American Mercenary's latest is a must read.
He takes on the issue of women attending Ranger school and I must admit his attitude is more liberal than my own but makes sense. Check it out here, but a tidbit...
You have to read this one!
He takes on the issue of women attending Ranger school and I must admit his attitude is more liberal than my own but makes sense. Check it out here, but a tidbit...
I earned my tab. I got a yeast infection. I got cellulitis. I smelled like a corpse and looked like the walking dead. I took a double recycle to stay in the course so that my 62 day training event stretched out to 117 days. But ten years and one day after I signed my first enlistment contract my wife pinned a black and gold tab to my left shoulder.Yeah.
So bring it on. If there are any women out there who volunteer to meet the Ranger standard, go for it. I'm convinced there will be women who can make it. But I'm also convinced that the women who could make it are smart enough to avoid it.
You have to read this one!
If this was liable to be an honest assessment on their merits and abilities, his would be an excellent take.
ReplyDeleteThe success rate would be exactly equivalent to the current female pass rate for USMC Infantry Officers' Course, pretty much forever, and after two or three full-speed headfirst runs into that 10'x10' concrete wall of physiology, we wouldn't hear any more about this nonsense.
And while whoever is up, I'd like world peace, and a pony.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/02/isis-fighters-terrified-death-at-hands-female-pkk-warriors/
ReplyDeleteISIS fighters terrified of death at hands of female PKK warriors
Published September 02, 2014
Battle-hardened women fighting alongside Kurdistan's rugged Peshmerga are striking fear into the hearts of Islamic State fighters, many of whom reportedly believe getting killed by a female will bar them from heaven.
The extremists are terrified of being killed by the opposite sex, Karhan said. In northern Iraq, it is said that the Islamic State fighters believe that they won’t be admitted to heaven if they are killed by a woman.
Slowman
DeleteIts all prop, a PR stunt, attractive women to keep the papers interested in the region
The battalion has suffered 3 injuries during the 2003 invasion.
Its female Lt col reports to a male Lt
Notice the clean uniforms, the perfect makeup, the shiny jewelry.
They pose for (literal) warporn.
They don't fight, and won't except in extremis
I got sick when i read the first sentence "Battle-hardened women fighting alongside Kurdistan's rugged Peshmerga are striking fear into the hearts of Islamic State fighters" .. F*ck, I must be getting soft, I used to be able to stomach much worse than that kind of BS ;-)
DeleteNo but seriously, a pile of dogshit wouldn't smell worse than this article, if you can call it that way. First thing, where the f*ck do they get the story that in Islam, you don't go to Heaven if you're being killed by a woman ?
Maybe they've started this as a sort of last resort PSY-OP, but honestly "battle hardened women striking fear into ISIS fighters hearts", sure, why not ? Next time, we might even bring in Rudolf the red nosed reindeer, armed with an M-60 and 3000 rounds of armour piercing and incendiary ammunition !
oh i get what you're saying but it dawned on me that we've always had women in combat. we called them camp followers and they serviced the needs of fighting men!
DeleteRoger that Sol ;-) ... I usually didn't have any in combat, more often it was before or after, as i'm not that good at multitasking ... LOL
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