{"id":23529,"date":"2011-05-21T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23529"},"modified":"2011-05-21T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T12:04:16","slug":"legislation-to-allow-women-in-combat-specialties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23529","title":{"rendered":"Legislation to allow women in combat specialties"},"content":{"rendered":"

That fake Mexican woman in Congress has decided to amend the Defense budget with a bill that would lift restrictions that prevent women from serving in combat Military Occupational Specialties in the Marines and the Army according to the Air Force Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, has prepared an amendment repealing the policy that prevents women from serving in front-line combat units in the Army and Marine Corps.<\/p>\n

The House is scheduled to take up HR 1540, the 2012 defense authorization bill, next week with plans to pass the $689 billion policy bill by Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

Sanchez\u2019s amendment would implement a recommendation made earlier this year by the Military Leadership Diversity Committee, a group of current and retired officers, noncommissioned officers and civilians, which determined that combat exclusion laws hurt advancement opportunities for women. The final report of the commission was due at the end of March but has been delayed until later this year because defense officials said it needed more study.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know what else hurts advancement opportunities for women? Death. I know that the “group of current and retired officers, noncommissioned officers and civilians” included no one who actually participated in combat while in uniform. They couldn’t have if they arrived at the conclusion that success in career advancement has priority over the forces’ safety.<\/p>\n

Every time I hear this discussion, I flash on Shannon Faulkner who fought for years a legal battle to get into The Citadel, and then when she did, she crapped out because she’d gotten so bovine-like that she couldn’t meet the standards. In other words, she expected to be carried on the backs of the corps of cadets through graduation.<\/p>\n

Combat has one standard and there’s no room for weak backs. I’ll admit that there are men who can’t meet the standards…I chaptered three of them before we went to Desert Storm. <\/p>\n

Speaking of Desert Storm, let me tell you about our support battalion’s ambulance platoon. Out of 22 members, 10 got pregnant in the two months between our notification and deployment so they couldn’t deploy. Was that a readiness issue? After we deployed to the desert, some of the members of that same platoon drove around to the battalions selling sex at $75 a pop out of the back of their ambulances.<\/p>\n

Are all women in the military like that? Certainly not. I’ve known some women who could run circles around many men and who were as chaste as the day is long, but all it takes is one Shannon Faulkner to screw up an infantry platoon’s proficiency and performance. And we all know the politically correct crap that goes along with “the first [insert minority ID here] person to…” in the military. <\/p>\n

This is completely wrong-headed, and the fake Mexican congresswoman is just doing this to ingratiate herself with feminist groups and the anti-military and social experimentation segments of her constituency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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