Thursday, December 3, 2015

Carter orders military to open all combat jobs to women

"Defense Secretary Ash Carter will order the military to open all combat jobs to women, The Associated Press has learned, rebuffing attempts by the Marine Corps to exclude women from certain front-line combat jobs..."
The Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Joseph Dunford, former Marine Corps commandant, had argued that the Marines should be allowed to keep women out of certain front-line combat jobs, citing studies showing that mixed-gender units aren't as capable as all-male units. Carter's decision was a rejection of that argument.
Carter's order will let women serve in the military's most grueling and difficult jobs, including as special operations forces, such as the Army Delta units and Navy SEALs, according to the defense official...
Carter has hinted at this decision for months, telling U.S. troops in Sicily in October that limiting his search for qualified military candidates to just half the population would be "crazy."

11 comments:

Methadras said...

Well, they can be open to these jobs, but they still have to qualify. Maybe not for front line combat, but at least for specialized jobs and special forces. Unless of course SecDef decides to lower or get rid of those standards too. Fucking PC assholes are everywhere eroding institutions and weakening our country with their nonsense ideas. I have zero issue with a woman doing the same job as a man, but under the standards set by men because even those standards are hard for most men and there is a reason for that. And you guys wonder why I think these fucking assholes should be six feet under.

rhhardin said...

Nagging is a combat job.

Amartel said...

Meth - you answered your own question. The only real standards are double standards set according to the whims of the Elect and whatever emotional/mental meltdown is in style today.

bagoh20 said...

So isn't it time to put us men on those abandoned pedestals. I could rock that trophy husband thing. I'd have her glass of wine waiting, and screw her right on the front porch when she got home, but she has to build the porch, I have laundry to do.

edutcher said...

Pray President Trump or Cruz cancels this idiocy when he voids all of Pissy's executive orders.

rcocean said...

"Well, they can be open to these jobs, but they still have to qualify."

They always ending up lowering the standards so they CAN qualify. To a liberal, if women qualify at a lower rate than men that means only one thing - the standard was sexist.

Chip Ahoy said...

Well maybe we can start cranking out hot military babes like Israel where existence is like totally existential like for f'n real. I predicted to myself you'd certainly be talking about women required to register for the draft equally as blokes but I disappointed myself again. When oh when am I going to stop betting myself like this and making myself feel foolish? Am I ever to overcome this penchant for idle gambling?

Methadras said...

Mmmmm, hot IDF jew womenz!!!

G Joubert said...

Knock back a shot of whiskey while you contemplate the people out there who believe America's daughters coming home in body bags is a good thing.

Aridog said...

You want to crank out hot military womenz, look no further than the Kurdish PPK. They haz them...oh yeah.

Otherwise, as put out by Carter and Obama, it's nonsense (they will lie to you)...the standards will be lowered because they have to be. Seal Team 6 is not attained by the average PFC fresh out of AIT. Come on now?

I know some very tough women, some soldiers in the field grade officer ranks...but no where near enough to be universal throughout the military. It is actually an anti-feminist movement, making women the same as men (trying anyway) when the fact is that many are superior to men, in their fields. I know a couple civilian types who could kick my butt any day...and they are beautiful women, too...just work hard to be the best of the best.

Among the Colonels I'd follow anywhere in to harms way was a beautiful woman...but she was a rare commodity in the Army. Her main objection when deployed to Afghanistan was that the Army also deployed a platoon to protect her...because of her looks...really irritated her to be so coddled. But...yeah, she was and is a "stunner." I guess I understand the Army not wanting her in a body bag.

Methadras said...

G Joubert said...

Knock back a shot of whiskey while you contemplate the people out there who believe America's daughters coming home in body bags is a good thing.


Breaking glass ceilings and all. At least Hillary can live vicariously through them as she takes fire helicoptering down into a another war zone. GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!