Women in Combat

[Shaps]

Nah. I was in the infantry, we had women assigned to us for female engagement. Fucking useless. We had to babysit them and they couldn't carry anything and then they had to have their own sleeping areas and shit so we had to cram two squads into one tent so they could have a whole gp tent to themselves.

I'm not saying there aren't men who are just as crappy. They shouldn't be in the infantry either, but when you lower standards to allow those women in, you're letting those men in too, thereby making the entire force weaker.

Again... I appreciate your guys insight, experiences, and positions... but you're "quoting" me and commenting on things I did not say.

1. I never said women should be in the Infantry.
2. I never said women should be in the training pipelines or serve in Combat Arms Units.
3. I never said change, lower, adjust standards... I stated the standards should apply based upon the job requirements - hence a "baseline", regardless of sex/gender, to serve in Combat Support and Combat Arms respectively.

So again, have your opinions, I'm open to listening... but the rebuttals should apply to what I said, not what you "think I said".

Pretty sure we're all right around 95% in agreement - the 5%, from what I can see from replies, simply has to do with a difference in the terms "allowing" vs. "able to"... and again, as I refer to Conventional Forces "the machine" working properly and smoothly to ensure maximum readiness. I've already made the distinction regarding the SOF community and the "Machine", so won't touch on that again.