WOMEN IN COMBAT - DEPT. OF DEFENSE IS DELUSIONAL

Some advice on women in combat from a female veteran

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/27/some-advice-on-women-in-combat-from-a-female-veteran/

HotAir – Jazz Shaw – 1/27/2013

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President Obama and his cohorts did a shameful thing last week that, if continued, I believe will be a total disaster to our Army and Marine Corps infantry units and special operations units. Sentry, the author of the below article is a very wise lady who explains very well, the limitations of women and the adverse effects they would have in a ground battle against an enemy army of men.

There are many other military duties that women can do very well, like crew aircraft. Women were not in the cockpit during my Air Force career, but I have met quite a number of present day lady fighter pilots whose male counterparts have told me could be aces.

With the mechanical and hydraulic controls that modern fighters have, muscle strength is not a problem, so they can excel as well as their male counterparts if they have the necessary skills. Many others changes that the now president has made will also prove detrimental, but none with so much potential to be totally disastrous to the morale and efficiency of our armed force as females engaging in hand to hand mortal combat.---

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"I’m a female veteran. I deployed to Anbar Province, Iraq. When I was active duty, I was 5’6, 130 pounds, and scored nearly perfect on my PFTs. I naturally have a lot more upper body strength than the average woman: not only can I do pull-ups, I can meet the male standard. I would love to have been in the infantry. And I still think it will be an unmitigated disaster to incorporate women into combat roles. I am not interested in risking men’s lives so I can live my selfish dream.

We’re not just talking about watering down the standards to include the politically correct number of women into the unit. This isn’t an issue of “if a woman can meet the male standard, she should be able to go into combat.” The number of women that can meet the male standard will be miniscule–I’d have a decent shot according to my PFTs, but dragging a 190-pound man in full gear for 100 yards would DESTROY me–and that miniscule number that can physically make the grade AND has the desire to go into combat will be facing an impossible situation that will ruin the combat effectiveness of the unit.

First, the close quarters of combat units make for a complete lack of privacy and EVERYTHING is exposed, to include intimate details of bodily functions.

Second, until we succeed in completely reprogramming every man in the military to treat women just like men, those men are going to protect a woman at the expense of the mission.
Third, women have physical limitations that no amount of training or conditioning can overcome.
Fourth, until the media in this country is ready to treat a captured/raped/tortured/mutilated female soldier just like a man, women will be targeted by the enemy without fail and without mercy.

I saw the male combat units when I was in Iraq. They go outside the wire for days at a time. They eat, sleep, urinate and defecate in front of each other and often while on the move. There’s no potty break on the side of the road outside the wire. They urinate into bottles and defecate into MRE bags. I would like to hear a suggestion as to how a woman is going to urinate successfully into a bottle while cramped into a humvee wearing full body armor. And she gets to accomplish this feat with the male members of her combat unit twenty inches away. Volunteers to do that job? Do the men really want to see it? Should they be forced to?
Everyone wants to point to the IDF as a model for gender integration in the military. No, the IDF does not put women on the front lines. They ran into the same wall the US is about to smack into: very few women can meet the standards required to serve there.

The few integrated units in the IDF suffered three times the casualties of the all-male units because the Israeli men, just like almost every other group of men on the planet, try to protect the women even at the expense of the mission. Political correctness doesn’t trump thousands of years of evolution and societal norms. Do we really WANT to deprogram that instinct from men?
. . . women tend to be shorter than men.

Men, with more muscular legs and bones that carry more muscle mass than any woman can condition herself to carry, can jump higher and farther than women.
When you’re going over a wall in Baghdad that’s ten feet high, you have to be able to be able to reach the top of it in full gear and haul yourself over. That’s not strength per se, that’s just height and the muscular explosive power to jump and reach the top. Having to get a boost from one of the men so you can get up and over could get that man killed.

That muscle mass is also a shock absorber. . . .  a woman is more likely to go down because she can’t absorb the concussion as well as a man can. . . . in hand-to-hand combat the average man is going to destroy the average woman because the average woman is smaller, period. Muscle equals force in any kind of strike you care to perform.

Lastly, this country and our military are NOT prepared to see what the enemy will do to female POWs. The Taliban, AQ, insurgents, jihadis, whatever you want to call them, they don’t abide by the Geneva Conventions and treat women worse than livestock.

Google THOMAS TUCKER and KRISTIAN MENCHACA if you want to see what they do to our men (and don’t google it unless you have a strong stomach) and then imagine a woman in their hands.

ONE Thomasina Tucker is going to mean the men in the military will move heaven and earth to protect women, never mind what it does to the mission.
I present you with Exhibit A: Jessica Lynch. Male lives will be lost trying to protect their female comrades.

I say again, I would have loved to be in the infantry. I think I could have done it physically, I could’ve met almost all the male standards (jumping aside), and I think I’m mentally tough enough to handle whatever came.

BUT I WOULD NEVER DO THAT TO THE MEN. I WOULD NEVER SACRIFICE THE MISSION FOR MY OWN DESIRES. AND I WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH MYSELF IF SOMEONE DIED BECAUSE OF ME.
- Sentry"

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