[TalBlack]

The team leader was a female 1LT. Do any of you want to tell her she shouldn't have been deployed to Iraq?

Why not? In the meritocracy that the military was befor the feminization, the guy looking for Saddam would have been better qualified for the job. Might have found him sooner! The truth is that that 1LT was probably promoted and assigned AHEAD of better qualified men BECAUSE she was a woman

We look at what she did in finding Saddam but we DON'T look at how many men have died because the woman around them, when the shite hit the fan, were ineffectual. Nor do we examine how many woman CAN'T ACTUALLY DO THE JOB THEY ARE ASSIGNED. Yep, odd as that sounds it's true--you could go look it up. Try www.cmr.org

[brushcop]

You are right on. I have reports of women mechanics who can't lift their tool boxes (and they work on tracked vehicles to boot); the diminished PT exercise requirements/skills tests are proof enough on physical standards and those are just starters.

I talked to a young woman that wanted to be a combat medic. I asked her if she could drag, carry or remove my 6' 175# son off the battlefield if necessary and she said, "Oh, I'd get help". God help us. I told her that she had no business getting into something in which she couldn't perform up to standards just because she thought it would be "neat to do".

RB

[68skylark]

I'm thankful for all who work for freedom in our military. I don't care if they are male or female -- they all have my respect and admiration.