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Women in Combat Spells Trouble
Town Hall ^ | Jan 25, 2013 | Linda Chavez

Posted on 01/24/2013 9:41:00 PM PST by Red Steel

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To: PLMerite

“Or whatever fraction of a male soldier she represented.”

Too funny!


21 posted on 01/25/2013 2:57:38 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: freedumb2003

Not a good idea—Its OK when we are winning and fighting 3rd rate nations—but what happens in a real war—and we lose battles and have lots of our people in POW camps? What happens when we send out our air force and only half come back? Or we see video of our carriers rolling over and going down with a thousand sailors with it? Think of Bataan— What would have happened if half of the US troops were women? Our foes have openly said they would sell our female POWs as sex slaves. Not a good idea to experiment with such things.


22 posted on 01/25/2013 3:22:27 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Red Steel
Women in Combat Spells Trouble

Let's see how America responds when the first wave of "battle shredded" women vets return home and what their stories are.

Oh wait, the media isn't going to cover that part of it.

23 posted on 01/25/2013 3:24:49 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Lower55

Lower55: “Women should be in combat troops if only for the sex.”

Well, I guess there IS an upside to this, eh?


24 posted on 01/25/2013 3:25:20 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Red Steel
What is a the feasibility of having a front line solder who is automatically out of commission for 1/4 of combat service?

Will the enemy schedule attacks for "that time of the month"?

Given PMS, perhaps that could be turned to an advantage.

Do we really need this conversation? It's being forced on us.

25 posted on 01/25/2013 3:27:21 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

Women aren’t “automatically out of commission for 1/4 of combat service.” Some might be at less than optimum performance for a day or two, but that’s not the point. Even at optimum performance, they’re not physically up to some jobs. Shoot, most men couldn’t qualify for some jobs.

Even if some small number of women were capable of qualifying, they would be more prone to injury and they would disrupt their units. A woman might not care about stripping, bathing, or sleeping alongside male comrades, but the men would certainly be distracted by her.

The current military leadership thinks they can just order men to not notice women, just like they think they can billet open homosexuals with heterosexual men. General order: no sexual relations in the field. It makes far more sense to me NOT to create such situations in the first place.


26 posted on 01/25/2013 3:39:15 AM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Red Steel

We have transformed political correctness into political insanity.


27 posted on 01/25/2013 3:52:45 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Caipirabob

“Let’s see how America responds when the first wave of “battle shredded” women vets return home and what their stories are.”

One of the more insidious motives of this move is to make it less likely for the United States to commit troops to battle. The Left hates America and everything it stands for. They have been to varying degrees blatently supported most of our adversaries since WWII.

The only use of American military power the left will back will be its use against the People.


28 posted on 01/25/2013 3:59:04 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: garjog
Obama is destroying this nation. Will we recover?

Gun control.
Food control.
Thought control.
Masculinity control.
Responsibility control.
Speech control.

All the result of women who think the government needs to protect them from the law abiding citizen.

Worse yet, they voted overwhelmingly for Obama.

29 posted on 01/25/2013 4:01:18 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: freedumb2003

I expect this announcement any day. Watch the feminists howl...


30 posted on 01/25/2013 4:38:27 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: SECURE AMERICA

I agree.


31 posted on 01/25/2013 4:44:29 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Red Steel
This article mainly discusses the sex part of the problem. Leaving that, men are taught from their early life to help women because they are physically weaker than men and that is a fact. In battle, they will do the same thing - a woman will be the weak link in a group of men and they will protect/help her and that makes the unit weaker as a whole.

If I were a man and during battle was wounded, I want a man with that upper body strength to get me out of there - not a woman who doesn't have comparable upper body strength. One can say put a woman in battle, but those muscles inherent in a man's body are not in a female body and she is weaker by genetic makeup.

As a woman, if I were in battle, I want a strong man next to me, not a woman. Why is that? Because that man is stronger.

This is another liberal move make quickly by one man and now that's the way it is.

I believe gays and women in battle spells losing the battle. I also think regular guys won't be as prone to join the military due to this. How many men will think, “Join the military and have to fight in a fox hole with gays and women - no thanks.”

32 posted on 01/25/2013 8:06:28 AM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: kearnyirish2
"What serious Christian could even justify having their sons in the service of this government?

When my sons registered with Selective Service, along with the usual little card, they filed specified "conscientious objection" documents with Selective Service, our elected representatives at every level (even our county sheriff's office), and with the Department of Defense, based on their Biblicist Christian upbringing, faith, and practice.

1. Cannot serve in close quarters or combat with women.

2. Cannot serve in close quarters or in combat with admitted sodomites (homosexuals for the politically correct minded).

3. Cannot serve under United Nations command, or as anything but a clearly identified United States soldier.

4. Cannot serve in any capacity where open, verbal witness for Jesus Christ is forbidden.

5. Cannot serve in any capacity where the consumption of alcohol is a prominent feature of military socialization.

. . . and several more items.

33 posted on 01/25/2013 9:33:33 AM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: Red Steel

The good news is that such stupidity will be punished by actual warfare. That’s also the bad news.... Moral of the story: diversity and equality are descriptions, not achievements.


34 posted on 01/25/2013 9:57:16 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Marcella; P-Marlowe; Lancey Howard; Girlene; jazusamo; bigheadfred; smoothsailing; 4woodenboats

You are correct, Marcella, that upper body strength will mean that a man can evacuate a wounded female, but that a wounded female cannot evacuate a wounded male. What this will eventually lead to is a bitterness and cynicism within the unit that will seriously degrade small unit morale.

