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Cruz would consider restoring combat ban for women as president
Washington Examiner ^ | 1/31/2016 | Jacqueline Klimas

Posted on 02/07/2016 2:56:04 AM PST by JediJones

Cruz promised to take another look at the administration's decision late last year to open all positions to women. The administration's move ignored a request from the Marine Corps to keep some frontline combat positions male-only after some studies showed women were more likely to be injured and perform worse.

"The Marine Corps request [for exceptions] must be reconsidered," Cruz wrote in response to a Center for Military Readiness survey released Sunday. "As long as the requirements are fair and universally applied, the military must always place the best person for the job at hand, whether male or female, but we cannot let political correctness compel the military to lower its standards."

In survey answers, Cruz also said he would not require women to register for the draft and prioritize military readiness over social experimentation in the military.

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KEYWORDS: commanderinchief; cruz; feminism; military
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To: don-o

Drafting women/women in combat is another way to push government-run abortion. You put men and women together, pregnancies result, but the whole point of the women’s being in the military is lost if they have babies.


41 posted on 02/07/2016 2:27:41 PM PST by Tax-chick ("We have no values in common with Saudi Arabia."~ Daniel Greenfield)
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To: nclaurel

Special Forces, infantry brigades, ranger units, submarines. They are certainly not abundant in any of these types of units.


42 posted on 02/07/2016 5:39:38 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: Politicalkiddo

My experience precisely. The young gals getting of the bus were immediately targeted, especially the slender, pretty gals of European or Asian extraction. They’ll be drunk and a sex toy within a month of arrival and a pregnant service member soon thereafter. How many of the Romney girls are enlisting?


43 posted on 02/07/2016 5:41:50 PM PST by MSF BU (Support the troops: Join Them.)
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To: MSF BU

Don’t understand the message. Sorry guess too much time passed since conversation with you. Don’t know who you mean as they.


44 posted on 02/07/2016 5:56:22 PM PST by nclaurel
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