said for McCain/Palin, is that they both brought up young MEN who were not afraid to go into front line units. None of this JAG nonsense so popular now with the Pataki/George P. Bush/Biden/Laxalt.
Excellent summation.
I think there are probably as many women capable of fighting as there are men incapable.
If the process for getting there is done without respect to genitalia, the answer should be self evident.
Combat load including weapon and ammo is still about 100 lbs I’m 67 now and couldn’t do what I did at 22 neither can women. The physical demands are too high
I am 76. Give me six months of training and I could kill most women with my bare hands. Imagine what a twenty year old Ivan or a twenty year old Won Chan could do. Each soldier is part of a team and when one dies or is put out of commission the survivors are placed at higher risk. Along with Sodomites women in combat is a disaster of the first magnitude. Who is going to want to serve in such a military, one that does not represent our finest, but our most degenerate and weakest. God Help Us!
No.
In an emergency when all hands are needed, well all right pick up a weapon and start shooting, but as line troops no.
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