U.S military to let women try out for navy seals

Women have no place in combat ...... only thing they will end up doing is getting alot more men killed ...... or if they get captured theyll end up being the entertainment for enemy troops ...... seen firsthand what happens to women prisoners in war ....... it not suitable to go into detail here on what happens to them .....

Am very much old school when it comes to military ..... war and women in combat ..... personally wouldnt accept any woman in a unit I command ...... not get paid enough to babysit and put up with their bullshit would end up shooting them myself to save the lives of my troops .....

Todays military bunch of pussys and fat boys with lax standards and mollycoddled .......

I'm not sure I'd use quite as colorful of terms as the OP for this, but I have to say I generally agree. When this was theory, the idea was the standards would never be changed, and women who could hack it...would get their bit to hack. We have seen that was absolutely NOT true in how the Services HAVE adapted to make it more realistic for women to pass in physical respects. We've seen actual headlines to suggested investigations where female %'s in combat arms didn't measure up for graduation rate.....as the ORIGINAL STANDARD CONCEPT would have made a given to see happen.

I love how we all want to be equal these days and play like we are. I am almost amused at how hard we seem to pretend we are 100% totally equal. Well... We aren't. We never have been, and we never will be.

Women are physically weaker, by nature than men. This isn't insulting to say, it is a biological fact differentiating the sides of a species, as much as it is evident in nature and the animal world. Females and Males have distinct size differences, personality or dispositions, and very different roles in nature, and almost without exception across species to look at.

Was something about being human supposed to re-write biology JUST for our species or something?

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If women CAN pass 100% EQUAL courses and 100% EQUAL tests to men, then by God, suit them up, give them a weapon and a squad position and send them out to fight and die with everyone else. They've fought for the right to die in a foreign land for political causes...who are we to say they can't?

If they cannot pass 100% equal to and with ABSOLUTELY NO special accomodation, whatsoever? Then the very fact itself says equality is a wish, not a reality, and we're weakening our national defense by including people in our fighting Services who cannot fight equal to the man or person next to them.

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I think Dait is also correct in POW issues. We are going to see a female POW at some point, and not Lynch with the Iraqis, like happened in 2003. That was a kind and gentle captivity period with Iraqis as scared of American reprisal for mistreatment at that stage, as anything else.

If ISIS gets a female pilot, or ANY American female in military service...we won't get a quickie beheading, and she won't be given that mercy. They will likely video everything they do, and release it world wide ...and it'll likely take days for her to break, and then, mercifully, die.

We'll see how the nation feels about Females in combat after it sees the full package for what that REALLY means, and it ain't parades or VFW get togethers which matter. It's the part where lead stuff is hitting the red stuff, and ANY advantage is a MAJOR advantage. Our penchant for weakeness to Females IS our cultural weakness..and we're handing it to an enemy as a tool to use. God help the women tho...because the way they are used to BE an advantage will border on Evil, given who we fight right now.

At least a man in ISIS hands has death to look forward to, as likely being the worst he'll get. That...is what a female will come to wish for, above all else, I fear.

My fluffy thoughts on the subject!

I'm a sexist. I believe that there are differences between men and women. I rather enjoy the differences.

But I am not a chauvanist. I do not believe that one "sex" is better than another.

As for women in combat?

As much as I have served, I've always been a REMF. Sorry, no combat tales from this bunny. Women I have worked with in the military were equal to the tasks that I performed. Though the biggest danger was paper cuts and falling asleep at your desk.

I cannot say whether they'd be just as good or not. I've heard stories that they are as good. I've heard stories that they aren't as good.

My suggestion would be to end war so we'd never have to have this discussion.

But what do I know.


I'm just a giant fluffy bunny.

I'm Late To the Party,,,, Mr.G. here,,, I was in the same frame of mind as Daitengu most of my young life, mainly because of Standards of life being raised in America and How Women were Thought of.
The Real world changed that,,,, or should I say to be more accurate, being in other countries that have depended on the female Gender to be Strong.
My Wife is one, remember folks, she was assigned to follow me and she was the only agent I never spotted as a tail, until I approached her thinking I'd seen the Beautiful Woman before and wanted to ask her out, I startled her when she looked up and I was not 25 feet away and approaching her, she shot me twice thinking I'd made her and she was in danger.
OH,,, that's a story my wife as already posted,,, no sense in rehashing or retelling.
All I'm Saying is, different cultures think of the female gender differently and treat them in such a way, most American Raised Adults would be Horrified.
look at WWII, who were some of the best Russian Snipers? Women, in Vietnam the NVC had some of the best women snipers ever point in the field.

China has women combat teams, that are trained to kill with knives only up close and Very personal.
This is an American and Basically Western Society Way Of thinking! 

 

I agree with Mr G. , @guohua,
Some cultures have stronger women.

I'm Canadian, and I must say that none of my Canadian girlfriends would be fit for battle. We do know how to have a good time though. bacon&beer

When I lived in Qingdao , China, both my housekeeper and my boss were Chinese ladies. And when they told me to do something, I did it, no questions asked, they gave off this harda** attitude, I never wanted to get them angry.

I taught English there btw, that was back in my single days.