Waiting for more publicity on the 2 women who made it through Ranger training.
Turns out the entire class got more food and rest than the standard Ranger training classes.
Per NCO’s at the camp.
Yeah, and Uncle Fester Odierno went all in with it.
Despite their denials, this administration IS forcing lowered standards to “get women through” even the most critical tests.
The Army Ranger women grads are frauds. Believe me.
Ping.
Oh, boo hoo hoo.
They need to even this out by injuring more men.
I wonder how many time they are more often likely to get pregnant?
predictable. women’s bodies are not designed by our Creator for that kind of combat wear and tear. and as men know, you “play” hurt most of the time. there’s no timeout in war.
and, btw, one of the worst things this is doing is implicitly lowering standards for men.
That is right because as a woman I cannot do what a man does especially physically.
And I like when the door is held open too.
Yep, a real woman.
Call me girl anytime.
There I said it.
Never mind I earned half million dollars on my own and have it for retirement.....never mind!
God made us this way. Made us all capeable to take care of ourselves and each other by HIS design.
There....huh.
My father was in the Army Infantry during WWII. I can just almost hear him now about women going into combat (he couldn’t have pictured that & he would not have liked it either).
In fact, he once stated that homosexuals who were mustered in when he was did not last through basic. Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble. Those men were going in to charge Hell with a bucket of water. Anything that got between them & Adolph Hitler was going to get mowed down.
I think he felt cheated that he didn’t get to personally put a bullet between der Fuehrer’s eyes. His outfit did march into Berlin just half an hour after Hitler had committed suicide. - He never underestimated his enemy; did not overestimate them either!
Soldiers in the Met Section do not have what I consider to be a physically demanding job, yet females experience 113% more injuries than compared with their male counterparts. What is going to happen when they are assigned to a Howitzer crew? The HE projectile on a 155mm gun weighs 96 lbs.
Feminism is a major pillar of the Leftist war on reality. The fanaticism of those who cannot accept the importance of sex, as a role definer, needs to be addressed; but few are willing to incur the wrath of the radical feminist.
We are not so inhibited: Feminist Delusion.
I do not enjoy incurring the hatred of those claiming to represent the fair sex--although of course they really do not. But what I clearly do not enjoy is seeing young women minus limbs, sacrificed to feminist fantasies.
Odierno was commissioned in Field Artillery. Has he taken a mind washing on how much it takes to lift 105mm and 155mm rounds and their powder charges. I only lifted the 155 rounds a few times, and they are heavy, 95#. I was a 13E, Fire Direction Center guy, but our FADAC weight 200 lbs and the 3Kw generators about the same. The computers are smaller these days, but it still takes strength and endurance to “hump the joes” as we use to say.
Quick, hide that stat, we can’t have reality!
I’d like to see the women who can hump 100+ lb ruck sack with a Mortar baseplate, and a SAW. And then hang while digging a mortar pit and fighting position.
Yeah, apparently 2 exist in the USA. But then can they do that, and haul a man off the battlefield if he’s injured?
Now tell me how it’s so great to have women in combat arms?
This explains the physical aspect. I drew this up, and it might not be completely accurate, but explains it, especially the red hatched area:
Freeper smoking frog provided the excellent link to the document below, which I urge anyone to read.
Women in Combat - The Question of Standards
It was written by a Marine who happens to be female (Jude Eden, and I specifically avoided calling her a "former Marine, a description used for people like John Murtha and Lee Harvey Oswald) who spent time in the Middle East. I found her article to be depressing, sad, brilliant, uplifting, and ominous all at the same time.
Depressing because it is true: There are AMERICANS who are pushing this agenda with no regard to national security, battlefield readiness, or the lives of the men and women who will be sacrificed when the bullets begin to fly.
Sad, because this is where we are: most men in the military are bending over backwards not to have their voice heard saying: "This is a bad idea. We cannot integrate women into combat units without severely degrading readiness and the ability to perform the mission.
Brilliant: If I can take the money passage: "...Meanwhile, the argument to maintain the combat exclusion makes itself easily in every aspect. Including women in combat units is bad for combat, bad for women, bad for men, bad for children, and bad for the country. The argument for the combat exclusion is provable all the time, every time. Political correctness has no chance against Nature. Her victories are staring us in the face at all times. The men just keep being able to lift more and to run faster, harder, and longer with more weight on their backs while suffering fewer inju- ries. They just keep never getting pregnant. The combat units have needs that women cannot meet. Women have needs that life in a combat unit cannot accommo- date without accepting significant disadvantage and much greater expense. Where 99 percent of men can do the heavy-lifting tasks typical of gunners, but 85 per- cent of women cannot, there is no gap women need to fill..." That pretty much sums it up.
Uplifting, because this Marine who wrote the article is a Marine, and has demonstrated and successfully argued that there is a role for patriotic, dedicated women who want to serve their country as she did, and her service means no less because she wasn't kicking down doors. She is an American Woman, and her heritage and ideals have more in common with the tough as nails frontier women who conquered this country with their men. She makes the feminists look like the petulant, spoiled, anti-American no-loads that they are. This sailor salutes her.
Ominous, because this movement, like the liberal cancers it shares all qualities with, is not going away. The article you linked, smoking frog, describes this perfectly, and why it is inevitable. Because military readiness and capability is being sacrificed on the altar of an Orwellian concept that men and women can do the same tasks exactly the same. This altar will run red with the blood of both men and women, and we are going to suffer lives needlessly ended, battles lost, and a national humiliation the likes of which we haven't seen.
It won't happen now, and it won't happen during some years of the peacetime military. But when we get to a point we are fighting an enemy who is going to be evenly matched with us, we are going to lose, because they cannot be stupid enough to follow the path we have. And when it happens, the people who will scream the loudest in protest, are going to be the successors to the people who made this all happen, since they will likely be kicking back somewhere, comfortable in their Monday morning armchairs, talking about how it wasn't the emasculation of the military combat units that caused this, it was that we didn't spend enough time, money, and effort to make it work.
Anyway, one more time, the link for those of you who want to read it: Women in Combat - The Question of Standards
This is why the left are winning. This is old old news (see CMR) yet no one really knows it. In ten years some genius will report it again...and it’ll be brand spanking new again.
Active Duty ping.