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WASHINGTON -- A military advisory commission is recommending that the Pentagon do away with a policy that bans women from serving in combat units, breathing new life into a long-simmering debate.
Though thousands of women have been involved in the fights in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have done so while serving in combat support roles -- as medics, logistics officers and so on -- because defense policy prohibits women from being assigned to any unit smaller than a brigade whose primary mission is direct combat on the ground. On Friday, a special panel was meeting to polish the final draft of a report that recommends the policy be eliminated "to create a level playing field for all qualified service members."
If it were approved by the Defense Department, it would be yet another sizeable social change in a force that in the last year has seen policy changes to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly for the first time in the military and to allow Navy women to serve on submarines for the first time.
Read more: Women Should Be Allowed in Combat Units, Report Says - FoxNews.com
See above.How's the platoon going to handle one or more members unable to carry the normal full load out of equipment into the field?
Roger that. I would advise some pratical guidelines...
- Devise meaningful combat qualification screening for females
- Segregated combat units
- Mobilized female strike forces
Offhand, I can't think of too many other modifications due to gender differences.
See above.
I'll never forget the final ordeal in the Negev to earn my jump-wings and maroon beret.
Maybe someday I'll share that experience.
Fair enough by me Vic.Tashah,
I think on this one, we'll just agree to disagree. Fair enough?
....mud-wrestles....
Fair enough by me Vic.
This is at least the 10th thread here at DP that mud-wrestles with this subject.
At this belated juncture, one post should be all the indulgence anyone really needs.
Maybe someday I'll share that experience.
Roger that. I would advise some pratical guidelines...
- Devise meaningful combat qualification screening for females
- Segregated combat units
- Mobilized female strike forces
If women can pass the same requirements as men, and go through the same training as if they were men, I would see no problem with allowing them to enter combat units.
If women can pass the same requirements as men, and go through the same training as if they were men, I would see no problem with allowing them to enter combat units.
At this point in time, women are not expected to pass the same requirements as men. Do you think that will change overnight? Or ever?
Not to mention the other problems I could imagine from having coed infantry unit placed in a FOB for months, alone in ****ty conditions...
I know that, and that is what I'm suggesting, if women are put up to the same test/training as men, and pass I see no reason why they shouldn't be able to enter combat units. Now I'm not sure how it would affect other aspects, but Tashah's suggestions reasonable. And obviously she probably has the most first hand experience with this kind of thing on the forum.
If women can pass the same requirements as men, and go through the same training as if they were men, I would see no problem with allowing them to enter combat units.
If women can pass the same requirements as men, and go through the same training as if they were men, I would see no problem with allowing them to enter combat units.
Roger that. I would advise some pratical guidelines...
- Devise meaningful combat qualification screening for females
- Segregated combat units
- Mobilized female strike forces
Offhand, I can't think of too many other modifications due to gender differences.
See above.
I'll never forget the final ordeal in the Negev to earn my jump-wings and maroon beret.
Maybe someday I'll share that experience.
Females aren't barred from airborne training in the U.S. military.
Leftist women can be used to clear mine fields. Conservative women can be used as commanders.
Really? That is kinda odd to me for some reason.
Unit cohesion could be a potential problem, and there would need to be a plan in place before I could say whether I actually supported the full change or not. In theory, it is workable and as such I think we should at least look seriously into doing it.
800,000 women joined the red army in WW2 with many serving in combat roles. They proved more than capable during the most brutal combat in human history. Military roles should be available to anyone who can meet the requirements needed for that position.
I see a huge problem.
It is bred into humans to be "protective" of women. Men will naturally try to protect a woman soldier more than a man, and in doing so, might make a fatal or stupid decision. His natural desire to be seen as "saving a woman's life" may get in the way of a smart military or combat decision. They also sometimes have to bathe and such in very tight and non-private quarters, which I think, is inappropriate.
I think women are great in other roles, but front line combat needs to remain all men.
For the second time in this thread, it's not about a woman's ability to be a in infantry soldier.
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