AMEN R! Well said!
You KNOW the media will have a field day, any woman captured will get priority, etc. You want to be equal...then it should be equal, with everything...the good and the bad.
Hey, more power to them...that would never be for me!
ha Glass. You always cut straight to the point. I pretty much agree. I also don't want any lawsuit against the milirary for what happens to her.
I don’t have a problem with it as long as she signs up for it, can pass the tests, accepts the consequences of what will happen to her if captured, and I don’t have to listen to it every time I turn the News on.
I too think there will be some issues...issues with possibly strength and duration on the front lines (example...would a woman equally be able to lift and carry, say a 240lb injured comrade)?...definitely the issue of being captured...I cannot even THINK about that. That would be a GOAL of the enemy without a doubt...so then, in those cases, does that put the troops in more danger?
Also, you have issues with just men living among women for months at a time in horrible conditions. It just introduces a whole new dynamic...will there be issues with living conditions, bathrooms? What about sexual misconduct? It already happens in the military...now you have soldiers under extreme pressure situations...with people of both sexes. Will the men be afraid to speak their minds? Will the men feel a need to protect the women over the men?
I'm all for equal rights...but this is just not sitting well with me. There are women in all branches of the military, in every ranking position...I just don't get WHY they have to be in hand to hand combat/front line scenarios.
Yes. That is true. I suspect that men can suffer as well. but as a woman, I'd never want to go through that kind of thing!
My opinion is not valid as I defer to active duty men and see what they think.
But I didn't even think of a woman being captured, if kept alive the horror she would go through.
I like the idea of women being equal but I do agree that strength maybe a factor and a horror if they were captured ..I would expect that terrorists would actually focus and prize capturing a woman especially with the way they think and feel about them in the Middle east.. thinking more about that fact I am against it ....
Don't know. I have had my reservations about it. I'm not sure why any woman would 'want' to do it or put themselves in danger like that.
John McCain came out in support of it today and mentioned that they should be put through the exact same training and be held to the same standards as the men.
Here is what mccain says about it (who's opinion I respect)
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/mccain-women-combat-panetta/2013/01/24/id/472739?promo_code=F470-1
Fine and dandy equal rights and all and there are questions about strength comparisons for male vs female but when it gets down to the very real possibility of being taken prisoner don't you think the female prisoner wont be brutally raped, tortured, and made examples of ??? I do...