{"id":36439,"date":"2013-06-28T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36439"},"modified":"2013-06-28T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T13:18:08","slug":"dempsey-to-combat-arms-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36439","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey to combat arms: Prove it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Rowan Scarborough, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/27\/special-operations-forces-are-worried-about-adding\/\">Washington Times<\/a> writes today that Chariman of the Joint Chiefs, Marty Dempsey, has moved past the point from which women will have to prove themselves equal to men in regards to assigning females to combat arms specialties;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ArmyGen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said that if a service wants to keep a job as a male-only occupation because of its high physical demands, the service will have to show why those tests should not be lowered to accommodate women.<\/p>\n<p>Tests of strength are particularly important to special operations. About 15,000 combat positions, a fraction of the 1.4 million active force, are subject to integration.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe only option now is to offer reasons why they can\u2019t do it,\u201d said an Army special operations veteran who believes U.S. Special Operations Command will cave to White House demands to include women. \u201cI haven\u2019t heard that anyone has the courage to say they can\u2019t do it, either. Maybe the new [military occupational specialty] can be 18P \u2014 Special Forces camp follower. Is that PC enough?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An ArmySpecial Forces soldier said the qualification course at Fort Bragg, N.C., to earn the Green Beret is so demanding that the Army will have to lower standards for some tasks in able for women to succeed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there you go. I&#8217;ve said since the beginning of this most recent series of discussions that the generals are going to do whatever it takes to please their political masters and it looks as if none of them have the courage to speak up. <\/p>\n<p>So where are these all-important veterans in Congress? Other than Duncan Hunter, I haven&#8217;t heard a peep out of them. You&#8217;d think that Miss Lindsay Graham who drags out his commission at every opportunity would stand up for future warriors who will have to fight the next war after substandard training. And where the Hell is John McCain, who understands the rigors of war more than most?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Rowan Scarborough, in the Washington Times writes today that Chariman of the Joint Chiefs, &hellip; <a title=\"Dempsey to combat arms: Prove it!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36439\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dempsey to combat arms: Prove it!<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36439","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=36439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}