{"id":28684,"date":"2012-02-09T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28684"},"modified":"2012-02-09T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:51:16","slug":"expanding-womens-roles-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28684","title":{"rendered":"Expanding women’s roles in combat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t what I can say about this I haven’t already said but here’s the story at Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Citing defense officials, the AP reported that the new rules are expected to continue the long-held prohibition that prevents women from serving as infantry, armor and special operations forces. But they will formally allow women to serve in other jobs at the battalion level, which until now had been considered too close to combat.<\/p>\n

AP said the changes would formally allow women to be assigned to a battalion and serve in jobs such as medics, intelligence, police or communications officers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About twenty years ago I wrote a letter to the S&S when the military was contemplating this move after the Gulf War. I said then, like I say now; that’s fine and dandy with me, except that if they’re going to start putting women closer to the fight, they have a responsibility to train them for it. That means eliminating gender-specific standards for training. If they’re going to do men’s jobs in men’s environment, they have to do it to the same standard.<\/p>\n

Combat doesn’t discriminate. Bullets don’t don’t go less far or slower for women.<\/p>\n

From Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“We believe that it’s very important to explore ways to offer more opportunities to women in the military,” Pentagon press secretary George Little said Thursday. “This review has been thorough and extensive,” with input from all branches of the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not a matter of career opportunities, it’s more related whether you’re going to train to an acceptable standard that doesn’t discriminate. This isn’t the movies where men are trying to keep women out of our boy’s club. Generally, when women get trained to a man’s standard, they cry that they’re being treated unfairly. <\/p>\n

Take that cow, Shannon Faulkner, who spent years battling for her chance at The Citadel who dropped out after a few days because she thought she was going to be treated differently and spent not one minute preparing for the rigors of the college. In a 2009 interview<\/a> she still blamed men for her one week tour of duty;<\/p>\n

She spent just one week at the Citadel. During that time, Faulkner battled extreme physical and mental stress, and passed much of the week in the infirmary, suffering severe dehydration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, you don’t get dehydrated from stress, you get dehydrated from not being prepared. Women every where are celebrating this decision by the Pentagon, but they need to understand that there’s a price still to be paid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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