Posted on 01/24/2013 6:33:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“Weak Link” by Brian Mitchell. . .
There are execptions to every rule and there are probably plenty of positions in combat units where women can play an important role, such as where gaining the confidance of local women or children is important. No experience of the Israeli Army, or any US unit, would indicate that women would make good fireteam leaders.
DARPA today has a long-term, $3 billion program to help make such a Metabolically Dominant Soldier. In other words, the military is studying how to use technology and biology to meld man and machine and transcend the limits of the human body. Described the project director, My measure of success is that the International Olympic Committee bans everything we do” The $3 billion program is definitely trying to achieve transhuman performance goals.
The wearable gear would enable running at 100 meter olympic sprinter speed for hours and the 7 foot vertical leap, the wall crawling, personal flight, invisibility, greatly enhanced strength, better body armor and carrying bigger and more powerful weapons.
Heather MacDonald greatly understates the situation, in the quote above. The yet more compelling argument is this. It is the Chivalric duty for young men to protect the women & children, which creates the concept that the measure of a Man is in at least a significant part defined by his acceptance of that duty. It is that sense of defined manhood that elicits the "above & beyond" concept, which brings out that something extra, which can turn the tide of battles & win wars.
It is also in that traditional sense of sexually defined roles that brings out the best in young women, even as its repudiation undermines the social fabric.
See Feminist Delusion, for an analysis of the absurdity of the Feminist denial of the importance of traditional sex roles. In the real world, there is nothing more important to the normal individual than his or her sex; after all the future of all advanced forms of life, is derived from clear sex roles.
William Flax
Posted this on another thread; fits here too:
Actually, snipers is about the only field I would let women participate in. Many women have good aim. As to the rest, keep them out. This could be a fine example of be careful what you wish for as you may get it. All these women thinking they are feminazis screaming for equal rights on the front lines. Well, lets see how much they actually try to get those positions now that the choice of becoming battle hardened will be a reality. I suspect 90% or more of women in the services are actually secretly horrified at being presented with this option.
You arent going to see many volunteers, and amongst the ones that do, most will fail to pass the physical requirements for front line service. The whole thing is a big joke, as the ladies on the front line will all soon find out. Hah, the Obama regime has inadverdently called their bluff. Most of the ones that are itching to fight are the dykes anyhow. Well, lets see how the ladies feel after a goodly number of their kind get picked off in battle, or captured, tortured, and/or raped. Wont be so much fun then to be one of the boys, because theyre not.
Yeah,,, Jessica Lynch was a great warrior role-model... /sarc
Meeting the standards are not enough. You can kill off half of the male population and have little effect upon the babies born in the next generation. In order to accomplish genocide, you have to kill off the women. We need not volunteer to do this; we are doing an apt job aborting more babies every year than American has lost in all wars in our history combined.
I wrote this just after Operation Iraqi Freedom began nearly 10 years ago. It still applies:
http://www.aim.org/publications/briefings/2003/may01.html
http://www.wnd.com/2001/08/10269/
“... it is a common misperception that Israel allows women in combat units. In fact, women have been barred from combat in Israel since 1950, when a review of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War showed how harmful their presence could be. The study revealed that men tried to protect and assist women rather than continue their attack. As a result, they not only put their own lives in greater danger, but also jeopardized the survival of the entire unit. The study further revealed that unit morale was damaged when men saw women killed and maimed on the battlefield.”
“...the soldier explained that she had been afraid to shoot at the militants, saying: “I had no chance against them.” Brigade commander Col. Guy Biton told her that she had not behaved as expected of a combat soldier.”
Why is it always a photo of a chick holding a gun, anyone can hold a gun, or shoot one.
If you reach 90 reasonably healthy, don’t you think that you will be able to go to the range and shoot guns?
Anyone can shoot, a 70 year old man can still shoot like a 18 year old girl, but neither of them can get themselves, and their gear, into and out of the places where the shooting needs to be done.
As long as you drop them off, and pick them up, anyone can lay there and shoot, just as anyone can do reconnaissance, as long as you envision that as merely lying there and looking through binoculars. What makes soldiering something that not everyone can do, is everything before and after being at the spot where you want to shoot the bullet from, or push the button, or observe activity from.
Exactly, now tell her to grab 120 pounds of gear and go take that outpost at the 11,000 foot mark.
You would be amazed at how embarrassing it is to actually watch female soldiers trying to do stuff that involves strength.
Hey, they claim technology will make all those points moot. Super Soldier and robotic mules will close the gap. A women will have the strenght of 7 men and be able to run all day long with a full combat load. They spent 3 billion bucks on that program.
Technology doesn’t reduce the combat load, it just increases lethality and effectiveness but the poundage seems to stay the same, or increase.
They are talking exo-skeletons. They have working prototypes. Strap one on a woman and she can carry any load any where.
Performance enhancing drugs. Patches that will inject food, meds, etc. All types of futuristic stuff is on the drawing boards.
Look up Super Soldier.
Yeah, I’m well aware of all that, your posts are useless, and not well thought out.
I’m glad that the American lives that this decision will cost is so cutesy and humorous to you.
Grow up GI Jane, who hides behind photos while promoting anti-military politics.
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