Marine Ping!
Kinda surprised at Gen. Amos.
Idiots. They won’t have strength to put a round in a tube, nor to change track on a tracked vehicle, or carry a buddy to an aid station.
The basic concept of combat is winning. They are making it equal opportunity.
Don’t be surprised. He isn’t well-liked by the Marines I know. He was on base here last week, and guys were scrambling to find ways to avoid meeting him. This is the first Commandant in my husband’s 17 years in the Corps that I have seen Marines so actively go out of their way to avoid.
“Last year, Congress ordered a review of the policy formally excluding women from combat roles.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta took that a further step in February by directing the services assign women to some combat roles and study the results.”
What elese could he do?
Options are:
1)Obey the directives from Sec Def & Congress
2)Resign
3)Openly defy chain of command & use the fall back position of defending the Constitution against all enemies, foreign & domestic. Unfortunately, the framers of the Constitution assumed we would continue to have a smattering of common sense.
4)”assign women to some combat roles and study the results”...it would not take a stacked deck to come to the conclusion that women in combat roles is a stupid idea. Not as stupid as allowing queers in the military, but a stupid idea, none-the-less.