Posted on 06/21/2013 1:21:04 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - Why shouldn't women in the military have the same opportunities as men do? Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asked on Thursday. It's not a matter of lowering standards, he said.
In remarks at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Hagel was asked how he feels about putting females on the front lines of combat -- "based on our social background of men being the protectors of women," as the questioner put it.
Hagel's reponse:
First, I think everyone understands, and this is the right thing, we can't lower standards. We have high standards. We should have high standards. Our country has high standards. Our military has always had higher standards. And we need to keep those standards. And so it's not a matter of lowering standards to assist women to get into combat positions -- women don't want that, you wouldn't want that -- and I think to find the right balance of implementation to allow women to move into these new opportunities and new positions if they want, if they're qualified, if they can do the job.
And why shouldn't they have those opportunities? Why shouldn't they have the same opportunities as men do on these?
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Why doesn’t Chuck Hagel have the same opportunities to serve in combat? Send him to Afghanistan.
Yeah : )
That’s Ms. private Shirley Rambo to you, sir.
“First, I think everyone understands, and this is the right thing, we can’t lower standards. We have high standards. We should have high standards. Our country has high standards. Our military has always had higher standards. And we need to keep those standards.”
Aren’t the standards for females in uniform already lower than those for males?
The Obama Boys’ REAL “war on women”. Get them all killed in combat.
Why? Torture and rape, Chuck You.
Go over there, keep Old Misery on your shoulder for 30 seconds, and get back to me.
Why can’t 12-year olds have the same “opportunity”??
"Our military has always had higher standards. And we need to keep those standards. And so it's not a matter of lowering standards to assist women to get into combat positions -- women don't want that, you wouldn't want that .. "
But then ;
" .. and I think to find the right balance of implementation to allow women to move into these new opportunities and new positions if they want, if they're qualified, if they can do the job."
We look for the weasle room to lower those standards
Probably for the same reason the cheerleaders didn’t suit up and play in the NFL with me.
59 percent support women entering would-be draft, poll says
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3033692/posts
Exactly, it’s the dirty little secret nobody wants to address.
Here in L. A. the police training center for new recruits used to have a wall that had to be scaled for recruits to pass. As soon as the women were allowed in, that became a thing of the past.
All of a sudden all the physical test didn’t mean squat anymore. And when that came about standards were lowered significantly.
Who do you want having your back, a 6’ 3” body builder, or a 98 pound mother of three?
This is the same thing they’ve tried to do to the military. Put women in combat, and combat unit readiness will suffer.
LOL, chauvinist...
I still can’t believe this guy is Defense Secretary ,he thinks he’s running a Summer Camp
Two things jump out. Why isn’t this being called the Women of War? and it simply amazes me that women tend to “run” to the RATS who want to send them to war? you’d think ONE!?! GOP candidate would talk about this...unless the GOPe want the same thing?
It is not about opportunity. It is about ability and unit cohesiveness to defeat our enemy in the most fast and brutal manner possible. Women do not make combat units cohesive. Neither do faggots for that matter.
‘cheerleaders didn’t suit up and play in the NFL with me.’
I bet you tried on the cheerleader outfit a time or two...
:)
What is wrong with these people?
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