Chicks in combat? What's next?

Me

Metinks dey ver Caught mit der panzers down!

 

All other arguments aside, as a father and a Dad (there is a difference) all I can see coming out of this is more dead children.

 

Me thinks, that sometime soon they are going to have to reassess the draft registration. Won't that most likely cause an uproar?

 

I appreciate your concern, however, the truth of it is, that.....

Soldiers will die and become injured by the very nature of their employment both in and out of the combat zone, in peace and at war. The increase in casualties will depend more on decisions made by governments to enter into peace keeping, peace making; and hostile combat operations as beligerents than by whether the female to male ratio in some MOS categories change.

As a father and dad, I was concerned for my eldest son's welfare and safety during his East Timor deployment some ten years or so ago. I doubt I would have been any more or less concerned had it have been a daughter going instead. He was 20 something and volunteered for the billet on that tour. It was no business of mine to naysay his decision, regardless of how I felt about it. Had he have been an unwilling conscript, for some pointless unjust war being waged on behalf of some other power's economic, diplomatic and political interests, then I may have had a few things to say and do about the matter.

A country will not last long if it is held hostage to the fears and anxieties of the parents whose children would serve in the armed forces....it is precisely the strategy of the weaker side in asymetrical warfare to exploit that weakness. Terrorism and a long drawn out conflict with a steadily increasing butcher's bill, weigh heavily against democracracies who are held accountable at the ballot box. The question is...do the democracies have the endurance and the stomach for it?

 

Yard Dart, I agree 100%, the problem is all the Liberal Training has bypassed the common sense part of most brains. It has been drilled into ourselves and our kids for so long that most believe more in some type of "Equal Rights" more than survival in war.

That and the fact that very few are now tied to the land and working with animals on a every day basis so they do not see what nature does to aid in our survival in the past.
Yes it all ties together in our DNA as well as the animals we raise to feed us. IN doubt? Grab a calf, have it bawl real loud and if there is a Bull in the pasture he will beat the cow to you. Laugh if you feel the need but if you want a real world lesson then come on out and we'll test what I know is fact. BTW the bull wins every time, and the Bull would be dead in a real world struggle for food or survival because I would not take a chance on my life just to prove a point.

All the modern day training will break down in the wrong/right condition. Of course any death on the battle field will be called a battle death no matter if it caused by a bad decision due to hormones or that last stolen kiss when the Sarge was not looking.

Like I said before, there is already enough stress in war, no one needs to wonder if the person next to them is more interested in their latest battle field love interest more than their concern for their battle group.

Play all the Modern Day University psych games you want, DNA will win every time over "Professional Training" death will be the end result.

 

I speak the truth, if you can't handle it that is your problem.

 

"thoughts of my love interest" That's the problem, not thoughts but reactions to deeper inputs of our Id.


YMMV

 

Not an issue. Women can pee standing up with Go Girl | Go Girl Female Urination Device

I have been stationed with women for decades, and before there were commercial products, they took a transmission funnel, cut it at the correct angle and did what they needed to do.

This whole thing is a non issue as long as they do not create a separate set of standards for women. The bottom line is it does not matter what is in your DNA as long as you can pull your weight.

 

A recent documentary on board a USN Aircraft Carrier, if it could be seen right now, would tell more than all the "belittle" comments above.

In this USN approved piece about the inner workings of a Aircraft Deck Crew the body language and the daily actions of the mixed crew left no doubt that the main drive was not USN Crewman ship.

Then again most that see it will only think, how neat, she's sitting in his lap!

The love boat should not be part of the USN but recent pregnancy's say other things than training are going on in the ship. Loss of trained crew and cost of just transport home will never be revealed to us, but they are both facts of the modern Mixed Military.

Training saves live, petty squabbles that are best left "On the Beach" are now part of the OP Plans.

I'm just glad I'm not part of that crew. No doubt the Love Birds are happy that I am not their Commander also.

 

So, you're not speaking from first hand of your combat experience?

 

I figure if we aint fighting to protect women and children.....well I aint fighting period.

I wonder if a muslim who gets blown away by a female solider will still get his vergins??? Pretty sure it will piss the middle east off.

 

Like they need a reason?

 

That is basic PT. I am talking training TPOs for combat MOSs./Ratings. Although I have never liked a separate PT standard either.

Humping the same load over the same distance. That type of thing.

If they establish different criteria for women, then the problem is with leadership, not the women, and quite frankly if I was a woman, I would be pissed.