The notion being advanced that some women can meet the standards set for the men is a red herring because the male standard has a minimum and a maxium as does the female standard. Essentially, the maximum female standard regarding upper body strength barely exceeds the minimum male standard, and with the youngest troops, those likely to be on the front lines and in small unit engagements, the maximum female score is exactly the same as the male minimum allowable score.

This is a significant difference, because the notion is that a soft, young, Nintendo, couch potato male is expected to vastly improve. He can get out of basic training with that low score, but the future intent is to move him much higher on the chart, and especially if he is going to a and infantry or other front line type small unit.

With this female that is exactly the same as the lowest male standard, she is considered to be the ultimate female at her age, incredibly in shape and the epitome of what an in-shape female is to be.

IOW, there isn’t much improvement that’s even considered possible

However, let’s consider urban warfare and consider female height versus male height. Are the females able to reach a high window for an alternate entry point, or are they always going to have to come in the door?

Consider as well that a female must IMMEDIATELY be removed from the front lines as a response to pregnancy with zero impact on her career. How many would time their ovulation just to get out of hell? I had an wise old female military surgeon tell me once....quite a few.

What is the replacement flow? How long does it take to get a replacement? How badly is a squad hurt if it loses 1,2, 3 people out of 10? Enormously. Who has your back then? Which squads now have to pull double, triple duty?

Enormous morale problems are on the horizon.


35 posted on 01/25/2013 11:50:31 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

Don’t disagree with anything you wrote. If a female cannot throw a wounded soldier over her soldiers in an evacuation, she has no business in combat.


36 posted on 01/25/2013 12:10:40 PM PST by Girlene
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To: xzins; Lancey Howard; Girlene; jazusamo; bigheadfred; smoothsailing; 4woodenboats

I hate to be politically incorrect, but if I am on the fourth floor of a burning building with a broken leg, the last person in the world I want to see coming up the fire ladder is some 120 pound affirmative action female.

And if I am am a wounded soldier lying on a hill in a fire zone, the last person I want to see coming to carry me out of the line of fire is some 120 pound affirmative action female.

Women can pull a one pound trigger, but they can’t carry a 240 pound man across a battle zone on uneven ground.

I think it is time to bring back the draft. Make it a requirement that at least 20% of ground forces be taken from the ranks of draftees. That would put an end to this whole social experiment involving homosexuals and women.


37 posted on 01/25/2013 12:12:24 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: xzins
“You are correct, Marcella, that upper body strength will mean that a man can evacuate a wounded female, but that a wounded female cannot evacuate a wounded male. What this will eventually lead to is a bitterness and cynicism within the unit that will seriously degrade small unit morale.”

Thanks for your reply. Let's go back to cave man days. There was no affirmative action there, it was the strongest would survive and the weak wouldn't unless the stronger helped the weaker. Men hunted together to get the food and there was no woman in that group. Why was that? Because even at their stage of development, they had the sense to know that woman was not as strong as they were.

I live by myself and wish I was as strong as a man, but guess what? That is never going to happen because muscles are aligned on men differently from women.

Our legs are also not like a man's leg. Women's knees are slightly turned in and when they run, you can see it - a man will run faster due to this.

I hold two medals for the 50 yard dash and for hurdles - against women, not men. Several years ago, I found out why I was a fast runner. An MRI was done from my knee down on my right leg. The attendant had to adjust the mechanism and she said, “You must have been a runner because your leg is more than normal length for a woman from the knee down.”

I never knew that, I just knew I could run fast. Being able to run fast would be an asset in the military, but I could never match a man in strength - it would be idiotic to think I could. I was a psychological therapist and an EMT, not a runner for my livelihood.

Cavemen knew, could see, women couldn't hack hunting for the beast - what's wrong with us that WE can't see it?

38 posted on 01/25/2013 1:34:59 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: P-Marlowe

It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve come to grips with the fact that America elected (and re-elected!) an African communist as its president and commander-in chief of the armed forces. The place is now little more than a land mass populated by cretins, ingrates, and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors so that it may be “redistributed” to them in exchange for their votes. It is simply not a nation worth defending anymore. That America no longer exists.

The parasites outnumber the hosts now, and there’s no going back. America is dead.
The Democrats have won.

Therefore, it’s tough to worry about Ubama’s sodomization and feminization and destruction of the once-proud US military. I will, sadly but with a smile, always remember America fondly for what it was. The grand experiment of the founders had a great run. But now?

I’ll just shrug and take care of my family, and do whatever I can to stay under the radar, preserve and hide what I’ve got and deny, to whatever extent possible, the scumbag government the fruits of my labor. But mostly, I will keep on having myself a blast! There’s no point being down in the mouth about anything.

Good luck everybody. Please don’t get agita over any of this. Let others wallow in the nightmare. Rise above it and have some fun.


39 posted on 01/25/2013 2:07:35 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard; Girlene; xzins; P-Marlowe
America elected (and re-elected!) an African communist as its president and commander-in chief

You mean Blow Fly Barry? Seriously. That wasn't just a "housefly" after him. It was a blow fly.

I have a 22 year old daughter. If somehow she were to be drafted there is NO WAY she would ever go.

But it has been mentioned before it is known that women living in close proximity tend to end up cycling at the same time. Properly managed there would always be a battalion or two of PMS troops READY TO KILL.

And hey Girlene. Where were you today when I pulled the bed off my pickup to change the fuel pump?????

40 posted on 01/25/2013 4:33:00 PM PST by bigheadfred
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