then put them in ALL female companies/battalions and let them sink or swim on their own...Yea, right.
“”I think that fairness is very important in a values-based organization like our Army.””
Is this a joke?
How about you dimwitted generals worry about combat effectiveness. This is not it.
Women soldiers used in front-line offensive combat operations just don’t cut it.
Right. In other words they will determine that the current standards are no longer necessary and they will lower them so that women will be able to qualify. Hence, making them the same for men and women.
Translation: Standards will be lowered across the board so that everyone feels better about themselves. Whether or not America will ever again win a war is irrelevant, as long as nobody's feelings are hurt.
Is this guy actually a career soldier? Did he draw the short straw in the Marxist Club in college and have to infiltrate the military to further their goals?
Does that mean that the women entering the infantry will have to meet the same minimums on the PT test as the men?
The minimum passing score in the Army in each category (pushups, situps, and the 2-mile run) is 60 points.
For a 20-year-old male, that’s 42 pushups. For a female, it’s 19.
The more common minimum acceptable score for infantry units is 70 points, with a strong push for 80 points. Which are 49 and 57 pushups, respectively.
There certainly are some women who can meet these standards, though not many. Will the women entering the infantry be held to the same standards as the men? Or will they be held to the lower, gender-specific standards?
In the case of an electronics tech, the gender-specific standards make some sense. In terms of general health and conditioning, the male and female standards represent roughly equivalent levels.
But when you’re dragging a wounded buddy out of an alley after an ambush, he doesn’t get lighter just because you’re a woman. In the infantry, objective, rather than relative, measures of performance are appropriate.
Ugh. Where is fairness suppose to fit into an organization in which the main function is to kill or die in order to protect the nation. With men like this running our military it's not really our military anymore is it? I mean these guys are paid to protect our way of life not transform it into somekind of Communist ideal. And the destruction of the natural differences between men and women and all peoples really is at the core of Communism, which itself is just a means to a end.
What's next? Pass a UCMJ regulation against gravity?
then put them in ALL female companies/battalions and let them sink or swim on their own...No problem, people. We’ll just make a standard that lots of women can pass and make THAT the standard for both sexes. Then we’ll have infantry made up of women AND weak men! Mission accomplished!
(What mission? Why, turning our armed forces into a new Peace Corp, of course! Only with rifles and APCs!)
Gender neutral = lower standards for all members. Great! The feminization of our Military has begun. How long before we have a military equivalent to France's???
As long as their packs are the same weight and they take their turn humping the .60 cal.
Couldn’t resist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YouveComeALongWayBaby2.jpg
First screening test using a live grenade:
Can the women candidates throw a hand grenade far enough to not be killed or wounded by the grenade?
So violence against women is values based? And they cried that the republicans were waging war on women, butdems are putting them women in war and hiding behind them.
the worst part of this horrendous decision is this....if a woman is allowed to be given a combat role, then she can, and will be ordered into one.....she, like every male in the military, will have to accept whatever position that she is ordered to fulfill.BAD IDEA.....of all the inane things coming out of the Obama administration, this is, by far, the worst.
Forgive me but our military leaders running the army talk like little PC pussies.
