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..."The days of Rambo are over," said Major General Bennet Sacolick of the Special Operations Command. "We're looking for smart, qualified operators. There's a new dynamic ... We're looking for young men that can speak and learn a foreign language, understand culture, work with indigenous populations and (have) culturally tuned manners."
"The defining characteristic of our operators are intellect. And when people fail in the special forces qualification course, predominantly they fail because they're not doing their homework," he said.
Fully integrating women poses different challenges to different services. Fewer than 1 percent of Air Force jobs are still off-limits to women, while nearly a third of Marine Corps posts are closed.
U.S. Special Operations Command appeared to have the greatest reservations about how to proceed with opening up.
"We don't deploy in large formations. I mean, we send a 12-man (team) ... into very austere, remote environments by themselves," Sacolick said. "That complicates integration, and that's our concern."
The preparations for integrating women into previously all-male units appeared to have as much to do with acceptance by the men as it did with physical performance by women.
"There is an understanding that ... the studies that they're talking about across all dimensions, not just physical, but exactly the behavioral, the social, the cultural, takes time to do," Beyler said....
Noticed you didn't quote this part of your article:
Isn't it interesting that the very units who proportionately see the most ground combat seem to also the very ones who think that this has the potential to be an amazingly bad idea?
Noticed you didn't quote this part of your article:
Isn't it interesting that the very units who proportionately see the most ground combat seem to also the very ones who think that this has the potential to be an amazingly bad idea?
.......... "I think the key is setting it up for success and making sure that they have time to do it right," said Juliet Beyler, director of Officer and Enlisted Personnel Management at the Pentagon.'
Pentagon unveils plans for moving women into combat roles
It's about time - though this smells a lot of 'hurry up and wait' to me.
But it's progress.
They said that about integrating black people too.
To quote an awesome-but-fictional admiral, "they got over it."
They said that about integrating black people too.
To quote an awesome-but-fictional admiral, "they got over it."
They said that about integrating black people too.
To quote an awesome-but-fictional admiral, "they got over it."
Problem: Racism is cultural, and has to be socially imprinted. It's actually pretty recent, only a century or two old. Sex, however, is deeply biological. In fact, it turns out that the two share almost nothing in common outside of the fact that they stem from variant genotypes.
There is a good reason why everyone who is in a position to know, knows better.
That lame ass argumemt again? Did the PT standards have to be lowered for black men? They dudn't? I rest my case.
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