Amos is starting to look rather pathetic in all the delays that he's announcing. First he delays a decision on the ACV. Over. And over. And over again (we're still waiting). And now after study, he delays implementing a simple PFT change for female Marines.
Doesn't the Marine Corps teach that decisiveness is a leadership trait?
This is just another illustration of why Amos is the wrong leader, at the wrong time (there is never a good time for his type of leadership), and in the wrong service.
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Haynie is at it again over at USNI Blog on this issue. As usual it full of the usual feminist blather. We are women hear us roar shit, yet treat us special because we're ladies nonsense. Read it here if you're interested. But what caught my attention and made me laugh out loud is the fact that NOT ONE person has commented on the article. Marines, Sailors everyone in and out of uniform (with a few exceptions) has gotten the message. Touch this if you want but you'll get burned.
If the US military want women in combat units, then they should follow the IDF standards
ReplyDeletewhat exactly is Israeli standards? quite honestly the only thing i've seen chicks do in the IDF is act as instructors probably because they're hot and keep any guys attention (well except for the gay guys) and a couple of outfits that are integrated and supposedly infantry but i never see them highlighted in any training ops or combat on the border.
DeleteMaybe cause the IDF has a different standards for women in Combat units than the USMC.
DeleteI was always under the impression that in Israel the point was to make use of everyone available even if you were in a wheel chair, thus allowing the redirection of personnel to more appropriate needs. What the women do is kinda irrelevant they free up manpower for more severe operations for a country that has serious security issues. As a bonus its pretty much how everyone meets their wife/husband.
DeleteHere's examples of IDF women that could put USMC women to shame.
Deletehttp://www.idfblog.com/2012/03/29/women/
http://www.idfblog.com/2012/03/08/infographic-women-idf/
Here's how the IDF holds try-outs for Combat units for women
http://www.idfblog.com/2012/03/03/motivated-female-high-school-students-give-idf-combat-soldiers/
Here's one of the known female IDF combat officers
http://www.idfblog.com/2011/10/27/meet-the-new-female-combat-officers-of-the-idf/
One of the known mixed gender combat battalions called the Caracal Battalion.
http://www.idfblog.com/2011/12/20/mixed-female-male-battalion-holds-first-joint-drill/
http://www.idf.il/1283-14230-EN/Dover.aspx
Even the IDF is one of the very few military services that allows those with physical disabilities to serve in the IDF. Here's the story
http://www.idfblog.com/2013/12/03/how-an-israeli-with-cerebral-palsy-beat-the-odds-and-became-an-idf-officer/
http://www.idfblog.com/2013/08/22/young-recruit-with-cerebral-palsy-volunteers-for-full-service-in-the-idf/
http://www.idfblog.com/2013/10/15/neshers-medical-condition-meant-didnt-serve-idf-volunteered-anyway/
FYI, I am close friends with a few IDF officers who knows what's going on in Israel and in the IDF. One of them is head of the IDF's social media and the other is a Combat Doctor.
I feel like Art in Monsters University. "I wanna touch it!"
ReplyDeleteBut that did not work out well for Art...
i feel your pain and considering the reduction in force its definitely for the best!
DeleteThere is only one standard, Marine standard. If someone can't do that, no mater if he had dick between his legs or no, there is no place for him in Corps.
ReplyDeleteOf course I will be still a hardcore, concrete head believer that armed forces are only for males. And woman on board is a bad luck, even when my sister is an navigation officer on merchant ship and to this moment she had not crack a single freighter :D
I dont think IDF standards are all that relevant to US mil.
ReplyDeleteWhat is highly relevant is physiology. The muscle tissue cells and structure and testosterone based muscle growth are exactly the same in men and women. The skeletal structure is only slightly different. Look at small children playing, those girls don't even know they are girls until they are told they are. My teenage niece likes sports but she wont lift a dumb bell cause she thinks she wont be sexy or whatever, the ignorance infuriates lol.
Women usually start out with less muscle mass than men when joining the military and BCT and AIT might not be long enough to build that muscle to fully reach the male standard.
But a year is more than long enough to build that mass from whatever pathetically emaciated condition they enter from, the rest of the fault of their failure has everything to do with the USMC bending on standards and not forcing them to weight train.
Its a job you get paid to be there, if they issue a performance requirement, you either make it or hit the highway.
The muscle tissue cells and structure and testosterone based muscle growth are exactly the same in men and women. The skeletal structure is only slightly different.
DeleteYour statement is very misleading. Men have 7-8 times the testosterone levels of females and consume it in far greater quantities leading to 20 times the testosterone production of females.
Men also have a greater capacity for muscular hypertrophy and tend to convert food to muscle while females tend to convert it to fat.
Female athletes cannot compete at the levels of the male athletes, however much they train.
Do you advocate testosterone injections to the female marines?
Obviously there's more to life than pullups and many things that women can do. In fact, women can do some things better than men, like manage. Studies have shown that women are better managers than men. They can multitask, and they know how to cooperate. They remember names. They aren't affected by that dangerous male drug testosterone which leads to competition, my pencil is bigger than yours, etc. Women currently are CEOs of Lockheed, BAE and General Dynamics because they are good managers.
ReplyDeleteMen are stronger, and better leaders. So there are definitely military tasks that should be done by men, and men only. Leadership isn't the same as management, and men are better at getting people under stress to do things no sensible cooperative person would do, and they have the strength to endure all kinds of hardships and complete assigned missions.
So if you need to run a base, consider women for management positions. If you intend to capture a base, you need men, men that can do ten pullups. Okay, three.