I don’t like it one bit.Though women should be able to serve in non-combatant units.Which they have been doing since the 1970’s.
It is utterly unnecessary. We have a population of 300+ million, of which there are MORE than enough qualified males to fill the current slots.
Our armed Forces is small, elite and the Army is comprised of less than 1,00,000 personnel. There is no logical reason to have has a significant portion of that relatively small force a group which is not required to meet the same physical standards as the men, which BY LAW cannot be deployed to missions which require them to directly engage, close with, and destroy the enemy or to be plugged in as emergency replacements for those who do, which requires a seperate logistic train to include seperate housing, and whose injuries and death impact civillian and military morale in ways that the deaths of males WILL NOT DO, at least untill the baleful effects of cultural marxism continue to corrode the civillizational impulse that has always attempted to mitigate the horrific effects of war against women and children.
We won a World War with 16 million people in uniform against the most formidable battlefield enemies that we have ever faced, with half of today’s population and over 400,000 dead, WITHOUT the need to place women into direct combat roles. This reasoning is being impelled by radical feminism and Cultural Marxist elements who care nothing for the combat effenciency of the Armed Forces.
Secondly, such action will result in more combat deaths if our military fights a military that does not put women in combat.
Ladies first!
The answers do not always fit the question.
Females are “in combat” under may MOS’s now open to them. One of the most obvious is MPs running route/convoy security. In an ambush they may be “in combat” as they react to the enemy forces.
The problem becomes trying to shift them into the primary infantry/SF/Ranger roles. That is where the heavy lifting of combat occurs.
It is there where the standards will be lowered to accommodate women.
As it stands right now at Ranger School all students must complete 6 pullups. That standard will either be dropped for all - or a different standard between men and women will be established.
If that is the case then women are not held to the same standard as men but reap the same reward.
I say that if any “man” has a problem with it, they are free to take their place.
Anything else is just bravado from an easy chair.
Won’t work. But they’ll say it will.
CPT ARMOR
MACV 1971
Nope,sorry,I’m against.Although I’ve served in the Armed Forces I was never ordered within 5000 miles of a field of battle so I can’t claim any special insight but....the only female members of the Armed Forces that I’d want to see ordered into a combat area are physicians,nurses and other medical professionals.
He was/is correct.
5.56mm
No for Combat. No for Sea Duty which on 99% of the USN ships is also Combat Duty. I would never want my daughters to be in either circumstance for any reason.
100% negative.
It upsets my patriotism as I don’t respect countries that send their women to war.
The traditional concept that it is a male duty, in any rational society, to protect the women & children, was significant factor in a Chivalric code that has brought out the best in soldiers over the past 1200+ years. It reflects of course the, on average, better upper body strength of the male, so important to traditional combat; but it also is provides the motivation to the "above & beyond" the basic call to patriotic duty. It is in fulfilling such a male role that many see the proof of their own manhood.
When you compromise that call to a higher standard, you damage something that is not readily replaceable.
Of course, the "let's pretend" world that Leftist movements seek to impose, needs to pretend that people are interchangeable--that Equality, not excellence, must be the goal. But that compulsion driven pursuit will not bear critical analysis.
For the Feminist Absurdity, in general, see Delusion, which looks at several aspects of the Feminist war on femininity, and female excellence.. For a look at other aspects of the lunacy of Collectivist/Egalitarianism, see Sabotage.
William Flax
The opinion of non military professionals about war, is nonsense..
Thats why we have military colleges..
Democrats in military school is a mistake.. most are traitors.. essentially..
Truthful Political ideology is basic.. Lie detector tests should be mandatory..
Considering many believe our troops are being groomed to be used against us, well, I’d rather face women and queers than men.
Any country that sends its women to fight before it sends the non-shaving boys and its old men of “cane” age and older, is doomed.
Women should not be in combat-period!
BIG Mistake!
Causes men to compensate and protect, rather than focus on the mission.
No gays, no women.