I’m old enough to remember the whole Women In the Navy (WIN) thing, and the BS surrounding that (all run by PHDs). They even refused to have female admin types, making the Navy order in all male admin types to ‘assist’…
And I’ve seen the bodies this crap has caused…
One of my co-workers came in crowing about this again this morning, and how ‘happy’ she was about the equality! However, when I pointed out THIS article, and this set of data (below), she was NOT happy!
About a dozen nations — including Israel, Norway, Canada and Germany — allow women in combat roles.
Of note- ONLY Israeli women have actually seen significant combat, and that was on their own soil…
Sporadic studies about the effects of training and war on women have been conducted.
In the 1990s, the British army, under political pressure to put women in traditional male jobs, adopted a “gender-free” policy with identical fitness requirements for both sexes and abandoned its “gender fair” system of separate standards.
A decade later, Dr. Ian Gemmel conducted a study for the British army’s personnel center. He found that the number of women who could qualify for basic training decreased in the “gender-free” system, as more women dropped out of training because of injury, compared with the “gender fair” system of separate fitness requirements.
“This study confirms and quantifies the excess risk for women when they undertake the same arduous training as male recruits,” Dr. Gemmel reported.
In a second study, the British Defense Ministry conducted an extensive two-year assessment of women and their ability to perform routine ground combat tasks, such as lifting and carrying gear over certain distances.
Its May 2002 findings, in a report titled “Women in the Armed Forces,” were not encouraging for advocates of women in combat.
The study concluded that only 0.1 percent of female applicants and 1 percent of trained female soldiers “would reach the required standards to meet the demands of these roles.”
“The military viewpoint was that under the conditions of a high intensity close-quarter battle, group cohesion becomes of much greater significance to team performance and, in such an environment, the consequences of failure can have far-reaching and grave consequences,” the report stated. “To admit women would, therefore, involve a risk with no gains in terms of combat effectiveness to offset it.”
In 2010, the British government reviewed its policies and opted to retain the ban on women in combat.
That year, a group of U.S. Army physicians studied one brigade combat team deployed to Iraq in 2007.
Their study, published in the journal Military Medicine, examined the number of soldiers who sustained a disease or noncombat injury. Of 4,122 soldiers (325 women in support roles), 1,324 had a disease or injury that forced them to miss time or be evacuated.
“Females, compared with males, had a significantly increased incident-rate ratio for becoming a [disease or noncombat] casualty,” the doctors found.
Of 47 female soldiers evacuated from the brigade, 35 — or 74 percent — were for “pregnancy-related issues.” Women had more than triple the evacuation rate of men.
“I infer from this that women are twice as likely to suffer non-battle injuries in current specialties,” William Gregor, a professor of social sciences at the Army’s Command and Staff College, told The Times. “They will probably have a greater injury rate in heavy physical occupational specialties and the combat arms. The British experience with gender-free or neutral training standards suggests the injury rate will dramatically increase.”
UPDATE- Thanks to Tim for THIS article by a serving USMC female Captain!
Of course her ‘excuse’ was, “Well, the General says without being able to go into combat women can’t succeed.” To which I said sounds like the General did pretty well for herself…
Then I got the diatribe about how it wasn’t FAIR, and women ‘deserved’ the chance to go into combat. When I asked her if she’d go, I got the too old, family, etc (and she’s WAY overweight), so I turned it on her; and said what about your daughter, why don’t you tell HER to volunteer today (her daughter is 18), AND volunteer for combat? She should be able to pass the physical requirements, her being a cheerleader and Lacrosse player on scholarship, she should be willing to forgo that scholarship to serve the country!
She stuttered, spit, turned white and refused to answer my question…
THAT is when I realized as far as the female left is concerned, it’s all academic, BECAUSE THEY KNOW “THEY” WON’T HAVE TO GO!!!
They don’t give a shit about the women that actually DO go in the military, and ‘know’ they and their precious little ones will be safe…
Sigh…
As far as I’m concerned, if they want this crap, then re-institute the draft, put ALL kids between 18-22 in the military and train em ALL for combat. No excuses, no waivers, no outs; if that happened a lot of this social experimentation would stop!!!
Of course I know I’ll be called a male chauvinist pig, but I’m tired of them playing games with the lives of our troops (Male AND Female), just so they can make us more PC…
