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BLUE FOOTED BOOBIES
It’s
not all about qualification. I’m speaking as a female Marine Iraq war
vet who did serve in the combat zone doing entry checkpoint duty in
Fallujah, and we worked with the grunts daily for that time.
When
I deployed, we’d hardly been in the country a few weeks before one of
our females had to be sent home because she’d gotten pregnant
All the branches still have different standards
for females
and males. Why? Because most women wouldn’t even qualify to be in the
military if they didn’t have separate standards. Men and women are
different, but those pushing women into combat don’t want to admit that
truth.
They huff and puff about how women can do
whatever men can do,
but it just ain’t so. We’re built differently, and it doesn’t matter
that one particular woman could best one particular man. The best woman
is still no match for the best man, and most of the men she’d be
fireman-carrying off the battlefield will be at least 100 lbs heavier
than her with their gear on.
Women are often great shooters but can’t run in
50-80 lbs of gear as
long, hard, or fast as men. Military training is hard enough on
men’s bodies; it’s harder on women’s. And until women stop
menstruating, there will always be an uphill battle for staying level
and strong at all times. No one wants to talk about the fact that
in the days before a woman’s cycle, she loses half her strength, to say
nothing of the emotional ups and downs that affect judgment. And how
would you like fighting ... –
From a Female Combat Vet
James
Webb's seminal argument (Women
Can't Fight),
about women in the military academies, covered much of the same ground
in 1979.
Plebes
do not "brace up" in the mess hall or in the corridors of Bancroft
Hall. It is now a punishment, limited to fifteen minutes maximum, to
require plebes to do what they once did as a basic activity for a year:
stand at attention.
....one first-classman I spoke to was reprimanded by his company
commander during the first week of academic year, traditionally the
most rigorous week of the entire year for plebes, because he had
"upset" a female plebe. JAMES
WEBB
A Lt. Cdr friend, who was Naval Academy staff, told me that the
fallout had made it
a career ending decision to even discuss women at the Academy.
Women in
combat had yet to occur, but of course you could read the tea
leaves. Influential Democrat Rep Pat Schroeder had made full
integration of women into all levels of military service her personal
war.
But that's not want to say about that picture.
If you haven't already thought it yourself, the point is wasted.
That picture says everything.
Think Blue
Footed Booby
at mating
time The
human male is in mating mode 365 days a year. You (men) can
almost feel the tensions created here. You've anticipated the
man-code
violations that must be dealt with here. The problems are
deep, and
constitute a potentially dangerous situation in any combat
theater.
If we must have women in combat for PC reasons, then form Amazon
battalions.
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Aside - Barn Army personnel are excluded, and are
encouarged to co-mingle when approoptiate.
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