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To: FUSSBALL
Maybe so, but they should still be allowed to fight if they wish to.
7 posted on 11/01/2001 5:36:50 PM PST by Orion78
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To: Orion78
But see...Here is the main issue. For this to work the woman would have to go through exactly what the men do in training. And as of right now they do not..They would have to run the 2 miles in what I think it is 14 minutes or under. Few woman can do this. A certain amount of pushups in a minute (60 i believe) ...REAL pushups ,,,no knees down....


they all have to perform at the same level. If a man does not reach that level he does not pass through boot camp. He is voted off the island.


If this where to occur woman would say it was not fair.

12 posted on 11/01/2001 5:41:44 PM PST by FUSSBALL
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To: Orion78
Since when does any woman's "wish" override the safety and security of a military unit.

Get real you idiot.

You dont know the first thing about combat (please dont try and argue that out because I will detail disassemble you right here).
That being said neither you or anyone else without it (combat experience) is fully qualified to comment.

15 posted on 11/01/2001 5:44:00 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: Orion78
Regarding women in combat: it's not a question of "if they wish to" it's a question of "are they able to". I teach in a university. The ROTC corps frequently do their early morning runs along a road that is also my driving route to work. Guess who's always bringing up the rear completely exhausted? I won't keep you in suspense; it's the GALS. Again and again, women have proven that they simply can't function under anything like combat conditions. They can't lift and carry a comrad, for instance. Freeper airforce mechanics have reported that female airplane mechanics can't even lift their own toolboxes. We have been preserving a stupid, PC fiction up until recently that women can serve in combat. But battles are very often fought under absolutely horrible physical conditions. At very least, women don't possess the necessary upper body strength, and there is NO evidence, even after years of pretending otherwise, that it is possible for them to develop it.

The clintons were pursuing a double objective in insisting on female "equality" in the armed forces: to pay back their lefty, feminist supporters and to weaken the U.S. armed forces. That needs to stop and fast, too.

30 posted on 11/01/2001 6:04:49 PM PST by Irene Adler
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To: Orion78
"Maybe so, but they should still be allowed to fight if they wish to."

There is no 'right' to serve in the military. The military routinely discriminates in determining who is fit to serve and where they serve, and they do this for good reason. Saying that women should be allowed to fight (in a combat role) is like saying the military should be forced to accept people with disqualifying medical conditions and put them into combat.

97 posted on 11/01/2001 7:49:27 PM PST by AfghanAirShow
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