Women allowed in combat rolls

**SovietDooM** · 01-24-13, 03:37 PM

I don't have an article, it's just been flying around tv news today.

Well the idea of limiting women in combat rolls based on meeting physical requirments rather then simply because they are a women, great.

I've heard talk that they will have to request to be put into those position rather then placed there.

Don't like the idea of combat is needed so women can move up in rank.

I hope folks consider the sky high likelihood that they are going to be raped if captured.
Better hold on to Roe v Wade.

Thoughts?

**Xavsnipe** · 01-24-13, 05:20 PM

I have no idea what you´re talking about because I do not understand the way you write your sentences.

**deathgodusmc** · 01-24-13, 05:28 PM

Yeah i read about this earlier but i thought it was more about they were considering the idea. Anyway i think its a bad idea.

**~BigTymer~** · 01-24-13, 05:41 PM

So, now Bill notices Dave in the fox hole. More Bill's will notice Christy in the fox hole. Makes the fox hole sound a little bit better

So what's next, women 6 months pregnant on the front lines? 6 week maternity leave? PTO for PMS?

If a 5'2 130lb woman is in hand to hand combat with a 6'3 230lb man, who wins?

**deputyfestus** · 01-24-13, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by deathgodusmc

Yeah i read about this earlier but i thought it was more about they were considering the idea. Anyway i think its a bad idea.

It'd beat the shit outta having say; you or Xav in the same foxhole with me. "Excuse me is that your bayonet or are you just happy to see me." That brings a whole new meaning to combat ROLLS.

**deathgodusmc** · 01-24-13, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by ~BigTymer~

So, now Bill notices Dave in the fox hole. More Bill's will notice Christy in the fox hole. Makes the fox hole sound a little bit better

So what's next, women 6 months pregnant on the front lines? 6 week maternity leave? PTO for PMS?

If a 5'2 130lb woman is in hand to hand combat with a 6'3 230lb man, who wins?

They already get a shit ton of leave for that.

**SovietDooM** · 01-24-13, 05:51 PM

Here you go xav, Google Translate

el you'o want'o el ingles to'o el spanish'o

**Xavsnipe** · 01-24-13, 06:17 PM

Thanks Soviet.

To show you my gratitude, here you go:

Basic grammar for ESL kids

**Xavsnipe** · 01-24-13, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by SovietDooM

Here you go xav, Google Translate

el you'o want'o el ingles to'o el spanish'o

lol Google Translate doesn´t work for abhorrently shitty grammar, Soviet. Got any other website I could use?

**Ranger10** · 01-24-13, 06:29 PM

My sister was selected to participate in a pilot program about a year ago, where she trained with the Special Forces selection trainees. She passed everything they did (she's badass). Now that this is coming out, I'm sure that Panetta green lit this because of her success along with the other candidates that passed. Very "G.I. Jane". Having said that, she recognized there were severe drawbacks to women in front line combat. She is now a DI, and expecting her second child.

In all honesty, its not the women who are not strong enough, its the men. I have a good friend who was in the Israeli military, and they tried women in combat in the 70's. Bad, bad move. Even they admitted it. Men have deep, deep routed issues when they see a woman all blow to hell and back. The Israeli's did studies on it. Bad stuff.

It wasn't that a woman couldn't pull a trigger, or even carry the combat weight like any scrawny soldier could, but rather that the soldier became emotionally and unrealistically attached to the female soldiers. Women can withstand more pain, and even higher G-forces. It was so bad that the males soldiers would often mourn the fallen females to the detriment of the mission. It's already incredibly difficult as a soldier to bury your fallen male brothers, but when its a women, apparently it was even worse.

It disrupts unit cohesion he said, and forces men to deal with the added emotions of perhaps falling in love with one of their female soldiers (and vice versa). And when you're hunkered down in he field, in a foxhole, you can see how the camaraderie that would exist between two men could potentially disintegrate into emotions less easily controlled. That's one reason why the military didn't want gays in the military; it was for the same reason. While I don't care that gays serve, I don't really like the idea of women in the front lines of combat. If that is indeed what this new policy is all about.