The feminists wanted "equal" opportunity in the military, which meant that we could no longer segregate duties to keep women out of combat roles. Unfortunately, none of the grownups who were supposed to be in charge had the balls to tell them to forget it.
Don't you know? The feminist don't want "those type of women." You know, those that actually serve in the military?
SEE: Jessica Lynch, Shoshonna (sp?) Johnson.
Including our current "Commander-in-Chief."
President Reagan would have asked: "If not now, when?"
After six years with a Republican Congress - it won't be anytime soon.
Yep, it's simply a logical (more correctly, ILLOGICAL) conclusion of the feminist movement and its confluence with the feminist war on boys, most of whom have been successfully deballed.
Thank you Bela, Gloria and Betty.
You hit the nail on the head. It should have ended 1995 one of the first acts of the newly elected GOP majority house and senate. It is a critical defense issue.
A liberal DEM POTUS started much of this mess by allowing women on ships and in deployed units near combat. If a woman is in supply support unit near combat {in country} for example she is a target in combat. All supply members are potential targets. However if she is a Nurse she is in usually less danger. The enemy is generally not interested in taking out a M.A.S.H.
Get the women out and bring them back to the states or to foreign missions away from nations we are engaged in war with. Get them off of combat ships no exception. Tugs OK they are pretty well safe there and tugs generally are not sea going with few exceptions. Women on carriers etc? No and end it A.S.A.P. I can think of 100 good reasons for them not to be there and no reason that would justify having them there over the response delays it would have to cause.
These are not places to play P.C. equality games they are not equal. They are not equal in strength, in biological make up, nor in primitive survival instincts. It does not make them better or worse than men it makes women and men as GOD created them for their natural purposes.
If a ship is on fire crew member usually do not waste time getting fully dressed to respond. If it is man overboard I have been to many a skivvy uniform of the day muster mandatory visual on station confirmation on the other end of the ship. Your shipmate may be in the water and critical information is needed fast. Who, where, clothing, location, etc all are needed critical immediate need to know. Yes if we were in the shower we wrapped and walked ASAP to our work center so the WCS could see us.
Waiting for men and women to be decent to run down passageways, from the showers to berthing areas etc in emergency effects readiness from Fire Quarters to Man overboard, to General Quarters and ZEBRA being set on main passageways then throughout the ship. It just common sense this has to be significantly effecting response times.
Time is everything. Waste it and it is your enemy. Save time and it is your friend. This kinder and gentler military nonsense has to stop. I would not want my daughter or grand daughter deployed on a ship.
I'm a back to the basics Traditional Navy supporter and not ashamed of being so.