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| Gen. Mattis contends 'the jury is out' on women serving in combat jobs |
| 2018-10-01 |
| BLUF: [Stars and Stripes] Mattis told the VMI cadets that he and senior uniformed officials, including Gen. Mark Milley, the Army’s chief of staff, and Gen. Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, continue to study the issue and hope to have conclusive data soon. "This is a policy that I inherited, and so far the cadre is so small, we have no data on it," said Mattis, who retired as a four-star Marine general in 2013 before women could serve in such roles. "We're hoping to get data soon. There are a few stalwart young ladies who are charging into this, but they are too few." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 #7 I'd be curious to see the numbers of the number of women in combat units that get pregnant before deployment. There was an IG study done after Desert Storm of the units deployed. They classified it. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-10-01 13:12 |
| #8 I wonder where they'll put the "breast feeding rooms" in combat. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2018-10-01 12:50 |
| #7 I'd be curious to see the numbers of the number of women in combat units that get pregnant before deployment. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-01 11:36 |
| #6 #4 Sadly, only the MIA/KIA tallies will 'bring the jury in' with a verdict. Well, they do have some 'disparate impact' from over 200 years to address. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-10-01 11:09 |
| #5 Service Women's Organization. Ultimately, winning is the goal. Social Justice Warfare or social engineering is not the concern. I'll wait for Mattis' recommendations. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-10-01 10:35 |
| #4 Sadly, only the MIA/KIA tallies will 'bring the jury in' with a verdict. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-01 10:07 |
| #3 With a few exceptions, women in a combat theater of operation are a distraction and an impediment to victory. There, I said it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-01 08:11 |
| #2 The Bulge, Tet, the 507th in Iraq. The enemy doesn't care. At some point, we're all infantry. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2018-10-01 07:51 |
| #1 the jury is out Barfing in the rest room? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-10-01 05:08 |