{"id":32416,"date":"2012-10-16T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32416"},"modified":"2016-02-05T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T16:17:48","slug":"female-colonel-sues-military-to-include-women-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32416","title":{"rendered":"Female colonel sues military to include women in combat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ring knocker, Army Col. Ellen Haring, was disqualified from commanding a Female Engagement Team in Afghanistan and she’s now decided that a lawsuit against the Pentagon is the only way she can get more women on casualty lists in proportion to male combatants says the LA Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Throughout her 28-year career, the lawsuit alleges, “the career options available to Col. Haring, as compared to a man who graduated in her [West Point] class, have been limited.” The exclusion policy “institutionalizes the unequal treatment of women,” said the suit, filed pro bono by a Washington law firm.<\/p>\n

That discrimination culminated for Haring with the special operations job, she says.<\/p>\n

“There was this open acknowledgment that they knew they were violating the combat exclusion policy,” Haring said of her training at Ft. Bragg. “It was decided, well, we’re going to support this program and not worry about the exclusion policy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Haring challenges a Pentagon contention that women are not able to carry a wounded 200-pound man off the battlefield. She said her husband and son, a weightlifter, both said that neither would be able to accomplish that feat.<\/p>\n

“We’re being held to standards that most men can’t meet,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s totally unfair that she can’t carry a wounded 200-pound man off the battlefield. But not as unfair as it is to that wounded 200-pound man who just discovered the fact that his life depends on someone who thought that a lawsuit would qualify her for a waiver to having to actually perform that task.<\/p>\n

Like I’ve said, I’m all for women being given the opportunity to serve in combat if they’re willing to subject themselves to the same training and meet the same standards as the men. The Pentagon is obviously trying to integrate women into combat assignments, but, the only two female volunteers for the Marine Infantry Officers have dropped out, for whatever reasons. That doesn’t mean that all women aren’t qualified – it only means that the Pentagon needs a lot of time to study this process. Whining about it in the courts isn’t going to speed things along. You’d think a West Point grad would understand that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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