{"id":30104,"date":"2012-05-24T08:39:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30104"},"modified":"2012-05-24T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T12:39:30","slug":"the-conundrum-of-the-women-combat-limits-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30104","title":{"rendered":"The conundrum of the women combat limits lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me say at the outset that I think this case is fine.\u00a0 The combat exclusion for women is kind of a dodge anyway, because it isn’t actually followed.\u00a0 Which is not to say I think women should be SF or anything else.\u00a0 But last month when I was running around, I was doing so with two wonderful young ladies from a CA unit that were patroling with the INF guys.\u00a0 (SSG Booth and I forget the other young ladies name.)\u00a0 So, I think they have a point that the policy isn’t followed anyway.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s the story on the case:<\/a><\/p>\n

Two female soldiers asked a federal judge to throw out the U.S. military\u2019s restrictions on women in combat, claiming the policy violates their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n

U.S. Army reservists Jane Baldwin and Ellen Haring, in a lawsuit filed today in Washington<\/a>, said policies excluding them from assignments \u201csolely because they are women\u201d violate their right to equal protection guaranteed by the Constitution\u2019s 5th Amendment. The complaint names Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Secretary John McHugh as defendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis limitation on plaintiffs\u2019 careers restricts their current and future earnings, their potential for promotion and advancement, and their future retirement benefits,\u201d the women said in the complaint filed by Christopher Sipes of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m curious to any who support the women in this case to explain to me though how the differing PT standards would not be a good cause of action for men?\u00a0 If you take a male and a female service member with the exact same background across the board, and give them the same exact raw numbers on the PT test, the woman will get promoted, and the man will get flagged for PT failure.\u00a0\u00a0 Would not the differing PT standard tilting towards women not violate the men’s right to equal protection guaranteed by the Constitution’s 5th Amendment?<\/p>\n

It’s not a novel thing here, and I know that as well, but I’ve still never heard a good articulation as to why women excluded from combat units is an injustice, but women’s lower PT standards isn’t ALSO an injustice.<\/p>\n

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