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Panetta removes military ban on women in combat, opening thousands of front line positions.
Associated Press ^ | January 23, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 01/23/2013 12:39:15 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad

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

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhodod; bhosecdef; combat; military; militarywomen; obamalegacy; panetta; women; womenincombat; womeninmilitary
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To: wardaddy

I’ll ask this question again. When did Congress lift the ban on woman in direct command roles, i.e., the infantry and special forces? Congress makes this call, not the marxist sec of defense. Faux News has barely mentioned the story. Like their counterparts, PMSNBC, they do not care.


221 posted on 01/24/2013 2:39:41 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Just because you can do something doesn’t always mean one should. A local Rep. here in WI brought up the effects of combat stress and that these women should consider that in regard to possibly becoming mothers in the future. As someone who is a Mom, and who suffers from PTSD myself, I don’t know why anyone would want to risk this obstacle to motherhood by choice. As the Mother of daughters, it worries me that they will be subject to a draft. All it takes is one more new problem and the Communists would thus have a way to conscript an ENTIRE generation.
Feminists hailing this as such a wonderful thing should be careful what they wish for.
I have so many concerns about this I could go on and on. Alas, my comp. is broken, and I’m typing this via our wii and it takes forever.


222 posted on 01/24/2013 9:23:27 PM PST by LibertyRocks
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Robert Heinlein - 1973
Notebooks of Lazarus Long
from
“TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE”

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplus age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can—and must—be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a “perfect society” on any foundation other than “women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly—and no doubt will keep on trying.”


223 posted on 01/24/2013 9:57:14 PM PST by servo1969
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To: OldArmy52
And there are the minor issues of bathroom needs, bathing, housing, not to mention the issues involved when you are a big guy and your buddy is a small woman...and you get hurt and need your buddy to carry your out of harm’s way, etc.

Saw this first hand at a deployed location. Female captain had to use the bathroom. She held it all the way from Iraq because she could not use the "honey bucket". On the C130 aircraft there is a "honey bucket" on the aft ramp. It has a screen but it only covers from shoulders down to about top of boot height if you are sitting. Your knees are facing the opposite side of the ramp and your right side is totally exposed but facing the closed ramp. If you are using the bucket everyone in the troop compartment can see what you are doing.

There is a urinal for the men behind the honey bucket.

224 posted on 01/25/2013 4:48:33 AM PST by USAF80
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To: littleharbour

I saw it first hand when me and a buddy volunteered after Desert Storm to stay and help load ships to return tanks and tracks back home. We were both in an infantry unit with no prior experience working with a unit with females. (some transportation unit)

We watched with incredulity at all the grabassing and guys and gals trying to impress one another and wondered if it was like this ‘back home’,too. We wondered how it was they ever got anything done. We later found out they had some attrition due to pregnancy.


225 posted on 01/25/2013 5:33:48 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: NKP_Vet
When did Congress lift the ban on woman in direct command roles, i.e., the infantry and special forces?

They never did. The argument being used to lift the exclusion is because in the current conflict there are no "front" lines. They are thinking that all future wars will be fought this way. They claim that women are exposed to hostile fire everyday anyway. This is true if you are on a secure base because you can get hit by mortars or RPGs and also true for the women who have to man the checkpoints.

It is offensive under islam for a man to touch a woman who is not his wife/family member. This is why we have our women doing the searches. To me it would have made more sense to get the locals to do it and just watch them. Keep our women out of harms way.

Pilots and crewmembers were exempt from the direct combat exclusion. Some were hurt and it was some of these women who filed a suit against the military. Some windbag retired general backed them up.

226 posted on 01/25/2013 7:29:14 AM PST by USAF80
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To: All; AnAmericanAbroad
How does the leftist mind reconcile the 'women are equal to men' premise underlying the push for women in combat requiring sacrifice of women to war with the 'women are weaker than men' premise underlying the "Violence Against Women Act" requiring protection of women by government?

It seems that in the leftist mind the men of our enemy will treat our women better than our own men and that women will fare better and be safer in a war zone than in American society.

227 posted on 01/25/2013 9:35:52 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

130 pound Amazons walking point


228 posted on 01/27/2013 7:15:00 AM PST by devolve ( ---- ---- ---- -CHEESEBURGER_CHEESEBURGER_CHEESEBURGER- ---- ---- ---- ---- John Belushi ---- ----)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Great idea!!!!! Let them get killed too!! And when we have a DRAFT AGAIN, which we will, the girls will be drafted also!!! YEAH!!!!! You stupid females just couldn’t STAND not being like the guys.....idiocy.


229 posted on 01/27/2013 12:47:20 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

I’m left wondering when women are going to be required to register for the draft.


230 posted on 01/27/2013 12:52:21 PM PST by CityCenter (Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.)
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To: apillar

More along the lines of wasting our defensive resources. Yes, women can be very capable of defense if needs be. Wasting them out on the frontlines first isn’t exactly the best idea.


231 posted on 01/30/2013 12:58:53 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: CodeToad

Exactly, let those who would gladly oppose whatever is good just separate themselves from the rest of us, form and army, and let God handle the rest of his promised business. Eventually, I see it coming to that, sadly enough.


232 posted on 01/30/2013 1:07:01 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: CodeToad

Exactly, let those who would gladly oppose whatever is good just separate themselves from the rest of us, form and army, and let God handle the rest of his promised business. Eventually, I see it coming to that, sadly enough.


233 posted on 01/30/2013 1:07:22 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: A Navy Vet

“9. If in a fire fight and they can’t carry a wounded man out when having the opportunity, they are to be discharged. No exceptions; “

Too bad for that wounded now dead guy.


234 posted on 01/30/2013 1:26:11 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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