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Panetta: ´Everyone Entitled to a Chance´ to be Combat Soldier in ´Gender Neutral´ Military
Cybercast News Service ^ | 1/24/13 | Matt Cover

Posted on 01/24/2013 6:34:43 PM PST by Nachum

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday that whether they are male or female "everyone is entitled to a chance" to become a combat soldier in a military that will now adopt "gender netural" standards. “If members of our military can meet the qualifications for a job--and let me be clear, we’re not talking about reducing the qualifications for a job--if they can meet the qualifications for the job then they should have the right to serve,” Panetta said at a Pentagon press conference. The Defense Department announced today that it would rescind its 1994 policy restricting women

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1 posted on 01/24/2013 6:34:52 PM PST by Nachum
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This will allow women to collect "combat pay", but you can be sure they'll not be in the front of the pack, facing Muslim Terrorists who will look for them for "fun" and "use"....

This is, as always, allowing women to be included in jobs they don't belong in.....

2 posted on 01/24/2013 6:38:30 PM PST by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: Nachum

Chance? I’d hate to be shoulder-to-shoulder with a female soldier who took a ‘chance’..


3 posted on 01/24/2013 6:39:49 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (IMPEACH OBAMA)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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4 posted on 01/24/2013 6:40:56 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

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5 posted on 01/24/2013 6:41:50 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Saying “It is a good idea to let faggots and women in the military, especially in combat roles” would have got you thrown in the luny bin 40 years ago.....


6 posted on 01/24/2013 6:43:16 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Nachum
No, Mr. Panetta: Soldiers are only entitled to do what they are ordered to do. If they are the most capable for an assignment, they should be ordered to it or allowed to volunteer. Otherwise, they support the mission in the background.

By this flawed assumption, everyone who wants to play NFL football is "entitled" to O-offal's famous ubiquitous "fair shot".

These people are SOOoooo living in an alternate universe. I'm reading "Caliphate" right now, and this admin along with the media makes it very believable.

vaudine

7 posted on 01/24/2013 6:43:30 PM PST by vaudine
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To: Nachum

And when it proves to be a disaster, “misogynist conservative” males will get the blame one way or the other.


8 posted on 01/24/2013 6:43:46 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Nachum

If some women can actually perform as men without the standards being lowered, and it did not involve a draft of...shall I say, women who understand they are women, I have no problem with this.

If feminists and lesbians can really DO the job of men, go for it. But leave the real women out of it. Lowered standards does not a soldier make.

As for me, this is a deflection story.


9 posted on 01/24/2013 6:44:17 PM PST by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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I’m assuming every 18-26 year old female will now be required to register for the draft...


10 posted on 01/24/2013 6:44:51 PM PST by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: Nachum

He’ll someday rot in hell....along with his puppet master.


11 posted on 01/24/2013 6:45:33 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Red State Secession Is The Only Answer)
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To: Nachum

Give them all draft numbers,


12 posted on 01/24/2013 6:45:33 PM PST by Taxbilly
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To: Nachum

I agree to some extent ... as long as the women that will be sent into combat can meet ALL the standards, both physical and psychological that are required by the men.

And they should understand that if captured by the enemy they will most probably be raped and subjected to the vilest handling imaginable. Not my perverse thoughts, just the way Allah’s best treat women, especially women that defy them.


13 posted on 01/24/2013 6:47:03 PM PST by doc1019
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Needless to say this bizarre policy is so flawed that even if it is partially implemented grave harm will be done. However what is instructive is that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who ostensibly advised Panetta to implement this nonsense, have devolved into politically correct careerists rather than the council of supreme warriors who’s sacred duty is to protect the country. Very bad tidings for our country.


14 posted on 01/24/2013 6:47:49 PM PST by allendale
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***—and let me be clear, we’re not talking about reducing the qualifications for a job—***

Sure you’re not.


15 posted on 01/24/2013 6:47:49 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (A return to Jesus and prayer in the schools is the only way.)
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To: cripplecreek

How can it possibly fail? St. Obama the Fly Whisperer blessed it, so it has to be good.


16 posted on 01/24/2013 6:48:38 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Nachum

Wondering where he gained his vast combat experience, I checked his bio:

He (Panetta) served as an Army intelligence officer from 1964 to 1966 and received the Army Commendation Medal.

Secretary Panetta holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a law degree, both from Santa Clara University.

Also, he served many years in government and in public policy (communist) non-profits as a poverty pimp.

http://www.defense.gov/bios/biographydetail.aspx?biographyid=310


17 posted on 01/24/2013 6:48:55 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Nachum

What about pregnancy, menstration? Will women soldiers be put on the pill? Get pregnancy testing prior t being sent into combat?


18 posted on 01/24/2013 6:49:09 PM PST by RginTN
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To: doc1019

Doesn’t sound like a “woman” that can carry a 80 pound pack for days on end is going to be a rape victim .....


19 posted on 01/24/2013 6:49:09 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: KittenClaws

Too many “ifs”.

I am opposed to this, wholesale, but they need to carry the concept to it’s linear conclusion.

Should we combat train enlisted/commissioned women? Yes.

Should you teach your daughters to fight and shoot? Yes.

Should we entertain women and children and old men as frontline troops? No. Last Resort Only.


20 posted on 01/24/2013 6:50:40 PM PST by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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