feh...I guess SEALs don’t have to do pull ups.
Infantry basic is a LONG way from BUDS or Q course. That is out of 100 men who apply, only about 3 actually make it.
feh...There is no reasonable case to be made. I first heard of this stupidity back in the 1980s—they have been working on it for decades. One female Seal means one qualified male that is being excluded. THE BELL CURVE CANNOT BE FUDGED.
Maybe they can start with tranny SEALS. That way you still have men doing the task but you get to check off two identity politicks groups with one pen stroke.
Elliott Ackerman starts off his article in typical “Liberal” fashion. Namely, a lie. He states that over the past decade women have proved they can sustain the rigors of combat. The fact is NOTHING has been PROVEN.
What is really going on, I believe, is that certain officers, worried about what Obama’s thugs might do to their career, are pushing the non sense that women have “proven” they can endure ALL combat requirements like young men so that they can look good to Obama et al and not get put on an early retirement list.
I have read many unbiased articles that are completely contrary to Mr. Ackerman’s fantasies. For those that will write and demand I produce them, it’s called Google. Help yourself.
What a grand plan.
If you have something that works (SpecOps), keep F*&%ing with it until it doesn’t.
this article is not “PC nonsense”
it is an out and out LIE- to destroy our military-
That is the stated goal of the communists currently
occupying the senate and white house.
By lowering the standards for women in combat training for purely sexist reasons, the Secretary of Navy and the Marine Commandant have given aid and comfort to the enemy.
My solution, in the same vane as the article:
put in the requirement for male seals to mate with female seals and the little ‘seal pups’ will be required to go into the navy at age 18 and become seals. thus we create a replacement system for the seals, but with a long gap between ‘procurement order’ and enlistment.
A bad idea, IMHO. I recognize there are many women who serve or have served in the armed forces with honor, and I am thankful for each of them and their sacrifices. But with the SEALs, we’re talking about a program so grueling, so physically demanding, that only a tiny percentage of male candidates are able to complete even the initial phases of it (I know I sure couldn’t). Most women are not as physically strong as most men. The likelihood of a female candidate having the strength and endurance to complete things even the publicly known training exercises like Surf Torture, Drown Proofing, and whatever you call the log carrying exercises seems awfully remote.
Now, I’ll admit such women could exist. (I’m sure there are some lady FReepers out there that could whoop my butt, LOL). But the likelihood is, most won’t and there will be pressure to lessen the standards from Congress. I can only see that as disastrous for a group that is routinely called on to do the impossible, and is expected to act as the ultimate team.
I'd like to know how we've proven this. Beyond brash assertions by cocktail sipping beltway feminists I know of nothing that qualifies as an assessment of females in sustained combat operations. The reason for this is simple: At no time during the past 10 years has the U.S. military been involved in sustained infantry centric combat on the order of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Women have performed well in the type of combat experienced in Iraq and in parts of Afghanistan, but they were not infantry soldiers and were not subject to the physical demands of long term infantry combat operations.
Liberal feminists just want another scalp on their belt, they would never volunteer to serve in the military, and even less volunteer to serve in the infantry. They just want to flex their political power in order to intimidate government to provide them with the financial and competitive advantages of being declared a favored group. This also helps to destroy our military, one of the few institutions not yet destroyed by the plague of liberalism.
[Sidebar: why doesn't the state controlled media give us a casualty count every day like they did when Bush was in office?]
Oh, and where is Cindy Sheehan, and Media Benjamin these days, huh?
5.56mm
Although Women do make very effective assassins
It is usually under the cover of a “harmless” exterior
Okay. Now that we have “the case”, the next question should be WHY? Are we having problems recruiting MALES for the SEALs these days? Anyone with a brain knows that the standards will have to be lowered in order for the “gay” people in the Pentagon to push the first female through BUDS as the “honor graduate”. It happens all of the time. Males and females are different regardless of what the “progs” like this guy would have us believe. How in the hell did this guy get the Silver Star? Didn’t Hanoi Boi Kerry get a Silver Star also?
How tough can the advanced training for women Marines be if they don’t have to pass the standard training anymore?
Its a physical one - even the smallest man is far stronger and weighs more than the tallest woman.
You can’t wave biological realities out of existence and Hollywood movies that show tiny women kicking strong men into unconsciousness is pure fantasy.
And assault weapons are not made to carry easy and and having to slough around 100 pound backpack on a full march takes a lot of endurance.
As well being able to fight in the heat and cold and day and night. When your life is on the line you want to be sure your partner can pull their weight. PC in the military has nothing to do with ability to defend our country but everything to do with ideology and social engineering.
Our enemies aren’t drafting women to fight us. We’re losing sight of what’s important here.
“....easier for a 6-foot tall, 180-pound man.” I’m reminded of Audie Murphy.
Yes, it has. The odd part is we’ll be downsizing all branches of the US military in the next few years. Fewer men will be needed. Drones and robots will also do more of the things humans used to be needed to do. In the meantime, the social experiment of making women fill traditionally male roles will get pushed even harder. There are tradeoffs to these types of things, of course.