My position is reflected in the Marine Corps report on the subject, based on their experiment with women-only, mixed, and male only comparisons within the same unit that showed the idea will be (and already is) a disaster.
When it comes to ground combat, there is no such thing as "equality." When it comes to the Armed Forces today, there is no such thing as equality, either.
Women have more liberal appearance standards, lower physical qualification scores, their own facilities which continue to be gender separated; the typical female cannot march as far, as fast, as long as their typical male counterparts and there is the social component. Nor can they shoot as well.
(Yes, I've heard all the bullshit stories that begin with "I knew a woman who could kick every man's ass that's alive" and so forth. Sure. And I know of a 6'5" Pygmy, but that doesn't mean that's anywhere close to that is the norm... and the norm is what we need.)
In the barracks, you do not have situations where males and females share the same rooms, for example... although I don't understand why, given that in combat, they're going to be sharing the same tracks and foxholes and other facilities. Shouldn't that training and mind set inculcation start in the barracks?
Pregnancy is going to explode out there... at no cost to the female. The issues from this kind of inter-action are going to get people killed, reduce combat effectiveness and embolden our enemies.
At some point, some percentages of these women are going to be captured by people who view them as, well, women. And they ain't gonna like that at all.
But that's not all. THIS is the kind of thing that's going to spill blood. And who could possibly have seen this coming?
Except for me, of course.
Check out this picture:
First, it's illegal for a MARRIED service member to engage in a relationship.
Second, it's illegal for a squad leader to be in such a relationship with a subordinate.
Third, it's illegal for any person to engage in a relationship with any other person who is married.
This is in the garrison environment. Thrown together in the field environment?
Members of the other side of the family I married into... who have never spent a DAY in a ground combat unit, (or any other military unit, come to think of it... none of them thought highly enough of their country to serve it) accuse me of misogyny (behind my back, of course. None of them are possessed of the courage... or actual knowledge of ground combat... to do it to my face) primarily because the truth, if they happen to disagree with it, is a meaningless construct to the ignorant. (They'll get over it. Rest assured, *I* have)
In this case, it's the total waste resulting from reliance on those who simply will not, on the whole, be capable of cutting it in the ground combat environment.
The picture above merely documents a single element of the DOZENS of elements that make this a bad idea.... fresh from the "good idea fairy."
The biggest disappointment I have with General Mattis, Secretary of Defense, is that he hasn't rolled this insanity back.
And until full equality in every aspect is made standard (Same physical training scores, same hair/make-up standards, gender blind room assignments (after all, isn't it SUPPOSED to be "gender blind deployment?") same marksmanship standards and the same in EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF MILITARY LIFE to include court martialing these women who get pregnant the same way you'd court martial a male for making himself non-deployable... then this is the sad outcome of how it's going to be
Reduced combat effectiveness. Massively increased costs. Politically correct nonsense like the removal of urinals from our newest ships... reduced capabilities are going to be the order of the day where we will have to spend more men and a great deal more money to achieve the outcomes we, sadly, are GOING to be left with.
When it comes to ground combat, there is no such thing as "equality." When it comes to the Armed Forces today, there is no such thing as equality, either.
Women have more liberal appearance standards, lower physical qualification scores, their own facilities which continue to be gender separated; the typical female cannot march as far, as fast, as long as their typical male counterparts and there is the social component. Nor can they shoot as well.
(Yes, I've heard all the bullshit stories that begin with "I knew a woman who could kick every man's ass that's alive" and so forth. Sure. And I know of a 6'5" Pygmy, but that doesn't mean that's anywhere close to that is the norm... and the norm is what we need.)
In the barracks, you do not have situations where males and females share the same rooms, for example... although I don't understand why, given that in combat, they're going to be sharing the same tracks and foxholes and other facilities. Shouldn't that training and mind set inculcation start in the barracks?
Pregnancy is going to explode out there... at no cost to the female. The issues from this kind of inter-action are going to get people killed, reduce combat effectiveness and embolden our enemies.
At some point, some percentages of these women are going to be captured by people who view them as, well, women. And they ain't gonna like that at all.
But that's not all. THIS is the kind of thing that's going to spill blood. And who could possibly have seen this coming?
Except for me, of course.
Check out this picture:
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| THE first female 0311 (infantryman) in 1st Battalion/8th Marine Regiment |
First, it's illegal for a MARRIED service member to engage in a relationship.
Second, it's illegal for a squad leader to be in such a relationship with a subordinate.
Third, it's illegal for any person to engage in a relationship with any other person who is married.
Forth, BOTH of them are now going to get burned, meaning we, as taxpayers, wasted tens of thousands in training these two idiots to do their jobs
Fifth, what do you think chances of this happening on a deployment when lives are at stake might be?
You don't think his Marines don't know about this? You don't think this results in favoritism and all of the other cancers in a unit this kind of thing will inevitably cause?
This is in the garrison environment. Thrown together in the field environment?
Members of the other side of the family I married into... who have never spent a DAY in a ground combat unit, (or any other military unit, come to think of it... none of them thought highly enough of their country to serve it) accuse me of misogyny (behind my back, of course. None of them are possessed of the courage... or actual knowledge of ground combat... to do it to my face) primarily because the truth, if they happen to disagree with it, is a meaningless construct to the ignorant. (They'll get over it. Rest assured, *I* have)
They fail to understand (or care) that my position would be the same no matter WHAT was causing our military to be less effective, less efficient, and less capable than it used to be.
In this case, it's the total waste resulting from reliance on those who simply will not, on the whole, be capable of cutting it in the ground combat environment.
The picture above merely documents a single element of the DOZENS of elements that make this a bad idea.... fresh from the "good idea fairy."
The biggest disappointment I have with General Mattis, Secretary of Defense, is that he hasn't rolled this insanity back.
And until full equality in every aspect is made standard (Same physical training scores, same hair/make-up standards, gender blind room assignments (after all, isn't it SUPPOSED to be "gender blind deployment?") same marksmanship standards and the same in EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF MILITARY LIFE to include court martialing these women who get pregnant the same way you'd court martial a male for making himself non-deployable... then this is the sad outcome of how it's going to be
Reduced combat effectiveness. Massively increased costs. Politically correct nonsense like the removal of urinals from our newest ships... reduced capabilities are going to be the order of the day where we will have to spend more men and a great deal more money to achieve the outcomes we, sadly, are GOING to be left with.
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