“We urge those who value the core values which our Armed Forces defend to contact their U.S. senators NOW and urge them to have removed any provision requiring females to register.”
You and I, playing the game for a big part of our lives, understand the thinking going into this and understand that a lot of people, male and female, are going to get cut and they will be either palace balance, allowed to, or forced to, cross over into another career field that might be open, or processed. I remember when they were really interested in closing bases and when they closed Mather, they had two lines after the initial walk in: One to agree with the choice they made for you to PCS, or the line that processed you out and you’d be on the street by close of business if single airmen or just as soon as you get packed if with dependents.
If they toss combat career fields into the works, and government loves to play the diversity game, the same thing will happen. Palace balance, an open (or deal made) career field, or the street. They won’t make it through basic and they will be right where they started and uncle sugar says well we tried. Feds are bailed, incoming numbers are padded, and then the process starts to do the same thing when the physical aptitude fails. It’s the same thing, just a little more expensive at the git go and the slots will remain empty. I don’t trust them any more than I can throw them.
wy69
“You and I, playing the game for a big part of our lives, understand the thinking going into this...If they toss combat career fields into the works, and government loves to play the diversity game, the same thing will happen...”
I can’t say I understand the thinking, if it is indeed any more detailed or complete than panicked reactions to the latest crisis, or diktats from political leadership.
While I do deem fitness important, I have for long suspected that the emphasis on fitness has more to do with the service depts desiring to minimize costs associated with poor fitness and chronic disease resulting from it. Applies to long-term costs associated with aging and eventual retired populations.
I’ve read the unclassified literature for years and confess to steadily mounting concerns over the burdens laced on foot troops, chiefly over the increasing weight of gear and weapons they’re expected to carry. Certainly, average females are not capable of packing the loads carried by average males, but males aren’t doing so well either, PEO Soldier is best by problems involving stress and repetitive motion injuries.
Not amount of moral parenting, “good upbringing,” “right living,” or training/conditioning is going to solve these problems. Indeed, no solution will be possible until some changes occur. Combat and preparation for it are exceeding the upper limits of the human body.