amen sister :-)
A Hearty HOO-AAHH to you, LTC!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your service, but none of your post has to do with combat. Few would argue that women cannot contribute to military intelligence, logistics, psychological warfare, etc. However, physical and "relational" (for lack of a better word) differences between men and women are relevant to combat situations. Bottom line, women make a unit less combat effective. And, yes, this includes pilots who sometimes find themselves ground troops and always have to live with other men.
By the way, no one is trying to take away your right to vote. That comment was just ridiculous. Stop being so ... hysterical.
Did your work involve pulling the bodies of the RAF pilots out of the wreckage? No? Then you're not really responding to the post that you're so amazed with.
Back to the 50's, right? Or whatever era you figure was better. Before women got the vote perhaps?
What's with the ad hominem attack?
Speaking as a former Marine, I have no problem with females filling any slot they can qualify for. I've met a lot of males I wouldn't trust to park my car let alone watch my backside in a combat zone.
OTOH, I've met a few females that I'd willingly ruck up with any time, any place. I served with some WMs who would have been more than happy to tear of peoples heads, fill 'em with C4, and toss it back at the bad guys. They could've done it, too.
My perspective on the 'problem', and I am not saying there is one, is that the other less professional services (read Army, Navy, and Air Force) do silly things like train men and women together, and have different standards for their performance.
If the other services would train men and women to the same standards then there wouldn't be a problem.
Now that I've no doubt pissed everyone on the thread off, please allow me to thank you for your service to our country ma'am.
Semper Fi.
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I'm not against women in the military per say, heck, if it were me, seriously, they'd fly 50 caliber sling helos as citizens owning them, and not this pseudosupport for women paying with their lives & progenitures for a shot in the military.
Government work for women is inherently evil because the government has an interest in controling & limiting reproduction.
It has nothing to do with skills for women, it has to do with ethics in the usage of emotionaly & politicaly vulnerable women by the government and lawyers who do not want responsibility but plenty of child sacrifice for their sakes.
I'd like to read your thoughts about the fact that we do not register women for the draft. Should we?