[ILS21R]

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.

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.

[Mr Rogers]

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.

[Repeat Offender]

I understand modern warfare very well.....I have four back to back COMBAT deployments. Women have no, zero, zip, zilch, nada, nien, mu, nunca place in a combat unit. Unless it is a clerical or nursing (rear echelon) position.

And sometimes, you can't just call in A-10s and Specter C130 gunships and scream "Broken Arrow" into the radio and everything goes awesome just like on tee-vee. Things often go south of bad.

God made men one way, and women a different way....and women are the "weaker vessel."

I know what it is like to hold the hand of one of my Marines as his life slowly bleeds out of him while the doc frantically searches for the entry wound. I couldn't imagine what that would be like if that Marine would have been a woman.

I know what it is like to go Winchester, surrounded 360 degrees by the enemy, cutoff, pinned down, and next to nill chance of re-supply anytime soon.....danger-close artillery is the only thing keeping us alive. I thank God, we didn't have women with us if not just for their sake, but ours.

I know what it was like when we learned Jessica Lynch had been taken POW and that emotions were higher b/c she was a woman. Losing a brother in arms is hard enough....men are supposed to be protectors of women; even seeing pictures of fallen women I don't know in the Military Times articles is difficult.

I also know that the women are still not held to the same fitness standards as men, which also makes it easier for women to get promoted (they do less, or do it slower for a higher score).....meaning men often have more experience before attaining the same rank.

Further, there's no place for open homsexuals, or any other leftist social engineering degradation of the military.

I think that sums up modern warfare pretty well.

[MSF BU]

He doesn’t understand ‘modern warfare’? Surely you understand we really haven’t faced a tough enemy since 1973? Basing policy on the ability to defeat an Iraqi ground force with no naval or air component to deal with is foolish. What happens when our Marines and Soldiers face twenty divisions from North Korea or China (or both at the same time)?