Posted on 01/06/2026 9:52:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat jobs, to ensure what it calls the military "effectiveness" of having several thousand female soldiers and Marines in infantry, armor and artillery, according to a memo obtained by NPR.
Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel Anthony Tata wrote in a memo last month that the effort is to determine the "operational effectiveness of ground combat units 10 years after the Department lifted all remaining restrictions on women serving in combat roles."
Tata requested Army and Marine Corps leaders to provide data on the readiness, training, performance, casualties and command climate of ground combat units and personnel. The services are to provide points of contact no later than Jan. 15 to the Institute for Defense Analyses, a nonprofit corporation that assists the government on national security issues.
The memo says the data should include "all available metrics describing that individual's readiness and ability to deploy (including physical, medical, and other measures of ability to deploy.)"
Moreover, the seven-page memo calls for any internal research and studies — not publicly available — on "the integration of women in combat."
"We should not have women in combat roles" Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson wrote in an email to NPR that the study is to "ensure standards are met and the United States maintains the most lethal military. Our standards for combat arms positions will be elite uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn't care if you're a man or a woman. Under [Defense] Secretary [Pete] Hegseth, the Department of War's [sic] will not compromise standards to satisfy quotas or an ideological agenda—this is common sense."
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they need to hold these tests at different times during the month.
when they find the optimal time they can induce this state with hormones prior to deployment./
Never made sense to me when this started, I believe, during POTUS #42 WJC's watch. Women in infantry/armour/artillery always seemed counterproductive. I recall reading about the IDF after the 1967 6-Day War. The male soldiers suffered mentally seeing their female cohorts KIA. I haven't heard any recent stats, but during WJC's watch I recall reading that female sailors who went to sea were getting pregnant at an abnormally high rate. Go Hegseth!
I say next incursion send ONLY lib women.
It’s happening!
Rush Limbaugh’s “All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion!”
If war were more like volleyball, we’d want an all-woman army.
Women in combat is just like women cops, they always need men to save them when the situation gets serious.
The very few who can meet male standards probably cost far more in mental and physical accommodations through the force than can be justified.
But we really knew that all along.
We need front line field cooks. Although...men are still better cooks.
“””””We need front line field cooks. Although...men are still better cooks.”””””
In reality women are a weakness even in the physicality of getting cooking stations to the front and keeping them there, and in working them, they can’t handle large heavy tents and tarps, massive pots of heavy foods and liquids, digging and leveling sites, the washing drums, the heavy food containers, getting the trucks through the mud and changing tires on them, and whatever else is required for cooks, not to mention the heavy work of fortifying and defending when the front lines collapses or the enemy paratroops show up.
Agreed… you are absolutely spot-on.
But of course you’re speaking rationally and logically, from a thinking man’s perspective.
Can’t do that.
We Gots to be “emotional” because this is about “feelings”… it’s NEVER about reality when it comes to ANY leftist trigger issue…. And we’re supposed to just shut up, agree, and give in because… Well, just because… so there!!!!
(Sarcasm, of course)
Women are noy suited mentally (even many men can't handle it) or physically for close combat and only cause distraction within a unit.
The only people who are pushing for this are the middle0aged cat ladies of the Women's Rights movement.
Has anyone actually seen what goes on in combat?
Why waste time “reviewing”? Sheer logic is the only thing necessary.
Women who excel at powderpuff motocross might make for good combat soldiers as long as they’re dedicated to the mission. However, they can’t outride the men. Guys like the Lawrence brothers from Australia, among others. /s
Finally! Although... six months? About six seconds is all that's needed.
Women should not be denied their equality. They should be subject to the draft and assigned to combat roles in the military.
Here’s a radical idea. Everybody in our military must submit to and pass the same standards. There are four or five different branches of service each with a separate identity. That’s fine. But, the entry into basic should be a common training regimen. Six or seven weeks of existing Marine Corps training for every recruit no matter their branch of service.
We should never have allowed women in ground combat roles.
Without women in combat the trannies wouldn’t have known which bathroom to use. Since that has been solved….
EC
Long overdue. A return to sanity is vastly needed. Get the women out of the combat units where they are manifestly unsuited to be. Their presence weakens and distracts the force and is detrimental to the mission.
That includes service on warships, too.
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