Foundational cracks are more apparent and are deliberately caused. Transgenders are next
Starting from the assumption that that the major issue is social and cultural change strikes me as a major predisposition toward a particular course of action. I would not have made it in special forces, in part because I was not strong enough, even though 30 years ago I was stronger than 90% of the people I knew in the military. Today, decades later, I'm stronger than far more than 90% of military women who might be tracked for special forces. Do they really think that muscle mass and upper body strength are irrelevant?
The guy is full of crap.
Of course they will lower the Standard.
Women will not be in those units if they do not, and the screaming will not stop until they are in those units.
Any woman who wants to go into Combat should be locked up in an institution for the insane.
I worked for an Army contractor. One of my fellow employees was a female former Army truck driver who had volunteered for hazardous duty in Iraq and gone back four times. (BTW, she was very butch and had a girlfriend. There wasn’t anything remotely feminine about her.) She had severe depression, which she blamed on the Army. According to her she’d been in numerous fire fights when convoys were attacked. Repeatedly, she blamed her psychological state on the Army. After another such explanation, I asked, how many times did you volunteer to go back? And she confirmed four. Yet it was the Army’s fault that she was suicidal. The Army doctors committed her to a mental institution. That was several years ago and I have no idea how she turned out.
It was apparent she thought she could put up with anything any other soldier could handle. But the reality of the situation, which appeared beyond her grasp, was different.
Ok. We’ll see how well this works out for the infantry. Our enemies will be all male troops. Theyll see that we have mixed male and female ground troops. What do you think their response will be? They will see this as a great weakness and it will boost their morale and our female soldiers will be raped when they are taken captive. And how many female soldiers really want to fight on the ground especially when things get real, not like the fantasyland that liberals envision? How many of our male soldiers will our female soldiers be able to pickup and get them out of harms way in the heat of battle? How many male soldiers will be killed trying to be a guardian for their female counterparts because its programmed into their very DNA by God?
Mind you im not saying females can’t be good at combat but the idds are stacked against them from the very start by their sex and the brutal elements in the battlefield. Can i see a female being a good leader, strategist, and manager in the fields as an officer or pilot? Absolutely. I’ve seen it in real life. But we dont need to put women in the combat zone or the sake of PC, equality, fairness, or whatever contrived madness the administration thinks will turn us into better Agenda 21 styled citizens of the future.
When will girls have to sign-up for Selective Service?
This is insane.
Something all of our other enemies failed to do. Obama is the true Manchurian Candidate.
This politically correct and moronic statement I might add, indicates this General is looking for his 3rd star.
Horse feces! The standards are the physical training test, not the MOS test which has no regulation required ability assessment. In fact, the MOS testing ends at the end of the MOS school now, so there is no physical requirement except the service wide one. So your wide ass personnel typist can be a SEAL if your smart enough.
Do we want a serious well trained standing Army in the hands of a socialist, heading for totalitarian, government? The smaller and more clown like it becomes the better. The opposite is when socialists go all militaristic like 1930’s Germany.
A man who has his women do his fighting for him is not much of a man.
What could go wrong?
“....The major challenge, Sacolick says, is not how the female service members might perform on physical tests ......”
No Mr Sacolick that is the bottom line.
If standards call for completing an obstacle course in 18 minutes - and when women go through their time is extended to 21 minutes then the standards were lowered for females.
If standards call for getting over a 6 foot wall - and when women go through they get their own 5 foot wall then the standards were lowered for females.
Do they want to be equal or do they want special rules to allow them to stand with those who passed the higher standards.
So when can we expect females on the Military Academy Football Teams? Oh, yeah, the football teams play to win.
Stop it.
You would think that no women were killed in combat in the last 10 years! That none were wounded in action.
You don’t need to be a Seal to see combat.
Yeah.
In the bad old days of “Rambo”—we actually tried to WIN wars.
Not any more, evidently.
So much for the days when we actually won wars.
Idiots. sigh.
The only way this works is for a lowering of physical standards to accomodate women, which is something they “claim” they wont do. Stand by.