Posted on 10/12/2015 1:52:24 PM PDT by markomalley
Integrating women into combat will eventually force lawmakers to have an "emotional discussion and debate" about whether women should also be part of the draft, the Army secretary said Monday.
John McHugh said it's still too early to discuss whether women should have to sign up for the Selective Service as men have. But, as the military drives toward a Jan. 1 deadline to open some or all combat positions to women, McHugh acknowledged the country will need to have the conversation if women have the same opportunities in the military as men.
"If your objective is true and pure equality, then you have to look at all aspects and at some point Selective Service will have to be one of those things considered very carefully," McHugh said on the first day of the Association of the United States Army's annual meeting in Washington.
The three service secretaries submitted their recommendations to Defense Secretary Ash Carter this month on whether any positions should remain closed to women. The Navy secretary did not request any exemptions for the Navy or Marine Corps, but it's unclear what recommendations the other services made.
Carter is expected to make a final decision on which, if any, positions will remain closed by Jan. 1 after hearing input from top service leaders.
McHugh noted that a change requiring women to sign up for the draft would have to come from Capitol Hill, not the Defense Department or individual services.
You want in, you’re in.
Congratulations.
You should have been careful what you wished for, feminists. You may now just get it!
Article refers to the Army secretary. Is this the homosexual Obama wanted to put in charge?
under Democrats of course.....hahahaha...if this was under a GOP administration all he** would be breaking loose
This ought to make the heads of feminists all over this country explode.
Draft? What Draft. They don’t have the balls to start conscription.
YES...I thought the exact same...feminazis...here’s your chance!
Duh! THAT’S WHY LIBERALS PUSHED IT!
So that we’ll NEVER be able to have another draft, and thus NEVER be able to fight a major war in any substantive way.
Glad I’m not on the draft board anymore.
Don’t kid yourselves...they will NEVER make women register for the selective service. When it comes to true equality, women DON’T WANT IT! Period.
It takes the army and other services incredible gyrations to find even a handful of female candidate that can pass basic combat fitness tests. Even then, they have to cook the results to simulate success.
It doesn't say much for the state of American manhood that we would even think of something a idiotic as this.
OF COURSE they will have to, and should, draft women, IF they are going to give them “equal rights”. It is a weak society that asks its women to fight, however.
The Selective Service System
https://www.sss.gov/
“You should have been careful what you wished for, feminists. You may now just get it!”
They won’t go...someone else’s size 4 kid sister will.
You got all those diesel dykes running around these days, would make great truck and tank drivers, since they cannot run very far.
Charlie Rangel does.
http://time.com/3403976/rangel-draft-tax/
It makes sense if you consider the pResident and his SecArmy are both homosexual men they do not care a whit for the female of the species the way normal men do.
Even the army has weight restrictions.
Just make them sign up for selective services like they do the guys.
They want equality so damn bad. Let them see how it feels.
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