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Putting Women on the Front Lines
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| Feb 18, 2012
| Joshua E. Keating
Posted on 02/18/2012 7:20:22 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion
“Kseniya Agarkova is not just a pretty Russian brunette. She can shoot rifles, assemble machine guns in a flash, and floor the fiercest attackers.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t doubt she could get down ON the floor with men, but I don’t believe she could floor very many guys. It is that feminist, Hollywood BS that won’t last 10 seconds in hand-to-hand combat.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:10:26 AM PST
by
Mr Rogers
("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
To: Mr Rogers
Hollywood BS that wont last 10 seconds in hand-to-hand combat.That's why they use guns.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:18:53 AM PST
by
ILS21R
(Never give up.)
To: BarnacleCenturion
![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/chode6/chode2.gif)
Bad Idea...
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:20:04 AM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: SoCal Pubbie
The original coed nature of Israeli fighting forces in 1948 grew out of a far left egalitarian ideal that there is no difference bewteen the sexes. That's certainly true -- but there may also have been an element of anyone big enough to carry a weapon, fights!
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:21:22 AM PST
by
maryz
To: jmcenanly
I’ve got some real concerns due to the recent deployment to Afghanistan of 6 female soldiers from our local National Guard unit.
I don’t have any issues with them being deployed to Afghanistan but I do have issues with the fact that they’re being pulled from behind desks at a transportation unit and will “accompany” combat troops on patrols to act as liaisons to Afghan women in remote villages.
When these troops go out on patrol, they may not intend to enter combat but combat often comes to them. Add in a half dozen women who write newsletters and file paperwork and you’re asking for trouble.
The local newspaper quoted one of them as looking forward to seeing the beauty of Afghanistan, helping the Afghan women, and writing about her experiences. This 20 year old women spoke like she was going on vacation.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:24:18 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: ILS21R
“That’s why they use guns.”
Sorry, but you don’t understand the picture.
Sometimes, things go wrong. Sometimes you are outnumbered. And even using a gun isn’t easy when you’ve been carrying 100 lbs of gear for 16 hours.
Women make fine soldiers in peacetime, or when everything is going right. But when everything is going to crap, a 120 lb woman is NOT what you want at your side. In bed, maybe, but not at your side when you think dying is a very real possibility.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:26:14 AM PST
by
Mr Rogers
("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
To: cripplecreek
I dont have any issues with them being deployed to Afghanistan but I do have issues with the fact that theyre being pulled from behind desks at a transportation unit and will accompany combat troops on patrols to act as liaisons to Afghan women in remote villages.I agree with you there. That is wrong.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:28:24 AM PST
by
ILS21R
(Never give up.)
To: ILS21R
Booker! Get me my aerial photographs!They're in Clermont, sir! Thirty kilometers behind enemy lines!
To: ILS21R
Well , that a fact. There are no front lines these days.
A woman could be sitting in a meeting in a secure area, and one of the Muslims we have taken in, trained and trusted could decide to kill everyone in the room.
And they don’t have to be in Iraq or Afghanistan, they could be in Ft. Worth.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:34:58 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
Well , that a fact. There are no front lines these days. A woman could be sitting in a meeting in a secure area, and one of the Muslims we have taken in, trained and trusted could decide to kill everyone in the room.You win!
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:37:26 AM PST
by
ILS21R
(Never give up.)
To: BarnacleCenturion
However, about one-fifth of active-duty military positions, including the infantry, combat tank units and special operations commando units, will remain off-limits.Aw c'mon! It can't be all that bad. After all, SF had Martha Raye, and the SEALs have Demi Moore.
/sarc
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:38:10 AM PST
by
Sarajevo
(Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental)
To: 17th Miss Regt
They're in Clermont, sir! Thirty kilometers behind enemy lines!lol
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:39:46 AM PST
by
ILS21R
(Never give up.)
To: BarnacleCenturion
I contend that we should draft the women who bitch the loudest about it, and put them right up there where they seem to want to be...no matter what age (look out Helen Thomas).
What you resist, persists, and sometimes in a shoving match you should just move aside and let your opponent(s) fall on their face.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:42:39 AM PST
by
FrankR
(You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
To: BarnacleCenturion
Front line combat troops should consist ENTIRELY of women and Federally Protected Minority Groups until such time as their casualties equal those of white men in the Civil War ... on both sides.
Those left behind might be able to get a few weeks of some good training in the meantime.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:42:39 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
To: BarnacleCenturion
One of the reasons why we have 20 million illegal aliens and Cartel violence spilling over into the United States is because we allowed women into front line Border Patrol units. If you want to demoralize our troops and lose battles one of the best ways to do it is to put women in combat units.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:42:57 AM PST
by
Ajnin
(Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnocet!)
To: Mr Rogers
Sometimes, things go wrong. Sometimes you are outnumbered. And even using a gun isnt easy when youve been carrying 100 lbs of gear for 16 hours.Is that when you call in the A-10s? Look, I understand the point you're trying to make. But you don't understand modern warfare.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:44:23 AM PST
by
ILS21R
(Never give up.)
To: FrankR
Women in combat might well be a violation of the Geneva Convention to which we remain signatories. They are just too damn mean!
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:44:52 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
((So, you're telling me Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out this eligibility stuff?))
To: BarnacleCenturion
So a beauty contest is now considered the front line?
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:47:23 AM PST
by
tjps
To: ILS21R
Yeah - I don’t understand modern warfare. I only spent 25 years in the military, and deployed on the ground in Afghanistan in 2007.
My son just got back from Afghanistan in December.
But what do I know? Hint - a lot more than you do, apparently.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:51:24 AM PST
by
Mr Rogers
("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
To: Mr Rogers
Sorry, but you dont understand the picture.
Good response. I'm a 'Nam vet (artillery), and even with many months of training, it was nothing like actually being in combat.
More times than not, it was strength and stamina that saved the day ... things that women have less of, by nature. That's just the way it is.
That some want to put women into combat when you know it's to the enemy's advantage is insane.
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posted on
02/18/2012 8:54:30 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
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