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PurpleHaze 
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good for them.
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 11:25am |
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I still don't understand the alarm. Gays were already serving, now they can do so openly. Women were already coming home missing limbs and having PTSD, only now their work will be recognized.
nobody is asking women who don't want to do so to take those roles. It will simply open up opportunities for career advancement for women who want that life. |
Exactly!!! There isn't going to be a run of women signing up to drive a tank or an infantry scout. You choose your career path mostly (unless you get a bad recruiter). And the bulk of positions in the military aren't in direct combat so yall need to chill with that "I don't wanna die" whining
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 11:22am |
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I never heard about a woman missing limbs. |
Women are less than 15% of the military so of course the numbers are low. But you don't remember when that white woman soldier jessica lynch was kidnapped and got a lot of press and the black woman who came home badly injured but got very little? Well she was crippled for sure for a time. |
Theres also a new congress woman, Tammy Duckworth who's a former Iraqi war veteran who lost both her legs in combat.
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 11:14am |
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I never heard about a woman missing limbs. |
Women are less than 15% of the military so of course the numbers are low. But you don't remember when that white woman soldier jessica lynch was kidnapped and got a lot of press and the black woman who came home badly injured but got very little? Well she was crippled for sure for a time.
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 10:35am |
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I never heard about a woman missing limbs.
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 10:31am |
melikey wrote:
I still don't understand the alarm. Gays were already serving, now they can do so openly. Women were already coming home missing limbs and having PTSD, only now their work will be recognized.
nobody is asking women who don't want to do so to take those roles. It will simply open up opportunities for career advancement for women who want that life. |
Exactly!!! There isn't going to be a run of women signing up to drive a tank or an infantry scout. You choose your career path mostly (unless you get a bad recruiter). And the bulk of positions in the military aren't in direct combat so yall need to chill with that "I don't wanna die" whining
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 9:16am |
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I still don't understand the alarm. Gays were already serving, now they can do so openly. Women were already coming home missing limbs and having PTSD, only now their work will be recognized.
nobody is asking women who don't want to do so to take those roles. It will simply open up opportunities for career advancement for women who want that life.
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 9:13am |
OoDles O wrote:
nicks_hotmama06 wrote:
This.... it's a bad idea. I don't care what lies have been told.....we are not men and we can not compete with them on a physical level. If that were not so, why are sports divided based on gender? No thanks. I have no problem excepting the truth. But that it's me. To each his/her own. |
Where not fighting wars with horses and bayonets anymore.
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Nah really? Been too busy tendin' chilruns and keeping the men fed. Since the ban was upheld in 1994, clearly they was a reason. If no ground troops were needed, then clearly a lot of people have died since then for absolutely no reason.
Edited by nicks_hotmama06 - Jan 24 2013 at 9:19am
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 8:58am |
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The women still have to pass a strength test to be considered. Congrats to the women who wanted this, but no thank you
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Posted: Jan 24 2013 at 8:57am |
nicks_hotmama06 wrote:
This.... it's a bad idea. I don't care what lies have been told.....we are not men and we can not compete with them on a physical level. If that were not so, why are sports divided based on gender? No thanks. I have no problem excepting the truth. But that it's me. To each his/her own. |
Where not fighting wars with horses and bayonets anymore.
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