Sounds like they just found a great way to get rid of an undesirable 17% of their workforce. The world is evolving. Time to put away the clubs and stop dragging your knuckles on the ground. This sounds just like the whole police and fire tempest in a tea pot when women were "allowed" in those professions. No one lowered any standards, and women stepped up to the plate. Some males got their hormones hurt and quit. So?
as we have seen in the last week this voluntary military isn`t cutting the mustard anymore.how many times can you re-cycle the boots on the ground? these guys are not aluminum cans they cannot be used and used all over again.if we are going to be the police of the whole world,we will be in africa shortly,we have to bring back the draft.
"if women are assigned involuntarily to those jobs"
Yup this is the slippery slope. Say your daughter enlists to be a dental hygienist and she instead ends up slogging a rifle around. Worse what if something big happens and women get drafted into rifle-wo-man positions. I really don't think parents would be ok with this.
Feminists and old-fashion soldiers agree on one thing. If equality is what women want, equality is what they get. All girls will have to register for selective service at age 18 and be eligible for the draft. All men and women must have their head shaved, no exceptions for ladies, because it is a hygiene thing in war. Women will have to go through the same training regiment and same obstacle courses. No reducing requirements just because you are female because the battlefield requires soldiers who can handle the riggers of war. No going home from the battlefield because you decided getting pregnant is an easy way to stay alive. Ask Shannon Faulkner, the first cadet at the Citadel, what it takes to be a marine and how she lasted.
Any job should have a set of requirements and minimum physical abilities. Can you carry/drag a 180 lb soldier? can you carry a 80 lb pack for 20 miles? can you scale a wall with that pack on? In other words, can you fullfill the minimum job requirements?
Best way to eliminate the sex/gay/racist/religion argument is to just remove those check boxes from ALL applications, military and civilian. Let the employer hire the most qualified applicant with no knowledge of those criteria. Treat everyone equally, period.
Nice photo of an ARMY guy at the top of an article about Marines.
Having served in combat with the Marines (we, would sometimes have female Marines present), it always seemed that with the women, the quiet, unassuming ones always performed the best under the stress of combat, but the 'I'm a woman, hear me roar' types were ALWAYS the first to turn into blubbering emotional messes under fire. Not only would we have to deal with the enemy, bu we would have to use our Corpsman to take care of her at the same time, thus endangering our platoon.
I have no problem with women serving in combat, but they should be held to the same standards as us guys are, and if women want true equality, then they need to be included in Selective Service registration at the age of 18, like all males are.
On the battlefield mental and physical strength are required. If the women can measure up, so be it. But it's doubtful. I am a vet. I have yet to meet a combat-ready female. Perhaps she is out there, but she would be a very rare find. The safety valve here is the local commander. He is NOT going to jeopardize his unit just to be politically correct...regs or not.
When Pat Tillman left the NFL and the big dollars to enlist in Afghanistan, the liberals were all in agreement. Tillman was an idiot. Now the same liberals are cheering that the military will send their daughters into war. Are there any real men left on the left?
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Yup this is the slippery slope. Say your daughter enlists to be a dental hygienist and she instead ends up slogging a rifle around. Worse what if something big happens and women get drafted into rifle-wo-man positions. I really don't think parents would be ok with this.
Best way to eliminate the sex/gay/racist/religion argument is to just remove those check boxes from ALL applications, military and civilian. Let the employer hire the most qualified applicant with no knowledge of those criteria. Treat everyone equally, period.
Having served in combat with the Marines (we, would sometimes have female Marines present), it always seemed that with the women, the quiet, unassuming ones always performed the best under the stress of combat, but the 'I'm a woman, hear me roar' types were ALWAYS the first to turn into blubbering emotional messes under fire. Not only would we have to deal with the enemy, bu we would have to use our Corpsman to take care of her at the same time, thus endangering our platoon.
I have no problem with women serving in combat, but they should be held to the same standards as us guys are, and if women want true equality, then they need to be included in Selective Service registration at the age of 18, like all males are.
If you think all women are weaklings, think again. And it's a well known fact that women can take a lot more "emotionally", than men.
Who's Frank Herbert?