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"We have been forced to accept soldiers who are not the best for the sake of political correctness."

"Forced to accept..?????" and "soldiers who are not the best..???"...implies two premises that are not true. The second premise is that the military trainers, requirements and the commanders permit the placement of a woman in a job specialty and unit assignment that she is not qualified for. Does not happen. And the first premise is that everyone is "forced" to accept the second, which, is a non-sequitor since the second does not happen. The third unstated premise is: if the women who have volunteered to serve were not doing the jobs that they are doing,there is some vast resevoir of men who were going to step in and replace the 14% of our uniformed troops that women now represent; and the facts that thatr is not going to happen either; while we do make our enlistment goals, we do so just barely, we do so with the inclusion of the women who join and in the present war-time scenario we force the extension of the terms of many troops due to the quotas we need in certain specialities, which cannot be met by simply giving an existing soldier a job they have never had.

Someone had a slow day at the news room and had to fill some columns that would have otherwise remained empty, so they wrote a story that is a non-story. We have women in the military. We are war. People in the military get killed in war. Get over it, or vote for national and global isolation with appeasement forever.

Marine Corps Physical Fitness Standards

Males
Age	Pull Ups	Sit Ups	3-Mile Run
17-26	3	50	28 MIN
27-39	3	45	29 MIN
40-45	3	45	30 MIN
46+	3	40	33 MIN

Females
Age	Flexed Arm Hang	Sit Ups	3-Mile Run
17-26	15 Secs	50	31 MIN
27-39	15 Secs	45	32 MIN
40-45	15 Secs	45	33 MIN
46+	15 Secs	40	36 MIN

The second premise is that the military trainers, requirements and the commanders permit the placement of a woman in a job specialty and unit assignment that she is not qualified for. Does not happen.

Actually, it does. But it happens with men, too. The military isn't perfect.

" The second premise is that the military trainers, requirements and the commanders permit the placement of a woman in a job specialty and unit assignment that she is not qualified for. Does not happen. "

I know a few NCO's over here that may disagree with you on that.

However, I've also witnessed female soldiers (enlisted and officers) outperform their male counterparts, in a variety of situations.

One complaint I've heard, usually from older NCO's, is of "standards" being lowered to allow females to "qualify" for certain MOS's.

The fact remains, if you are in a war zone, (male or female, soldier or civilian ), you are at risk. IED's, mortars, and rockets, don't discriminate.

Regards