Over at Big Peace.com Jim Hanson has what might be one of the opening salvos on allowing women to serve in front line combat units. In his story he links to an article at Stripes.com titled ‘Commission to recommend allowing women in combat units’ which mentions that a “military advisory panel appears poised to recommend allowing female troops to serve in combat units without any restrictions...”
Two years ago Congress established The Military Leadership Diversity Commission to look into the subject of allowing women to serve in front line combat units. Based on the name of the commission and who established it (Congress) you could already guess what direction the decision was going to be. Here is the list of names of those on the commission. When looking these over, please remember that the military is comprised of 17% female. This commission was stacked in the agenda setter’s favor.
As a retired vet, there is no way that I could support allowing women in a forward combat unit. Most of the women I served with over my 27 years did so admirably and will continue to do so. But adding direct combat to the list of activities they have a part in is a no-go. As you readily point out, most in a forward combat unit are your aggressive type-A personalities and adding females to this mix is only asking for trouble on two fronts. While engaged in actual combat, their hard-wired desire to protect those that are weaker (yes, the liberal male is included here, with reluctance) will only distract the warrior from full combat effectiveness. While back at the forward base, this type-A personality will spend time trying to attract the females, which could either hamper preparedness or create conflict between fellow warriors vying for her attention. The feminist reading this will more than likely say “get over yourself”, but is this social experiment really worth the lives of both the female assigned to the combat unit and the warrior? Thousands of years of protect the women of our world will not be change just because Diane Finstein (sp?) wants to score points with her female and liberal voters.
