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British female soldiers getting pregnant in Iraq and Afghanistan - Digital Journal: Your News Network
US Army covers up an ‘embarrassment’ (Pregnancies)
It happens routinely enough to be considered a problem on many fronts. It causes sexual tension, it often involves married men who have wives back home, and it's a major distraction. I can't imagine a guy being on the battlefield worrying about the women he's sleeping with who is also on the battlefield.
It's just ridiculous and unnecessary. It has no business on the battlefield and it's commonplace enough that the repercussions of the behavior both on the home front and on the battlefield are too significant to ignore.
If I am not missing anything, it is 102 British women pregnant out of 5600 women deployed, or 1.8 %. I don't consider that a significant problem.
Probably much lower than a comparable sampling in the general populace. Sex and attraction can happen anywhere, from the whore house to the White House. It can also happen in any stateside military base.If I am not missing anything, it is 102 British women pregnant out of 5600 women deployed, or 1.8 %. I don't consider that a significant problem.
If I am not missing anything, it is 102 British women pregnant out of 5600 women deployed, or 1.8 %. I don't consider that a significant problem.
Probably much lower than a comparable sampling in the general populace. Sex and attraction can happen anywhere, from the whore house to the White House. It can also happen in any stateside military base.
Sex happens. Deal with it.
Well you might find it more of a specific problem if the guys in your unit were fighting over some chick and this carried over and start messing with the job you were there to do. Or if some guy was supposed to have your back but he's to worried about his sex partner to stay on task.
Well that's with the current rules that deliberately keep women off of certain missions and assignments.
And that's where we disagree. The last thing a guy needs on the battlefield is his pregnant girlfriend. :roll:
Then we disagree. Might as well can all the female cops also :2razz:And that's where we disagree.
Old argument though. Women have been integrated in many military units, and it does work. Surprisingly, people are able to interact without sex constantly dominating how they act. Also, three are lots and lots of rules that are actually enforced(with pretty severe consequences) dealing with how service people do their job. Neglect can be a quick trip in front of the skipper, with 60 days extra duty, 60 days restriction to quarters, loss of one rank, plus half a months pay for 3 months being a common penalty.
Well you might find it more of a specific problem if the guys in your unit were fighting over some chick and this carried over and start messing with the job you were there to do. Or if some guy was supposed to have your back but he's to worried about his sex partner to stay on task.
Since modern combat is more “high-tech,” why can’t women handle it?
A: In close combat environments, which fit the definition above, physical capabilities are as important as ever. Equipment and survival gear carried by today’s combat soldiers, including electronic weapons and ammunition, satellite communication devices, batteries, and water weigh 50-100 pounds—a burden that is just as heavy as loads carried by Roman legionnaires in the days of Julius Caesar.
Modern body armor alone weighs 25 pounds. This weight is proportionately more difficult to carry by female soldiers who are, on average, shorter and smaller than men, with 45-50% less upper body strength and 25-30% less aerobic capacity, which is essential for endurance. Even in current non-combat training, women suffer debilitating bone stress fractures and other injuries at rates double those of men.
To summarize an enormous body of well-documented evidence produced by physiologists in the U.S. and Britain, in close combat women do not have an “equal opportunity” to survive, or to help fellow soldiers survive.
Although Kevlar helmets and body armor help recruits of both sexes survive injuries that were previously fatal, women are three to four times more likely than men to be injured in battle because of differences in bone structure, aerobic capacity and upper-body strength, says Elaine Donnelley, president of the Center for Military Readiness in Livonia, Mich.
That is a private organization. They also have problems with gays in the military...Even if you put aside all sexual distractions you are still left with the fact that generally the female body - in it's optimum state - is not as optimal as the male body for the battlefield.
Center for Military Readiness | Women in Combat
That is a private organization. They also have problems with gays in the military...Even if you put aside all sexual distractions you are still left with the fact that generally the female body - in it's optimum state - is not as optimal as the male body for the battlefield.
Center for Military Readiness | Women in Combat
The battlefield is not the place for political correctness and pretending there is no difference between men and women.
That is a private organization. They also have problems with gays in the military...
Center for Military Readiness | Problems with Gays in the Military
For some reason, there are some that are averse to discovering that women can be just as tough as men. I don't really get it, personally.
That is a private organization. They also have problems with gays in the military...
Center for Military Readiness | Problems with Gays in the Military
Well it's not altogether irrational when most men I know are stronger than most women I know. If you talk about fine tuned physiques this becomes even more obvious. Clearly there are very fit women who can take down men who aren't optimally fit or men who are generally smaller. But in most cases you put a fit man up against a fit woman in hand to hand combat and the man is gonna trounce her. How am I supposed to pretend to not know this?
Faith in the God of Political Correctness will see you through.How am I supposed to pretend to not know this?
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