{"id":33805,"date":"2013-01-25T07:34:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33805"},"modified":"2013-01-25T07:48:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T11:48:43","slug":"tah-on-cnn-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33805","title":{"rendered":"TAH on CNN again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Smith from CNN<\/a> called yesterday and we chatted about women in the military…what else, right? <\/p>\n

And it’s one echoed by Jonn Lilyea, a former infantry sergeant who now publishes a military blog, “This Ain’t Hell.” Lilyea, who fought in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, said he believes physical standards will be relaxed “in order to force the acceptance of women in the combat arms specialties.”<\/p>\n

“I know it’s an eventuality, because the social scientists at the Pentagon are going to want to see numbers that get accepted in there so they can show how just the whole thing is,” he said.<\/p>\n

Dempsey said the services can still recommend closing a particular specialty or unit to women — but “They have to explain why, and I think there will be the right amount of scrutiny on that.” And Lilyea said he wasn’t reassured by Dempsey’s insistence that the brass is supportive.<\/p>\n

“I’m sure they all stood and saluted and said ‘Yes sir’ and marched out smartly, but I don’t think they’re all 100% behind it,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mentioned that the chiefs did the same thing for DADT – the chairman and the Secretary of Defense publicly claimed that ll of the services were on board, but then we found out later that there was some dissension. Anyone who spent a day in the military knows that this will create more headaches than it’s worth. Remember the huge dust-up a few years ago when General Anthony Cucolo tried to make pregnancy a court martial offense<\/a> in Iraq during a war? Yeah, well, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.<\/p>\n

And, John sends us a link to a Tweet by Valerie Jarret<\/a> yesterday. While the boys at the Defense Department is trying to send women into combat, Jarret is trying rally support for her cause;<\/p>\n

\"Jarret<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Kind of incongruous, isn’t it? Will the Taliban be forced to abide by the Violence Against Women Act?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Smith from CNN called yesterday and we chatted about women in the military…what else, right? … TAH on CNN again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}