Chicks in combat? What's next?

Permission? I could care less.

Just stating the facts of the world in which we all live.

And you think your life is any different than mine, well except for the fact that you have never been in a combat enviroment.

 

Well either they make it or they don't. As long as the standards are based on the job. Armor plates and ammo do not get lighter based on your DNA.

 

In combat one either keeps up and carries their load or others may get killed picking up their slack. If a soldier can not keep up, as they will not be left behind the unit slows down. Late for their mission or too slow to get away; either is bad. Depending on the mission a soldier may carry ~40 to 150 pounds; an Army wife posted "he" says 85. The soldier carries it to the objective. Walk all day then go to a basic combat load and go out on patrol all night; then walk all day.

It isn't getting into combat, it is getting through training to prove you are capable or not.

It is a warrior culture, one either has it physically and mentally or they don't. The higher one gets up the warrior food chain; the tougher the selection process becomes.

None of the above has anything to do with one's gender.

 

Ahh the old one liner approach, best done by a Moderator, name calling by suggestion. I also add this is typical when some wish to start a pissing war and get the non modertor thrown off.

Keep it clean, keep it civil, leave the name calling for the home base.

What I see is yet one more entitlement group. You know the type, ignore all the facts and just because I want in the Mil then it's my right group.

What is happening is another entitlement group wanting special compensation that reduces our Battle efficiency, and a program that cost more than it's worth.

Just figure higher taxes and reduced productivity. Is that really what you want?

 

Huh!

DNA is what makes you stronger, or not, male or female it comes from your parents.

 

Let me put it this way, you can count chromosomes if you want, all I care about is if the person standing next to me can do the job. If they can't they need to find another line of work, if they can then nothing else matters.

 

Agreed which means no mods in the exams, any exams.

 

Combat Babes,,,could make a good TV show

 

I was a war fighter once, glorified light Infantry, CIB and more than two tours of Vietnam. Typically, a kid, my grandson wanted to follow in my footsteps. I told him what it is really like; not the Rambo bad butt baloney. Not the bang bang shoot them up stuff, but how dirt rolls into little splinters under your skin. Clogging a comb is as easy as running through your hair. How the smell of your feet will make you gag. Don't ask about your pits or crotch.

 

A Gillette double edged razor and a comb was used to cut hair. If one was lucky a shower was a lister bag hung in the sun.

Count your blessings as home wasn't an option for a year.

 

I remember proudly wearing the smell o f my trade, even the Bar Maids knew what we did for a living.

Usually took a few weeks back home before the smell was gone, time and a lot of soap and bleach.

 

Nothing quite like the tropics to make nasty worse. In retrospect, even the good times stunk.

We had DX or direct combat exchange; when we came in we traded our clothes for new. An endless circle of nature walks followed by a few days in. The easiest way to spot Infantry in base camp was new fatigues, no patches and wearing flip flops.

It is weird what one learns after so many years.

 

Yard Dart, when were you in Haiti?