Seriously. Thank God for push-button warfare! /obvious S
Posted on 04/10/2016 7:26:05 AM PDT by PROCON
A 25-year-old Louisiana woman made history this week after becoming the first female to enlist in the US Army Infantry School.
Tammy Grace Barnett, a former police officer, took the oath of enlistment on Thursday at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Shreveport.
Barnett initially planned to join the military police, before deciding she wanted to serve her country on the front lines.
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Sure, after all the tests and requirements are watered down. We're seeing that happen now in fire departments. So I expect the infantry to soon do the same.
Utterly depraved. She should be thinking about a family, not dressing up like soldier.
Rush Limbaugh’s All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion has finally arrived!
Just have to get all their menstrual cycles synchronized!
Exactly. People here think we're still fighting WWII.
course she can pass once the tests are made easier, like the woman at Ranger school where now the army can’t find her records on what she did there.
Playing games.
Seriously. Thank God for push-button warfare! /obvious S
“Can she do the job? Can she pass all the tests, meet all the requirements? Then sure, why not?”
Why not? There is more to physique than tests. She still has a uterus to contend with in field conditions.
Women can do everything a man can do in a combat situation for about 5 minutes, tops.
“Can she do the job? Can she pass all the tests, meet all the requirements? Then sure, why not?”
Because it isn’t about her. She is 100% guaranteed to destroy unit cohesion. She will find a senior NCO benefactor and avoid crappy duty. Someone will hit on her and she will report sexual harassment. Someone she likes WON’T hit on her and it’ll be harassment. Purely by chance she gets a bennie that every grunt eventually gets, but the males will believe it’s because she’s probably doing the CO.
Wives back home will get photos of her smiling beside their husbands. Morale suffers.
Anything she does, right or wrong, including doing nothing at all, will tear a unit apart. No level of can she climb over a wall and will she be professional can change the reality. Her unit is weaker just because she is in it.
Last, when she sees a deployment she doesn’t like and she doesn’t want to go, its “get pregnant as fast as she can” time. The dirty little secret is that units and ships with large female contingents deploy with many people they counted on not deploying with them due to sudden pregnancies. Her understrength unit will deploy that way, or with last minute replacements.
It isn’t just about “if she can do the job”.
Bttt.
5.56mm
How far can she pack 90lbs?
Twenty yards.
They did exactly that with Ranger school.
“Maybe sniper school?The Russians found that women make great snipers,something about their better patience?”
That was because despite todays hit movies, sniping is something you can quickly teach and use, and it is very useful in a defensive war, with huge piles of rubble that were formerly great cities.
You could shove a Nagant in a woman’s hand, put her in a building with food, and wish her luck.
But humping a sniper rifle in Afghanistan? Yeah, sure. Patience is cute, but it wont hump a .50 cal Barrett up to a position on the side of that hill.
And though Russian soldiers are often brought up, they aren’t used today. If they were so amazingly useful,,, why not?
Yep...same as letting them be firefighters
Maybe she will be in a group of openly homosexual soldiers and avoid all that?
Utterly depraved.
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