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Comment on Women in Combat Roles by Big Daddy

Big Daddy — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:36:59 +0000

Get preggy while in service, immediate discharge. Let them come back in after they had the baby at reduced rank. Or something like that, the reduced rank thing will make them think twice, so to speak. If you want to become a mommy don’t even think you can be some type of combat mommy and get over on the system. Too many people getting over on the system in this country.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by angry mike

angry mike — Mon, 21 May 2012 11:02:09 +0000

Chandler is a POS.
Panetta tore DoD as director OMB in 93-94.
This is all politics and scheduled around the election.
F them and the horse they rode in on.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by Andrew Tuohy

Andrew Tuohy — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:16:57 +0000

I definitely agree with that…Pregnancy is unfortunately used by SOME women in the military to avoid deployments and so on.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by McThag

McThag — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:10:13 +0000

A practical consideration for the book, but not mentioned in it, would be the physical differences in stature might have required a different suit. I can see the MI putting some strict rules in place for how tall, and wide the recruits needed to be just so they didn’t fall outside the range the suits could be adjusted to. Not to mention the plumbing…

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by McThag

McThag — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:07:31 +0000

One teensy change I want to see (in addition to what you’ve said) if we were to gender integrate the military. Eliminate the no penalty medical discharge for getting pregnant. It’s the ONLY self inflicted medical condition that gets you out with an honorable discharge.

While this won’t cool the boy’s ardor, it will have a chilling effect on the girls, who are the gatekeepers of if sex is happening.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by Andrew Tuohy

Andrew Tuohy — Mon, 21 May 2012 07:03:31 +0000

Yeah, the book was awesome. I do not think I would have made it through the physical training. In the book, women were mentioned as being physiologically better suited to be pilots.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by Mike

Mike — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:54:35 +0000

With regard to integrated barracks, heck just integrated units; these are young, very physical people. What happens when the male gunner is hooking up with the female rifleman… after the grenadier was her regular guy? It’s not a knock on anybody, it’s pure biology IMO.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by Mike

Mike — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:52:23 +0000

You must mean the movie. Because in the (much, MUCH better) novel, the MI was all men because of the insanely high physical requirements.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:15:38 +0000

My only concern is the mental response of the men. IIRC there was a study done by the Israeli Military in which men were shown to behave recklessly and disobey orders when they saw their fellow female soldier injured.

IMO a breakdown in the chain of command isn’t a good thing… the military might have to do more research into how a female soldier affects the men rather than how she does her job. Training weeds out the incompetent.

Comment on Women in Combat Roles by James

James — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:41:43 +0000

Your argument seems to be “the average fit woman is 120 pounds, so all fit women are 120 pounds.” Clearly, you’ve never seen a tall, fit woman before. They do happen. And they do weigh in excess of 120 pounds.