From: Retain Mike Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2017 11:04 AM To: WSJ Letters (wsj.ltrs@wsj.com) Subject: The Tragedy of Women in Combat
As of December 2015, regimental combat teams and special forces units became bureaucratic toys for those imagining equal opportunity and affirmative action could coexist with warriors enduring the brutality imperative for victory.
Combat operations require the most severe restrictions on human emotions and behaviors to foster the uniquely understood high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion. Human sexuality cannot intrude into this authoritarian meritocracy where only those displaying the greatest savagely can win.
At the point of collision, our troops face situations requiring exceptional physical capabilities and unbelievably sacrificial, primitive, and intimate relations. They continuously face extraordinary stress punctuated by killing other humans within inherently chaotic and brittle environments.
National defense through war involves the ultimate Olympics. There is much less excuse for merging men and women into this hideous ordeal than exists for combining the athletic competitions every four years.
Institutional memories no longer exist for fighting ferocious, shrewd enemies such as Germans, Japanese, Chinese, and North Vietnamese, who utilized a full array of modern weapons. As this tragedy unfolds remember the quote that, “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”
In days to day ops, we are supposed to be sensitive and empathetic to females in the squadron, then after decades of sensitivity training we go to war and then we men are supposed to flip a switch and be insensitive to what happens to females in combat?
How’s that supposed to work?
You and me get shot down and they threaten to beat and torture you unless I talk. Sorry pal, when this war is over I’ll buy you a beer at the club.
But an EEOC-trained sensitive guy and a female are shot down and they bring in the female and threaten to rape, beat and torture her in front of mr sensitivity unless he talks.
Guess what Mr Sensitivty does?
I guess we men should be easily able to turn off that sensitivity switch.