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Defense is now officially just a jobs program.
Defense is now officially just a jobs program.
Like it never was?
I stopped at 1:39
I stopped at 1:39
Too bad, he rest was very informative.
Defense is now officially just a jobs program.
Like it never was?
They used to pay at least lip service to warfighting capability.
I served in Afghanistan alongside some brave and effective women Marines who helped our mission. There will be a lot of complications to play out, but I hope people do not engage in knee-jerk assumptions about the qualifications of individual women or make sweeping statements about some overnight loss of effectiveness/warfighting ability of the military as a whole.
I agree with that. If they can serve in combat roles and are just as good as us men (in theory), then (in theory) they should participate in Selective Service.The administration is now looking into seeking congressional approval to have women part of the Selective Service. No matter how you feel about the new rules, this seems like a needed move.
My interpretation of her statements were that female engagement did the same thing as the Rangers - "we carried the same load," "we were searching the houses," and etc. I am a technical guy so I highly doubt that the female engagement team members carried SAW or M240B or they were the first to enter a house with their weapons ready.
I am totally unqualified to opine about about women serving in combat roles, but someone sent me this and I thought it was interesting. I have no idea about the quality of the source and certainly there are folks who were there and disagree with the author.
http://sofrep.com/42761/really-happened-women-ranger-school-class-06-15/
From the article:
"In Darby, the female students in our company dispelled any doubts of their ability to hump weight on patrols during the first few days in the field. If I remember correctly, Ranger Griest carried the M240 for her squad on day one of patrols and another female in her squad carried the radio as the RTO. The next day of patrols, they switched, with Ranger Griest humping the radio and the other female student carrying the M240. Physically, they were studs. They carried their own weight and then some."