[kingattax]

.."let the sheilas have a go"

[Bulldawg Fan]

Amazing. More heavy lifting for the male soldiers because no amount of political correctness can make females good infantry soldiers. You see it in police and fire work, the military, everywhere radicals have pushed women to be physically equal to men. The women hang back when the fight begins, the men have to cover more ground that another male would cover right there beside them. And everyone suffers. But the radicals feel good about the diversity while men get killed.

[Little Pig]

I don’t really have a problem with this from a capacity standpoint, IF they stick to the idea of not letting women do jobs they physically can’t do. Not many women can repair a thrown track on a tank (and not even some guys), or carry artillery rounds. But, women can drive a LAV, or operate a MLRS just as easily as a man. Further, women take up less room in notoriously cramped armored vehicles, which can be a benefit. If, however, they succumb to PC, and try to let women do nearly everything, and give them the crutch of letting some other soldier do most of the heavy lifting, then this will fail.

[Buckeye McFrog]

letting the PC crowd take over their military....they may has well just put up a banner in Sydney Harbour saying “Welcome to our new Chinese Overlords”

[ZULU]

Once upon a time, Aussies were real men. But then so were Brits and Americans.

This use of females in combat situations is ridiculous, emascualting and indefensible. It is political correctness gone madder than normal.

[The Great RJ]

While I do not like the PC motives for allowing females into military combat roles, I have been impressed by recent accounts of the valor of some of these female soldiers. For example the Norwegian female soldier who took out 75 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and the UK female medic who despite being wounded heroically saved the lives of several soldiers. I agree that in many combat roles the female soldier lacks the physical strength of her male counterpart and may cause some morale issues, but in some roles she may be quite capable.

[monday]

Do Australian females want to serve as front line combat soldiers? I guess some do, but why?