BS Meter on high level.
Women officers in combat zones? Likely to be either overly rigid, or wildly erratic.
Just my opinion as a lifelong civilian.
Women are biologically, genetically, socially and culturally not programmed to be leaders and even more so not programmed to lead men in battle.
"Get me a cuppa coffee, will ya babe?"
(I know...that was bad.)
My son recently finished boot camp and combat training in the Marines, and he said along with others I spoke to the women are treated very differently and the women do not get the exact same workouts as the men do.
“...who took the challenge.”
First tip off of article BS.
Bull squat! Lord, I cannot imagine being assigned to a platoon and meeting my PL, and it’s a woman! I think I would laugh. Course my butt would be in a sling for a bit. Or having a new PL assigned and it’s a woman. Again, I would laugh, and this will do nothing but damage morale.
If women can meet the standards, then the standards are too low.
I claim BS too, unless they lowered the standards, can a woman carry incapacitated man out of of firefight? Give me a break. And if captured? we have to worry about rape and such adding more risk.
I have no problem with women serving in combat units BUT if they cannot pass the same physical tests as men to do so then they shouldn’t be there. Some women (very few) will be able to do so, most won’t.
How many men will they get killed?
My military days are very far back in my review mirror, but if I were active military in a combat unit under the leadership of a female officer, I am not certain I could serve without severe reservations.
“Many of the female officers will now move on to challenges that include Ranger school and Airborne school.”
Good luck with that. Airborne, maybe. Ranger School, I doubt it. The physical requirements are not suited for a woman’s body. They do not possess the upper body strength required for the job and cannot possess it based upon their body makeup and DNA. I assisted in training rangers for physical apptitude from 2001 till 2012 in my facilities.
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The ladies humped a forty-pound ruck ten miles?
I don’t think so.
I smell BS.
“Many of the female officers will now move on to challenges that include Ranger school and Airborne school.”
This is a joke and an insult to our troops.
feh,,,This is BS. I graduated Infantry School in 91. We had to do ten pullups just to go into the DFAC.
25 mile forced road march, full pack, full ammo load. WTF is going on?
I guess there was no pugil sticks between males and females, no ground fighting, no rifle PT.
This sickens me...