Posted on 02/01/2013 9:38:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Do you actually believe carrying a rifle across your back in a climate-controlled building is the same as infantry combat?
Hot girls with guns.
Great pic!
I’m not sure I’d want to mess with ‘em myself.
He'll never make the general officer ranks in Obama's army.
Do you actually believe that any one of those women couldn’t kick your butt 7 ways til Sunday without blinking an eye?
No, but it's all that stuff they did before they earned the privilege of carrying a rifle across their backs that I think is the same.
You are right. Women in Israel do not serve in combat unit.
Any country that sends women to fight and kill is inherently perverse, unnatural, and anti-human.
No more rape charges.
If women are equal to men there is no way a man could rape one.
I'm sure any one of them could kick my butt. Then again, I'm a grey-haired couch potato. That's not the issue. The issue is, could any of them survive more than 30 seconds in a hand-to-hand encounter against an in-shape combat-trained MAN in his 20's? I don't think so.
The standard is based on what an acceptable number of applicants will pass, in order to fulfill service requirements. If the passing applicant set are all men, then it should not matter.
This is the logical extension of the "affirmative action" mentality that was applied to race "If not enough minorities pass the tests of literacy or mental ability, then the test itself is at fault".
Could they shoot and kill me? Undoubtedly. Could they win in hand to hand or carry the same level of gear into a combat zone or heft another warfighter over their shoulder and carry them a mile to safety? I don't think that at all.
We can all cite examples of extraordinary woman who have fought and fought well but they were extraordinary.
In this case they are citizens of a country that is very small and surrounded by vicious enemies. I admire them greatly but arming woman and sending them into combat when there are able bodied men to fight is a rejection of reason and logic.
Lots of sexual assaults but not all are rapes. A lot of the “rapes” are soldiers climbing into each others bunks voluntarily.
What is not stated in the reports are some of the assaults are not soldier on soldier. They throw in off post assaults as well as assaults by non US personnel.
Either way the statement you mentioned is claimed to be one of the reasons why the assault rates are thru the roof.
I actually date the loss of our civilization to when we allowed women the vote. Once ‘compassionate, caring’ women had the right to vote, we were doomed.
Particularly single women. Single women, as a whole, want to be married to Mr Government.
“Do you actually believe that any one of those women couldn’t kick your butt 7 ways til Sunday without blinking an eye?”
Not unless I wanted them to...and I’m in my 50s.
In my lifetime, I have watched even post-1960s standards of femininity, for example, plunge to a point where female tendencies toward privacy, intimacy and modesty have given way to norms of clinical-style revelation and numbing brazenness....
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Oh, yes, the progressives have been quite successful in their goal of destroying women’s sense of modesty. It is quite appalling.
And what makes is so very sad is that there are so many in the Gen-X and later groups who have no idea of what has been lost. I see it even here on a conservative site.
Yes, I absolutely believe that. I'm six feet tall, 240 pounds. I bench over 300 pounds, squat over 400 pounds, and standing press over 200 pounds. I would break any one of them in half without breaking a sweat. Yet, despite all that, infantry combat was utterly exhausting and very, very demanding.
A uniform doesn't make you invincible. I've seen the dead bodies to prove my assertion. Women are not cut out for direct infantry combat, period.
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