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Army Opens Jobs in Combat Battalions to Women
Military.com ^ | May 16, 2012 | Kristin M. Hall

Posted on 05/16/2012 12:04:59 PM PDT by QT3.14

Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what has already happened in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The policy change announced earlier this year is being tested at nine brigades, including one at Fort Campbell, before going Army-wide. It opens thousands of jobs to female soldiers by loosening restrictions meant to keep them away from the battlefield. Experience on the ground in the past decade showed women were fighting and dying alongside male soldiers anyway.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: army; military
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To: QT3.14; kjenerette

If the female soldier is up to the task, so be it.


21 posted on 05/16/2012 2:10:42 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: tbw2

Command Sergeant Major of the Army. The top enlisted guy.


22 posted on 05/16/2012 2:14:41 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: DTogo

- and if she can’t pass basic lower the requirements.


23 posted on 05/16/2012 2:15:10 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Iron Munro
"Band them all together into Affirmative Action Brigades and send them to the front as a unit so they don’t get the real soldiers killed."

Better yet, reinstitute human wave tactics.

24 posted on 05/16/2012 2:15:37 PM PDT by VR-21
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To: warsaw44
- and if she can’t pass basic lower the requirements.

If he/she can't pass Basic they shouldn't become a soldier.

25 posted on 05/16/2012 2:20:55 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: thefactor

Infantry isn’t the beginning and the end of the story, they can’t even lift a heavy cooking pot, change a truck tire, climb into a five ton, I watched some MI females try to set up their big canvas tent one time, it was a fiasco, the males of their unit had to go over and do it for them.

The military life, especially outdoors is largely moving heavy stuff, lifting, digging, handling things that need a man’s grip, every time we physically weaken ourselves we take a step back.

A 20 year Sergeant used to moving and utilizing 20 GIs to get maximum results, will have to adapt his expectations down if he gets 20 females instead.


26 posted on 05/16/2012 2:50:03 PM PDT by ansel12 (When immutable definition of Bible marriage of One Man, One Woman, is in jeopardy, call the Mormon.)
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To: DTogo

Cute.

If they were then we wouldn’t be having the discussion, but they aren’t.


27 posted on 05/16/2012 2:51:46 PM PDT by ansel12 (When immutable definition of Bible marriage of One Man, One Woman, is in jeopardy, call the Mormon.)
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To: thefactor
Yup, but you can’t stop the tides. Especially with this new CSMA. I just hope they hold it off long enough until I’m out.

Don't worry they're ruining the Marine Corps too. I know so many SNCOs with 10+ yrs in, in critical MOS' (that are SHORT and NOT effected by the cuts) that are leaving in droves.........most of the people I know worth a damn are counting down the days [or already gone].

Elections have consequences.

28 posted on 05/16/2012 2:59:12 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: warsaw44

Nope, the US won’t reconsider. Just like the Romans, they’ll keep partying the night away until the Vandals sack them.


29 posted on 05/16/2012 3:20:43 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: max americana

It’s just not a good idea. The country is on a path towards destruction, this is another confirmation of it.


30 posted on 05/16/2012 5:51:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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