I agree and every damn one played the PC BS game. There are about two others on this board who actually humped the bush in Vietnam and I did, too. I can damn sure tell you no woman is going to take a pill to stop her from taking a dump for 3-4 days straight then hump the bush with 380 rounds of 5.56 mm,4 HE grenades, 4 smoke, a claymore, add a belt of M60 7.62 machine gun ammo, a 60 mm mortar round in her rucksack along with extra ammo, 5 days rations, etc. Then she has to hump through wait a minutes vines that snap back and cut your arms, hands, face, or any where they hit, have leeches crawling on her and sucking her blood, go without any washing of anything, no teeth brushing, no nothing except water, smokes, and food you brought plus you fill your canteens with stagnant water from bomb craters and a halzone tablet as going to a stream will most likely get you killed. Add walking/wading in thigh high swamp water and no squatting to pee, no wandering away from the perimeter at night where you spend half the night awake/alert and only sleep 3-4 hours. You may well have to take an amphetamine to go on this mission as you may well have been up the night before this OP on a night ambush. There is nothing romantic ladies about living like a damn animal in the bush and you make as little noise as possible as your job is to find and kill the bad guys before they find you. One wrong step or noise can get men killed. When you get back off the choppers in camp the medics will give you what we called “brown bombers.” Before you can finish a shower your ass will run for the latrine to take a dump.
Thank-you for your service.....
....I never imagined it was so brutal
....what you described is surreal
Again, thank- you!
Welcome Home! I hope your post will have changes made on campaign websites.
Well that was one of the most awesome Posts that I personally have ever seen put up on FR.com
Thank You very much.
Horrific.
Women in combat is insanity, and those who support it in any way have never been in combat, have not taken the time to look realistically at the issue, are politically compromised, or are simply ignorant. For a really good assessment of this situation, written by a female Marine, check this link below by Jude Eden-"Jane of Trades", USMC on women in combat and training.
In particular, about halfway down is her seminal piece: Women in Combat: The Question of Standards, by Jude Eden. I cannot recommend this page highly enough, she served in the USMC in the Middle East, honorably, in non-combat roles, and she knows of what she speaks.
Here, from that article, is the passage that says it all: "...Meanwhile, the argument to maintain the combat exclusion makes itself easily in every aspect. Including women in combat units is bad for combat, bad for women, bad for men, bad for children, and bad for the country.
The argument for the combat exclusion is provable all the time, every time.
Political correctness has no chance against Nature. Her victories are staring us in the face at all times.
The men just keep being able to lift more and to run faster, harder, and longer with more weight on their backs while suffering fewer injuries. They just keep never getting pregnant.
The combat units have needs that women cannot meet. Women have needs that life in a combat unit cannot accommodate without accepting significant disadvantage and much greater expense. Where 99 percent of men can do the heavy-lifting tasks typical of gunners, but 85 percent of women cannot, there is no gap women need to fill..."
And it isn't just the infantry, either. I watched a video of USMC artillery, and they were humping 155mm artillery shells off the back of a truck. They were pulling them off at chest height, duckwalking them over 15 yards, putting them on the ground, then going back and getting another one.
I think they are somewhere around 100 lbs per round.
Sure, there are women who could do that. But the average woman could not.
When in a combat situation, I can certainly imagine times where that nice loader and transporter thingie is not going to be available, or you are simply in a situation where you gotta move the rounds fast using a bunch of people.
To boil it down, my objection to women in combat is twofold: First, simple differences in physical capability and function between men and women, and Secondly, the effect on morale and logistics associated with military activity due to a mixing of the sexes in that environment.