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Putting Women in Combat Is an Even Worse Idea Than You’d Think
National Review ^ | 07/15/2015 | by MIKE FREDENBURG

Posted on 07/16/2015 9:15:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/16/2015 9:15:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Wonder how the author feels about dickless tracys.


2 posted on 07/16/2015 9:20:40 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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This article is exactly right. Another example to make this point is woman’s professional basketball. These are some of the best conditioned adult female athletes on the planet. But, after watching the Indiana Heat play and win the WNBA championship a couple of years ago there is no doubt in my mind that the Indiana men’s state high school basketball champs would destroy them in a game. It wouldn’t be close.


3 posted on 07/16/2015 9:26:32 AM PDT by circlecity
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better than men at many tasks

Childbirth?

4 posted on 07/16/2015 9:27:08 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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RE: there is no doubt in my mind that the Indiana men’s state high school basketball champs would destroy them in a game. It wouldn’t be close.

OK, where would Serena Williams rank if she were to play in the MEN’s Tennis?


5 posted on 07/16/2015 9:29:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I have to say, when I got my EFMB I sloughed off training for the litter obstacle course. It is unbelievable how difficult that is. I was really unhappily surprised how quickly I went from “this is gonna be a piece of cake” to “OMG, how could I not have realized...”

The other stressor that I anticipated but nevertheless intellectual understanding and “being there” can be quite distinct entities. 15 minutes or 30 minutes or whatever it was at MOPP 4 in the tropics almost killed me and I was at peak fitness. It probably would kill me in 5 minutes today.


6 posted on 07/16/2015 9:30:06 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is also the basic and simple fact that it does a country irreparable harm to put all of its good warrior DNA on the battlefield. Might not seem fair, but it is what it is. Furthermore, insisting that the daughters of a proud military tradition are other gendered (despite their own opinions on the matter, and it does look like that’s where we are heading) is likewise stupid.


7 posted on 07/16/2015 9:31:18 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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That being said, I understand that we make better shots on average.


8 posted on 07/16/2015 9:36:50 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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If they were really serious about finding out about women in combat, wouldn’t they just deploy all women combat units and just see how they perform?

Freegards


9 posted on 07/16/2015 9:36:56 AM PDT by Ransomed
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OK, where would Serena Williams rank if she were to play in the MEN’s Tennis?


Exactly..


10 posted on 07/16/2015 9:44:12 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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11 posted on 07/16/2015 9:45:09 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Way back when, in the med bn at Aschaffenberg Kaserne I was tasked to set up the Expert Field Medical Course. I had one entire section ail at retrieving/extricating a casualty from o Tank, four female medics were unable to pull a crewman through the turret to safety, the majority of the males were able to do it on there own. I could not have run the Medical Platoon without our female medics and if I had to set up a field hospital I could depend on them to run it completely and competently, but I would have to detach a squad of males to handle any heavy lifting . Upper body strength is needed in the majority of the combat arms and, women, God Bless ‘em, do not always fit the bill.
12 posted on 07/16/2015 9:52:00 AM PDT by coldflamingo (Old Paratrooper/Nam Vet/Retired SFC USArmy)
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I don’t know because I neither play nor follow tennis on TV. Never have. Maybe someone else who is more familiar with the sport can weight in.


13 posted on 07/16/2015 10:08:37 AM PDT by circlecity
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Toss in that we are reducing troop numbers along with the percentage that are now women, and we have a recipe for disaster.


14 posted on 07/16/2015 10:23:20 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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Outside the top 100?


15 posted on 07/16/2015 10:26:11 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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It’s a bad idea only if we don’t get to nominate those women who will be in combat. For starters, any elected chick with a “D” after her name, and continue from there.


16 posted on 07/16/2015 10:28:20 AM PDT by DPMD
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OK, where would Serena Williams rank if she were to play in the MEN’s Tennis?

In 1973, 55 year old Bobby Riggs came out of retirement to play #1 ranked Margaret Court,30. He beat her handily. He thereafter played against 29-yo Billie Jean King and lost, but there were accusations he deliberately threw the match for gambling reasons.

17 posted on 07/16/2015 10:43:33 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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I remember in our high school government class (many many years back) the topic of women in the military got brought up. Every female in the class staunchly advocated that they could do the same job that men could and should be accepted in the military. I then asked, “if you are okay with it then that’s fine with me. So you are also okay if a military draft comes up again and you get chosen?” Every female in the class immediately stopped talking.


18 posted on 07/16/2015 10:48:28 AM PDT by Marko413
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I think women can learn to shoot well in less time. It seems to me they don’t enjoy it as much. I insisted my daughter learn to shoot before I would let her get her driver’s license. She hasn’t beem interested in shooting with me since. She didn’t even go with us when I taught her husband. She went shopping with her mother.


19 posted on 07/16/2015 10:49:05 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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the US women’s world cup soccer team that everyone in the media is going ga-ga about right now, gets soundly beaten when they play HS aged boy’s teams.

http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/uswnt-vs-so-cal-boys-odp.929075/


20 posted on 07/16/2015 10:54:48 AM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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