You make a claim - then there is no follow up with details. Details, please. In what way does this damages discipline? As you formulate your answer I’ll text my son and ask for his experience with respect to this while he was in Iraq (with a combat unit) just to see if there is any common elements. I’ll also ask my niece who was in Iraq providing security for convoys. Then, I’ll begin asking the same from friends whose daughters and nieces also served in Iraq in various capacities. And, perhaps there is even some documentation out there in cyberspace that can be brought into the discussion. Maybe even writings both pro- and con-? Before a debate of this type can be thoroughly considered, I’d suggest more than one persons opinion is required.
So SoldierDad what does your DD-214 look like?
“You make a claim”
You have yet to back up your claim. This is a good time for you to do so.
“Details, please. In what way does this damages discipline?”
Because when you mix a lot of young people together of different sexes they frequently think more about sex than doing their job.
Its not necessarily the fault of the woman or of the man. Both are in circumstances they don’t know how to handle.
“I’ll text my son and ask for his experience with respect to this while he was in Iraq”
Do that. I’ve been there personally and also received the PC warnings from the military.
Quit taking this personally. What benefit does it bring to mix women an men in combat? If you cannot see the complexities it brings then you are dishonest.
BTW, men are taught to be hyper-sensitive to women in their units, you know, watch your language and behavior and such, and then when they all ship out the men are supposed to turn off decades of PC senstivity-training and view women as mere buds on the line? Not going to happen.
Actually, Post 34 is the reference post.