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2015-07-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Fired Female Marine Commander Asks Congress For Support

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-21 01:22|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Male physical standards? Simply not possible. Pound for pound we have more muscle (ie we can carry that Ma Deuce where it will be needed and they can't, can climb Pointe du Hoc and they can't), bigger hearts, biiger lunfgs and our blood carri more oxigen per liter (ie we can keep running at a faster pace well after they have to stop), and greater leaps ie we can jump over that obstacle when being forced to clim or go ariund it means death.

There are women, eg a 100m World Champion who in one area can best a Marine Standards men but none who can dpo all the things I mentionned. That is pphysiologically impossible.

Women in combat roiles leads to both them and their male comrades being killed and allowing enemies to survive thus leading to further casualties.

Now the higher the American losses the more likely that just like in Vietnam, American public tires of the war against islamo-fascism and concedes defeat. Pehaps that is the goal of the whole scheme.

Posted by JFM 2015-07-21 05:27|| 2015-07-21 05:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Heck, when the auto loader malfunctions and you have to ram the 120mm round by hand into the tank gun's breach, let alone humping 155mm rounds to the artillery piece to keep up the necessary rate of fire to suppress a wave attack.

Bulge '44, Tet '68, there are no clerks, cooks, or mechanics, everyone is an infantryman.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-21 09:51|| 2015-07-21 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 The Dr. Ben Carson of the Marine Corps.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-21 10:04|| 2015-07-21 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 @Procopius. More prosaically when you have to change a truck tire or a tank track link.

Posted by JFM 2015-07-21 11:38|| 2015-07-21 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Let Uncle Bam's new robot pilots
Be wymyn, trangendered, but pirates,
So swotters take orders
From new improved boarders
And same-sex-besotted pot violets.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-07-21 13:52|| 2015-07-21 13:52|| Front Page Top

#6 JFM, you are right but I'd rather they tried than just accept lower standards that they can all make.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-07-21 14:31|| 2015-07-21 14:31|| Front Page Top

#7 same-sex-besotted

Sorry. That was beneath the dignity of the Burg. Don't know why I pick on teh gay, when I've never had any particular beef with gay qua (heh, so gmmmmmph!) gay. Stuck up for the teased kids in school and all that. Genetic? Legacy of the limerick's dark, brutal past? Anyhoo, s/same-sex/progress. Thank you for listening.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-07-21 15:11|| 2015-07-21 15:11|| Front Page Top

#8 sadly, when col germano told the truth to the female trainees about the need to achieve high physical standards, she made some trainees unhappy

Posted by lord garth 2015-07-21 15:17|| 2015-07-21 15:17|| Front Page Top

#9 The sad thing is if they just passed 'em through at the lower standards the same folks would raise hell when a bloodbath resulted because they weren't up to Marine standards.

They need to keep the standards of what it means to be a combat Marine and if ladies want to be Marines and can't cut the physical required for combat they can work in supporting roles or as pilots or something with different physical requirements.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-07-21 16:11|| 2015-07-21 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Ok, I have tried to be nice on these threads but I am done.

One. LTC Germano is all right by me. And if I met her I would shake her hand. She is the kind of officer I respect and admire.

Two. As a mathematician, referencing the Lanchester 1 & 1/2 power law, I am a big believer in getting there firstest with the mostest. So, if a female Marine is able to accomplish 80% of a male Marine's ability, but we can get 20% more Marines on point, then we--America--are better off.

Three. 90% of the time our military is in garrison. So it doesn't matter if their fighting force is at its highest edge. God knows how many General officers Lincoln had to cashier, before he succeeded. Yet Bush failed for years with what he had. NONE of which, for Lincoln or Bush, were women. So I really tire of routine tearing down of female officers. They are OK. And if you've met them you know.

Four. America is an idea taken up by citizens, men and women, who want to perpetuate and defend it. Let them.

Posted by rammer 2015-07-21 21:06|| 2015-07-21 21:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Ah yes, FORT APACHE'S HENRY FONDA REMEMBERS NOT-AN-ARMY-KAYDET GERMANO.

Personally, I think its because she didn't look as sexy slinky good as Valerie Plame in BDUS while searching for Saddam's Nukes in Iraq.

I could cough *** cough *** cough say somethings else, but won't.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-07-21 23:02|| 2015-07-21 23:02|| Front Page Top

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