{"id":36803,"date":"2013-07-26T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36803"},"modified":"2013-07-26T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:18:15","slug":"pentagon-discusses-separate-training-for-female-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36803","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon discusses separate training for female soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobo sends a link to the Washington Times<\/a> in which they report that some “senior officers” hinted to Congress that they’re contemplating separate male & female training for combat arms positions. Just looking at the issue from that perspective it almost makes sense, until you read what members of the House Armed Services subcommittee said about the plan;<\/p>\n

The idea was presented by Rep. Niki Tsongas.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo put in place a training regimen that is ill-suited to maximizing the success of women is not really the outcome any of us want to see,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does “maximizing the success of women” mean? Either she is saying that men are going to hold women back, like in “GI Jane”, or that they’re going to hold women to a different standard than men in order to make sure that more women qualify for combat arms jobs.<\/p>\n

Army Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg, deputy chief of staff for personnel, agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking at that, and we\u2019re not looking at it just for the integration of women,\u201d Gen. Bromberg testified. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at it for the total soldier, because just as you have a 110-pound male who may lack some type of physiological capability or physical capability, he or she may both need to be trained differently. We\u2019re trying to expand our understanding of how we train.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I was a 128-pound private and I’ll admit that training was probably more difficult for me than for, say, Tim Martin, who was built like a bull and went on to be one of the first Delta soldiers. But the standard remained the same for both of us because the standard doesn’t change for bullets. <\/p>\n

Now, if the General means “trained differently” to reach the same standard of performance, well, that’s fine, but if they’re talking about defining the standard down to compensate for their size and ability, that’s just wrong. Combat has a single standard, irrespective of size and gender, and that’s how they should be trained.<\/p>\n

[Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Milstead Jr. said] \u201cThey need to be nurtured different. They just need different steps as they go. They end up in the same place, the United States Marines.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t know that the Marines knew how to use “nurture” in a complete sentence, and I’m sure that there are some DIs who would disagree with the General that “nurturing” is in their job descriptions. And it’s a disturbing trend in the language that indicates to me that the standards are going to plummet along with the combat effectiveness of the total force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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