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I think a problem here, is that the liberals are trying to treat the military the same way we look at civilian life.

In civilian life, it would be illegal discrimination, to ban women from certain jobs or tasks. It’s been illegal for decades to advertise jobs seeking either men or women for certain jobs.

So they apply this notion of “non-discrimination” to the military, and they decide that everything in the military should be open to females, and otherwise we are discriminatory.

It seems to me that the military is different, in that, they are charged with a unique and dangerous mission, of defending the rest of us.

So now, we will be compelled to see women in combat, not because there are so many qualified women seeking combat, but because of political correctness.

We will see more women on submarines due to this concept as well. In spite of some problems that may arise with men and women in close quarters in an submarine for extended periods of time, we have decided that none of that matters. Because if we do think about those things, we are being “discriminatory”.

Ditto, with women in any military capacity. I’m sure we will see a real life “GI Jane” in the Navy Seals.

To me, a major issue is, will they lower the standards to allow for females in these formerly banned categories.

It’s one thing to allow women, and hold them to the same standards as the men.

It’s quite another if they end up eroding the high standards we rightly set for our military men, in order to have some requisite number of females in the ranks.

IIRC the extensive Marine Corps study which recommended women not be placed in combat positions and which was overridden by the Obama Administration found that even the most "fit" of women still placed in the bottom 25% of all surveyed and most were even further down to the bottom of that quartile. In other words, combat arms are not a ladies game. Their weaknesses and inabilities usually badly compromised the assigned missions.

I'm sure our enemies would love to fight that kind of a Marine Corps. They would hammer them.

Stupid, stupid, stupid...