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Women get chance to 'one-up' the men in mixed infantry units
AP via ABC News ^ | Nov 26, 2017, 8:20 AM ET | Lolita C. Baldor

Posted on 11/26/2017 7:30:30 AM PST by Olog-hai

The young Army infantry recruits lined up in full combat gear, guns at the ready. At the signal, a soldier in front kicked in the door and they burst into the room, swiveling to check around the walls for threats. “You’re dead!” one would-be enemy yelled out from a dark corner, the voice slightly higher than the others echoing through the building. It was 18-year-old Kirsten, training to become one of the Army’s first women serving as infantry soldiers.

“I want to be one of the females to prove to everybody else that just because you’re a female, doesn’t mean you can’t do the same things as a male,” she said, describing her brother — an infantry soldier — as motivation. “I also wanted to one-up him.”

Kirsten is among more than 80 women who have gone to recruit training at Fort Benning, Georgia, since a ban on them serving in combat jobs was lifted. Twenty-two have graduated. More than 30 were still in training late last month, working toward graduation. […]

The Army’s introduction of women into the infantry has moved steadily but cautiously this year. As home to the previously all-male infantry and armor schools, Fort Benning had to make $35 million in renovations, including female dorm rooms, security cameras, and monitoring stations. …

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: fortbenning; mixedinfantry; obama; obamalegacy; usarmy; womenincombat
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1 posted on 11/26/2017 7:30:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Saw the lede.
Then took my guess as to the source to check.
Bingo.
Ergo, no need to even read the article.
What a time saver.


2 posted on 11/26/2017 7:33:39 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai
“I want to be one of the females to prove to everybody else that just because you’re a female, doesn’t mean you can’t do the same things as a male,” she said, describing her brother — an infantry soldier — as motivation. “I also wanted to one-up him.”

Going to war isn't about one-upping the next guy. Go on patrol all day with a 100 pound ruck in 110 degree weather day after day and get back to us. I'll bet she doesn't make it two hours on patrol before the guys are going to have to carry her load.

3 posted on 11/26/2017 7:34:35 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Olog-hai
"because you’re a female, doesn’t mean you can’t do the same things as a male,”

I'd like to see her stand on the edge of the bath tub and pee in the toilet like I can do.

4 posted on 11/26/2017 7:38:03 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Olog-hai
“I want to be one of the females to prove to everybody else that just because you’re a female, doesn’t mean you can’t do the same things as a male,” she said, describing her brother — an infantry soldier — as motivation. “I also wanted to one-up him.”

I would not want to serve with or anywhere near this individual. With her, it's about "ME ME ME", not about the mission or the unit. She's trouble. Showoffs (and that's what she is) get themselves killed ... which is bad enough. They get other people killed, too. That's unacceptable.

5 posted on 11/26/2017 7:38:13 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Olog-hai

A total embarrassment of a once great Army. Can anyone imagine her rooting Japs out of caves on Okinawa?


6 posted on 11/26/2017 7:39:53 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we)
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To: Olog-hai
I want to be one of the females to prove to everybody else that just because you’re a female, doesn’t mean you can’t do the same things as a male

I can prove the opposite from where I'm sitting.

This isn't an academic exercise and when she screws up due to decision making or lack of strength I'm guessing she won't take the blame.

7 posted on 11/26/2017 7:40:50 AM PST by relictele
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To: AlaskaErik

An infantry soldier is a heavily armed pack mule.

8 posted on 11/26/2017 7:42:53 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Vigilanteman
yup, as Clint Eastwood suggested as the character Harry Callahan in a Dirty Harry movie: “What do you think this is some kind of encounter group?” The character was pointing out there as some things we are all “not equal at”.

Watching an episode of Live PD the other night, three coppers were faced with a guy who had to be about 6'6’’ or better. Fortunately he was of good spirits and did not put up a fight because the two male coppers were about a half foot shorter and a good deal lighter than he was. The female officer, was at best about 5'5’’ and standing behind one of the male guys at least a feet shorter and 100 lb lighter. IMO, and I have been in my tussles over my life span, she would have had no chance short of using a shot gun to take this guy down had he been belligerent.

9 posted on 11/26/2017 7:46:57 AM PST by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ass. Press living up to its name.


10 posted on 11/26/2017 7:49:32 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: Olog-hai

Eventually a large enough number of women will be killed and maimed and this pc experiment will be closed. It will end sooner if women are compelled to register for selective service and the combat arms become a requirement and not a “career option” for women.


11 posted on 11/26/2017 7:53:31 AM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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“More than 36 percent of Benning’s women have left — about twice the rate of men. Injuries have sidelined other women who plan to restart the training...While male recruits often get ankle sprains and dislocated shoulders, women are prone to stress fractures in their hips.

Half of the women, Kendrick said, weigh less than 120 pounds (54 kilograms), but all the recruits carry the same 68 pounds (31 kilograms) of gear.”

Now....just how many days, months and years will someone weighing less than 120 lbs stand up to carrying 70 lbs AND MORE regularly? Particularly when WEEKS of training is already causing double the injuries.


12 posted on 11/26/2017 7:57:11 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Mouton

She would have had an easy time of it. In the movies.


13 posted on 11/26/2017 7:59:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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“Now....just how many days, months and years will someone weighing less than 120 lbs stand up to carrying 70 lbs AND MORE regularly? ”

I weighed 145 pounds at the end of my training at MCRD in San Diego and it was solid muscle. I actually gained almost 20 pounds in 11 weeks. Double rations and vigorous strength training did it. Then I hit AIT and carried a 65 pound ruck almost constantly.

Even in peak physical condition it was difficult.

L


14 posted on 11/26/2017 8:01:26 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: NorthMountain

Males inherent instincts are to protect females...In a combat situation, the attention of the male could be distracted from the objective because of this and endanger not only his life, but that of his teammates...


15 posted on 11/26/2017 8:02:22 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

“I also wanted to one-up him.”

Have a baby. That’ll show him.


16 posted on 11/26/2017 8:09:55 AM PST by moovova
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, so men and women are not identical! But I thought they were the same-just different gender assignments! Why are different facilities needed? How can there be “one up” if there are no sexes?

It’s all very confusing, listening to liberals-they are full of contradictions!


17 posted on 11/26/2017 8:17:47 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: Olog-hai

Is Kersten meeting the same height, weight & physical fitness standards?


18 posted on 11/26/2017 8:24:33 AM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Mouton
OTOH, there are jobs in the military which women can potentially excel at doing. I had a high school classmate who became a cracker jack tank mechanic.

She grew up as a farm girl (no brothers) repairing farm machinery because her Dad was large and not very dexterious with his hands. Her appitude, background and small size made her perfect for the job. But she was more interested in just doing her job than in 'one-upping' the men in her unit.

Princess Elizabeth (before she became Queen) had a similar experience during World War II, albeit from an entirely different background. There is a famous story about the Land Rover that she and Prince Phillip were driving around in breaking down somewhere in the Scotland Highlands sometime in the 1960s and she crawls under it and fixes the problem while her husband simply handed her the tools.

19 posted on 11/26/2017 8:25:14 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Mr Rogers

The injury rates and related subsequent costs to the VA for treating female military members is considerably higher then for men.


20 posted on 11/26/2017 8:27:06 AM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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