Panetta removes military ban on women in combat, opening thousands of front line positions.

Associated Press ^ | January 23, 2013 | Staff

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Panetta removes military ban on women in combat, opening thousands of front line positions.

[smoothsailing]

Stop the war, I broke a nail.

[NKP_Vet]

General Robert H. Barrow, 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps testimony before the SASC on Women in Combat. June 1991.

“Combat is killing..........that’s what it is...........”
and women can’t do it”. They are for nurturing life, not taking it..............”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy—whDNNKk

[xzins]

The sexism, macho crap, and outright disrespect for women (mascaraing as chivalry) is all mixed up with the sensible realism. What is left is mostly a cesspool.

If the Israelis don't do it, then it doesn't make sense.

I already knew it didn't make sense, but the Israelis could use extra bodies on the firing line, and if female bodies worked as well as any other body, then the Israelis would have them there. IIRC, they tried, it didn't work, they stopped it.

Ergo.

[Chode]

feh...

[NKP_Vet]

Listen to this soldier who served in Iraq talk about women and fags in combat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wffvuEHyZl8

[littleharbour]

Buggery in one trench. Fornication in the next. Dyke fraternization down the line. And the fighting will be left to the few heterosexual men who have enough honour and commitment not to be lured by the temptation of females in close proximity to a war zone. Unlike the generals who lead them.

[thouworm]

Are we expecting to need a new batch of cannon fodder?

Jarrett: It's Protecting Women From Violence'

"Just a couple minutes ago, presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett, who is personally close to President Barack Obama, tweeted, that "If there's one thing we should all agree on, it's protecting women from violence."

"Jarrett's tweet comes the same hour Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the Obama administration would allow women to serve in combat..."
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The Lionesses of Syria: Assad recruits army of women as he starts to run out of men

It doesn't even appear that Assad is putting women on his front lines (unless, of course, he changes his mind later, as dictators are apt to do).

[jazusamo]

I'm sure we all knew this was coming with the sorry excuse for a CinC we have in the WH, I'll refrain from further comment.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Remembering my time in Air Force boot camp. The year was 1979. Was during a big push to get women in the service. After a few days we were grumbling about wanting more PT just to kill the dead time. We were bored. Our TI said they couldn't have us do more as we had to stay at the same level as the female flights. He even told us that we were being slowed down on purpose in the name of gender equality. I think they thought long and hard for a solution to the problem and came up with one. Instructors were not allowed to comment about that anymore. Problem solved.

[Starboard]

the GOPe will never, ever undo this
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Nor anything else that’s harmful to the Republic.

[Nickname]

Congress is irrelevant and has been for a while now.

[Lmo56]

If this policy is approved, there should be a caveat ...

Any woman in front-line combat unit who gets pregnant while assigned in a combat zone, along with the father of the baby [if also military], should be cashiered with dishonorable discharges.

Combat units in a combat zone have their number of personnel assigned for a reason - they are NEEDED on a 24/7 basis. Current military policy is to remove female support personnel from a combat zone when found to be pregnant.

If a woman assigned to a combat unit in a combat zone gets pregnant, she may not be able to be easily replaced in a timely fashion. This reduces the combat strength of the unit and potentially places the other members of the unit in mortal jeopardy.

It is no different than desertion in a combat zone ...

[Starboard]

I honestly don’t see the Republicans undoing this anytime soon. But hey, I could be wrong.
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No, you’ll be right. Its a safe prediction.

[FeliciaCat]

Cute Shoes!

[SevenofNine]

NOw I know the term Warrior Queen come from LOL!

[Karliner]

Ambiguous at best. So many huge concerns. It ain't like the movies where a 90 pound woman kicks some 300 pound guy in the nuts and he goes down. Or some woman kills fifteen bad boys loaded for bear with a pistol at 100 yards.

Ambiguous, I suppose my old line( probably garnished or stolen from someone else) is the pink bayonet squad is now a reality. Ann Barnhart aside, there are few men that make it in those spec ops and front line units so I suppose divide by ten or fifty and you have one bad a## woman. I know there were/are Ruskie, Chicom, NVA and Israeli womens teams/units but, I dunno, someone else probably has a better anser than my non-answer.

[rbg81]

Captured women will provide the enemy with a great way to get their prisoners back-—starting with the Blind Sheik.

Its all part of the Plan.

[longfellowsmuse]

Happy Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favor.

[unixfox]

I can see this going really well.

Women suing because of sexual harassment.
Women suing because of emotional distress.
Women suing because of job discrimination.
Women suing because they don’t have their own bathrooms.
And on and on and on...

This is a recipe for disaster. But then again, this is what our government does. CREATES PROBLEMS!

[taildragger]

This is to save Hillary. It gets her story out of view. It is very very bad. Very bad.

You and I are the only other ones here that gets this, I saw it right away...