No problem, her squad will haul this for her...
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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Sucks to be those paratroopers humping all that useless shit around.
And you might want to notice that I also included a rather sarcastic alternative.
As to the requirements being altered, that is de facto discrimination. My assumption -- albeit tongue-in-cheek -- is that there is one set of rules for both men and women, which we all know is not the case.
Now if it doesn't fit in their purses they can just leave it behind.
Meanwhile today, the USS Carter Hall an LSD is out of service. Sugar britches is missing. Her boots and a note were found on deck. Massive search for her carcass. Followed by the relief of duty of several officers for harassing her, not noticing she was depressed, etc etc.
She was as good as an enemy sub today.
Aside from what you might think, Infantry still marches across terrain with full combat load.
And when she decided she doesn’t like it all she has to do is.......get pregnant.
Why?
A lesbo in the military? Unheard of!!!
And bladder. Forget the periods, what about when she has to pee?
No problem, her squad will haul this for her...
It is somewhat funny what feminism and confusion in society have brought us. What a sad, pathetic joke. People will die because of this PC degeneracy and delusion. LIBs are truly mentally ill.
“And bladder. Forget the periods, what about when she has to pee?”
Twice every hour.
There seem to be a lot of lesbians named Tammy.
The requirements are already different physically for men and women in the army. They have a whole different set of physical exercises, and longer times, to do runs and obstacle courses. And can go around obstacles if needed.
“ISIS Pin-up Girl”
More like pinned-down, if you get my drift.
Tacky, but needed to be said.
The sacrifices that any soldier makes in any war deserve the highest of honors. You cant be MORE dead in one war than another. But nothing in living memory compares to the casualty rates of WWII. The peak period, from June of 1944 to February of 1945 in the ETO was so mercifully brief, that it didn’t imprint in the national concsiousness as the far lower rate in Vietnam did. But consider that nearly a third of the 65 divisions in the Pacific and European theaters suffered 100% or more casualties. Their regimental staffs saw front line units obliterated three to six times over. To deal with this problem there were never enough infantrymen coming from the states. Replacement centers continually reassigned artillerymen, machine gunners, cooks, and clerks to infantry duties. The situation in Europe became so severe that rear area units in France and Great Britain were tasked to supply soldiers for retraining as infantrymen. The problem was so acute that even the rigid racial segregation policy of the US Army was challenged. The Army even semi-integrated white rifle companies with black volunteer rifle platoons to alleviate the shortages. Those soldiers suffering battle fatigue came off the line for a few days for clean uniforms, bathing, hot food, and sleep. However, scarcity compelled their repeated return until crippling wounds, mental breakage, death, or victory brought final relief.
For example the 4th and 29th Infantry landed on D-Day and suffered about 500% battle casualties in their rifle platoons during the eleven months until VE-Day. Added to these numbers were half again as many non-battle human wrecks debilitated by trench foot, frost bite, pneumonia, hernia, heart disease, arthritis, etc. Many never returned to duty. In the jungles of the Pacific, non-combat losses often exacted a greater price. But somehow the infantry crossed Europe and the Pacific and always remained in the forefront of attacks.
The reason today’s heroic and dedicated guys can pull all these multiple tours of duty in the Middle East is that the odds of survival are so much greater than WWII. NO ONE in the front line infantry of WW II would have survived two or three full tours of fighting in the conditions of the Normandy hedgerows, the Huertegen Forest, the Liri Valley and Monte Cassino in Italy, the Ardennes campaign or Anzio
Much has been made of the fact that grunts in Nam and the Middle East often face more front line firefights than their counterparts in WW II. That’s because so many of the latter did not survive long enough to amass a combat record. They were killed, wounded or POW’s before too long. I am a grunt who saw hard fighting on the DMZ against the very tough NVA often dug into bunker lines. While we were hard hit from time to time, it was NOTHING like those grunts in WW II faced.
But again ALL RESPECT and gratitude to any soldier who serves honorably at the sharp end in any war. We can never honor them enough, and nothing I have said here is meant to denigrate that truth. I am merely trying for a bit of context and perspective.
She will be given special treatment, rushed through training, then promoted so there is zero chance she will ever see combat.
She will graduate from OSUT and all the networks will be on parade at the Infantry Museum to record the historic graduation. She will be assigned to an Infantry battalion and as soon as the media have disappeared, she will become the Adjutant’s driver and she will be in charge of making coffee in the TOC. When the battalion gets deployment orders, she will discover to be pregnant and the Sergeant Major will have to find a replacement.
If she can pass the tests, do everything the other applicants can do, make the grade FULLY, and carry her load in all respects, than stop knocking her. You naysayers all sound like a bunch of p@ssies me.
She’s a friggin stud if she can make the grade, and maybe she can’t. But the fact that she’s going to give it her best is awesome. So how about supporting this brave young AMERICAN woman who’s got bigger balls than almost all of you tough guys who are knocking her. F@ck diversity, she’s a brave, tough, patriotic stud, and I hope she can cut it—no freebies or shortcuts.
If she fails, how about admiring the massive guts she’s got for trying to make it on one of the highest levels within the greatest military on earth?
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