Women in Combat positions

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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Who Princess wrote:

    And I don't doubt the shower issue is important. But other professions (police, firefighters) have found a way to work those things out. I'd venture to say that if the military commits to it they will also find a way.


    Policemen and firefighters as risky as their jobs are not eactly living in wartime conditions or on the front lines. Apples and oranges. That's like saying well a girl can play high school football so lets stick her in a battalion out in the middle of the desert with 99 other guys for 3 months at a time. :?
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    drinkbigredinstead wrote:
    . Not women, but the men.


    War is fought with much more than guns.
    i agree...

    men thinks we are still at 1960....but we arent...

    men need to wake up...

    women arent like our moms at 70's that almost always keep their mouth shout and do what the master of the family said..
    woman now are pilots at f-18 fighters and with a button can blow your shit away..
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    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    drinkbigredinstead wrote:
    . Not women, but the men.


    War is fought with much more than guns.
    i agree...

    men thinks we are still at 1960....but we arent...

    men need to wake up...

    women arent like our moms at 70's that almost always keep their mouth shout and do what the master of the family said..
    woman now are pilots at f-18 fighters and with a button can blow your shit away..



    ...And as long as they pass the standards fine. As far as sharing front line duty with men I'm still very much opposed unless they are given their separate groups. Just my opinion and seems to be the opinion of the military personnel in general.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i've saw pictures of women warriors from other parts of the world too, and let me say, they were beautiful. holy smokes... please arrest me! i'll sit there and be interigated by those womans all day. in a matter of moments we'll be sipping tea & discussing how bad men are. they'll believe i am lesbian or something. :lol:
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    chadwick wrote:
    i've saw pictures of women warriors from other parts of the world too, and let me say, they were beautiful. holy smokes... please arrest me! i'll sit there and be interigated by those womans all day. in a matter of moments we'll be sipping tea & discussing how bad men are. they'll believe i am lesbian or something. :lol:
    :lol::lol::lol:
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  • MotoDC
    MotoDC Posts: 947
    Who Princess wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    Denying them any opputunities? If a woman wants to fight and/or get blown up more power to them. Just put the women in their own separate groups. A lot of people assume this a male issue...a guy looking at a girl...a guy feeling sympathetic towards a woman...the same can be said about any woman that can be said about a man and if a woman disagrees with that I would say that's steroetypical. When you are sitting in a trench, or a jungle, or a desert....the front lines are the last place to worry about ANY gender issues. Whether it's taking a shit, piss, or just talking about the opposite sex to pass the time.
    An all female unit. They could be called the Amazon Regiment. :lol:

    There used to be all-black units. During WWII, there were units of just Japanese-Americans. Supposedly other Americans wouldn't be able to fight alongside them. Which turned out to be wrong and thankfully we don't do that anymore.

    You may have missed the part in the article the OP quoted where some of the women say that some career options aren't open to them because they can't have combat duty. The army wasn't my career choice but if someone really likes that life and wants to make a career of it, I'm sure they'd like to advance in it as much as they're able to.

    While I appreciate what some people have said about how men in combat might be overly concerned about female comrades that remind them of their wives, sisters, moms--isn't there a good chance that their male buddies would remind them of their brother, best friend, or dad? A friend of mine who's a Gulf War veteran told me that the main reason you fight is for the buddy beside you.
    You put forth some good points, but are you honestly suggesting that the male-female dynamic is no different than the male-male dynamic? 1000s of years of evolution would suggest otherwise. Hard to program that out in the course of 50 years (I chose that timeframe since you're drawing such a distinction between the wars of our grandfathers and those of today, but the specific timeframe largely irrelevant).

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