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One American service woman died as a result of enemy fire in Vietnam.
Lt. Sharon Lane was a nurse and was killed when a piece of shrapnel from a commando led mortar attack hit Ward 4 of the 312th Evacuation Hospital, Chu Lai.
Women in the infantry are great......in the movies.
Right.....
When you get shot you know that 120 pound gal next to you will be ready to throw you across her shoulders and dog trot you to the pick up zone.
CSA Ordierno is pushing females into the Ranger Course starting in FY 13. That’s how FUBAR things have become in the Army.
Kruschev would be so proud.
Whatever. Women stopped being feminine a long time ago, hence guys like me (40, single, never married).
Young men and women, continually learn to be more frugal and healthy. Become more self-sufficient each month. Learn to produce something useful. Practice self-defense diligently for the rest of your lives. Be humble. Be nonpolitical. Don’t enlist.
There are usually some babes who are part of the heroic characters in the story line and what do you often see them do in the action part of the films. They get in there and mix it up with the males be they be bad guys or just a friendly bar room fight. You will often see some 120 lb gal knock out with one punch some 260 lb 6 foot 6 inch bad guy (or absorb several of his punches before she lands the coup de grâce .)
Now really! Think about it!
Women on average have half the physical strength of men. (I have seen figures as low as 40% of the strength & as high as 60%. I will split the difference and say 50%) It's not really strength its also the ability to absorb punishment. Women's bodies just don't have the structure to take that many physical blows without a debilitating injury occurring. (Or stress on the joints! There are some revealing labor injury statistics on this !) Men on average can and yes there are always exceptions (And this is NOT the same thing as pain of childbirth!). Every time I see this type of stuff on TV, I start pointing out the physical absurdity of it. My wife yells at me its TV...It's TV!
We have probably had 30 years of this sort of “visual conditioning”. It's no surprise to me that modern “decision makers’ have confused that fantasy with reality.
Confusing fantasy with reality seems to be a common thread in modern society these days.
Chesty must be spinning at about a million RPM...
This year's birthday party is going to be borderline revolutionary...Last year's was already close to it...
Why is it that we never hear about women headed for the NFL? If women can go to the front lines certainly they can play pro football with the guys. Political correctness will send women to the infantry but real football will always be played by big, strong MEN. No girlymen or burlygirls.
Females in the proper front-line roles (ie, pilots, truck drivers, tank drivers, artillery crews, etc) did the USSR a lot of good during WWII (many of the Soviet Union’s top snipers were females), so perhaps there is some merit to this.
However, that is being said with the full knowledge of political correctness nowadays, as well as the full knowledge that some people view equality as a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
Most women think it doesn't really apply to them, since they haven't made a choice to go into the armed forces, let alone to serve in combat. Isn't "choice" such a lovely, comfortable illusion?
But the precedent is being set. We have come from a society where men only were drafted and sent to war in order to spare our women from all that "war in person" is, to one where that kind of protectiveness of the so-called "weaker sex" just seems illogical and old fashioned. And also, indefensible.
The Draft is not over, it's just not being used right now. In the case of another world war, the "voluntary" nature of armed service will quickly be replaced by conscription, and in view of all the precedent set by placing women in close proximity to harm's way, there is no way that the "weaker sex" will be exempt from it. And having crossed the barrier about women in combat, there is no way to justify exempting them from that either.
I pray I'm wrong about that, men of my generation sacrificed their lives and freedom to keep our women safe an away from war, but that's not where we are today...