Oh brother. Here we go. "Gender-neutral physical standards" only means that they go in one direction - DOWN!!
A woman dies, a whole family dies.
Nope—As soon as a war starts they will be pushed to traditional roles: Cooking and washing and keeping records, serving important roles mind you-—Only a small % of an army is on the front lines— Woman may have to fight if the enemy makes a breakthrough—like at Battle of Bulge. But the division of labor is ancient and works well—All armies who tried to break it—suffered in the end.
The enemy should be aware of this and try to figure it out before even sneezing or taking a footstep.
social experiment to destroy the military
That's quite an assertion and one that is not supported by the facts. For example, women did not fight in WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam though certainly some died in these conflicts while serving as noncombatant nurses and auxiliaries. This statement exposes the article and the feminist movement position - it has nothing to do with the military or women in combat, it's just a ploy to advance an agenda that creates a special victim group that includes more than half of the population.
And when there is a DRAFT, the GIRLS BETTER BE DRAFTED, TOO!!! All the women LIBBERS will INSIST on it....NOT!
Here's how this works. Women are allowed into a training course, branch, or military specialty. Leaders proclaim that nothing has been changed, the standards remain exactly as they were before women were admitted. Then statistics reveal that graduation rates among women lags far behind the men. Standards are changed at that point until the graduation rates come back in line. The result is a military that is less capable of doing the job the country expects them to do.
I attended West Point from 1988-1992. Much of our first and second summer’s training was Infantry based....and women were included.
While I’m sure there are exceptions to every rule...in general, the women could not do everything the men could. No offense to women...its just how nature made us different.
But beyond that, a few other considerations:
1. Infantrymen use a buddy system, and practically sleep on top of each other.
2. Infantrymen change clothes in front of each other.
3. Infantrymen do tick checks on each other.
There are valid reasons to keep the Infantry unisex.
I suppose there are a handful of women out there who are both capable of being in the Infantry, and want to....and their career possibilities may be limited by their exclusion.
But, is it worth changing the entire military, to accomodate a few?
I hope not. Men and women are not the same, and a society that does not recognize their differences will not flourish.
Any society that sends its women to fight before it sends the non-shaving boys and cane-borne old men is fatally flawed.
Today’s US Military. Where Political Correctness trumps fighting effectiveness.
It’s bad enough when a young man is killed, but when a young woman is killed in combat, the enemy kills our future. Make all women eligible for the draft.
I lived next to a lady who was a Olympic Shotputter.
She could do it. Carrie Nation could hold her own in a bar (true she carried a hachet). Calamity Jane was fairly famous for being tough as nails. Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astaire did, backwards, in heels.
Keep the standards, and let who qualifies qualifies.
A bank was sued because they gave a test to pregnant women. They were not allowed to work if they couldn’t stand with their toes touching the wall. The court ruled that all employees had to take the test. They lost one pregnant clerk, and 3 vice presidents.
Why would they want to?
My God......they want the women dead before they can get pregnant. The country club Democrats aren’t going to have their little princesses in the Infantry. A dead woman bears no children. They would have to include women in the draft. Where would you put all the inner city women? In the Infantry. This is just another attempt by the Democrat party to reduce the number of Blacks in our country.
Women In the Military Program (WIMP).
I served in the Marine Infantry in the 80’s and I can tell you it was full of a bunch a filthy mouthed, sexist, nasty, men with the minds of adolescent boys. A perfect bunch IMHO to kill people and break things. I could not imagine any women even being around us. With the exception of the Marine Corps Ball, most guys would rarely allow their wives or girlfriends anywhere near us.
I left out homophobic.