I think it is unfortunate that women are not permitted to serve in the combat arms. That will change at some point.
This chick annoys me.
I think it is unfortunate that women are not permitted to serve in the combat arms. That will change at some point.
I stop watching it after about 3 minutes.
My two cents, her ranting should be directed at politicians not soldiers. Sodiers don't vote on which war we are going to fight in.
Combat Arms - Infantry, Armor, Field Artillery, Aviation, Engineers, Air Defense Artillery, and Special Forces.
Other than Infantry, Armor, and Special Forces, femals can branch into other combat arms (not 100% sure about FA, but used to be females could branch FA for nuclear artillery). Of course within combat arms branches that females can select, certain positions are off limit. I have been female AH 64 and OH 58 pilots. Do we still have Avenger platoon? Even with Combat Arms Task Force Bns, you will see females serving along Infantry/Armor soldiers. When I was in active duty, had a female MP platoon leader, female Chemical platoon, and femal medicas attached to my mech infantry battalion task force.
As for Infantry, I don't see any reason why women can't be formally commissioned in that branch, so long as the physical requirements are the same for everyone -- a 90-lb ruck is still a 90-lb ruck regardless of who carries it. For those of my former Infantry colleagues who might think this will require all sorts of special hygiene accommodations and disciplinary issues with co-mingled troops, my response would be "get over it -- the Russians and Israelis have been doing just fine for decades."
Yeah, well, they'll never hold women to the same standard. Why would they make a woman meet the same physical standards of her male counterparts in the infantry? There is ZERO precedent for that. We don't even take the same PT test.
scout, for pilots, are there different flight physical standards for men and women?
You have the same basic medical requirements. But that's comparing apples and oranges. In the same vein, men and women have the same basic medical (vision/hearing/health) requirements for DoDMERB and commissioning. But that's where it stops.
. . . or maybe it's because passing heightened medical standards for pilots might actually have something to do with the requirements of the job of being a pilot? I suspect that we won't resolve this issue here, but I do hope that the new PT standards (which require the soldier to drag a weighted sled for a given distance within a certain amount of time) will be the real standard against which all would-be Infantry soldiers are measured. I don't think that I would have had much use in my unit for a male grunt, who could 1000 pushups, if he could not drag a wounded fellow soldier more than 2 feet on the ground. Some women can, though.
There was a time when women were not allowed to practice law in the United States for a whole host of dumb reasons. I think there was a similar bar among physicians and clergy. The first woman to practice law in the US, Margaret Brent, did not allow "precedent" to stand in her way.
What are some military stereotypes/assumptions that annoy you the most?
Putting this train back on its original tracks
As for the woman in the video, she's an idiot. But then I suppose that makes me an idiot as well, because your points about people should have an open mind and respect the opinions of others are very well-taken. Thank goodness I have the constitutional right and guaranteed freedom in this country to be an idiot!
And the other stereotype that I find annoying is that Army chow is bad. The Army has some of the finest cooks/chefs in the business!
As for Infantry, I don't see any reason why women can't be formally commissioned in that branch, so long as the physical requirements are the same for everyone -- a 90-lb ruck is still a 90-lb ruck regardless of who carries it. For those of my former Infantry colleagues who might think this will require all sorts of special hygiene accommodations and disciplinary issues with co-mingled troops, my response would be "get over it -- the Russians and Israelis have been doing just fine for decades."
Thank goodness I have the constitutional right and guaranteed freedom in this country to be an idiot!