re: Women in Combat: What say you?

If you consider the average male vs the average female, I kind of think it is obvious that the male is going to have a physical advantage. In combat is a broad term. Needs to be better defined. If piloting and aircraft or being a member of a naval vessel in combat well female with the same skill or better is a good choice. If we are talking about hand to hand fox hole shite not so much in favor of a women against a man.

I work in a selection only military unit right now and there are some women that could do it.

The military needs to set the same standard for men and women. Everyone above the line is good to go, below the line isn't. No exceptions.

A combat force would still be 98% men, but lets not pretend that there aren't some worthless males in the ranks as well.

My wife served. She was a Russian translator. She's proficient with firearms. However, the only way she's shooting another human is if they are hurting our dog. I don't want her having my six. So...negative on in combat.

My wife (no pics) who served for quite a while agreed with the bulk of Hegseth’s statements from the podcast in November that the AP quoted.

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“I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. It hasn’t made us more effective. Hasn’t made us more lethal. Has made fighting more complicated,” he said in a podcast hosted by Shawn Ryan on Nov. 7. Women have a place in the military, he said, just not in special operations, artillery, infantry and armor units.

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She also brought up the point that men beyond a certain age wouldn’t be allowed to serve in some of those combat roles.

It should be about preparedness, plain and simple.

ETA: She agreed with having the same standards across the board and that having women in combat does make it more complicated. She doesn’t have an issue with the physical standards being the same and acknowledged the complications.

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I think many women that are complaining about this are more interested in the ability to be in combat more so than they want to be in combat. Combat is hell. If you WANT to be in combat, you don't understand combat.

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Let’s have a female running back in the NFL play an entire season and see how she is doing at the end of the season - if she hasn’t quit or been killed then perhaps woman can be in physical and tough environments

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That's a fair statement. The standards for women has been severely lowered as compared to men. Read Pete's book, "The War on Warriors" and you'll see what's real in our military today under the Biden error.

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The veterans and the active military members are the ones who give the best prospective, not the fake, phony politicians.

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If they can meet the exact same standards as their male counterparts and the standards aren’t lowered to allow for this.

That is the only way I would even consider it.

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All that is great but the enemy still uses the rape of female soldiers as psychological warfare, especially if they are eventually released from captivity pregnant. Men are more capable of unemotionally doing their job if they are not worrying about their female counterparts being captured and violated.