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To: QT3.14

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.


49 posted on 05/19/2012 11:49:16 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: cva66snipe

HELL YES, put them on point, or let them work the flank, give them K rations for a month at a time, let them go for two or three weeks without a shower, let them enjoy all of the fun of combat. They have been yelling and screaming for equal treatment for years, let them dig latrines, and then use them. I am sick and tired of women all the time yammering and yowling, let them enjoy the real world.


54 posted on 05/19/2012 12:03:23 PM PDT by BooBoo1000 (I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds my future.,)
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To: cva66snipe
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.

When I toured an aircraft carrier here in San Diego during the 90s, I looked at those metal doors, the fire hoses, the ladders, the equipment, and I saw that it was no environment for women.

I remembered my dad's description of the conditions on his ship when it endured combat so harsh, and destructive that both the Americans and the Japanese recorded it as sunk. The conditions he described, and the effort delivered by the survivors among the crew that enabled them to stay afloat, seemed to consist of a sustained period of nothing but courage and men's muscle.

Once the attack started reshaping the environment of the ship, the natural order of things broke down, suddenly it took hand tools and muscle to make doors open, things move, to dig out the wounded, make repairs, to fight back, to steer the ship, to get ammunition to the guns, to put out fires, etc., the last thing they needed was to have replaced 50% of their crew with females before the war.

72 posted on 05/19/2012 12:30:18 PM PDT by ansel12 (When immutable definition of Bible marriage of One Man, One Woman, is in jeopardy, call the Mormon.)
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