“For far too long, we allowed standards to slip, and different standards for men and women in combat arms, military occupational specialties and jobs, that’s not acceptable,” Hegseth said in a video on his official plane flying back from Japan before signing a memo to implement the order.
“We need to have the same standard, male or female, in our combat roles to ensure our men and women who are in those formations have the best possible leaders and the highest possible standards that are not based at all on your sex, if you’re a man or a woman,” he added. “Soon we’ll have nothing but the highest and equal standards for men and women in combat.
If there's no 'curve' in the testing, every is equal on their own abilities
and nothing else - as it should be. Well played, Pete.
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I disagree with Hegseth on this one.
ReplyDeleteWe should insist that the enemy only uses women to fight women, and men to fight men, and puppies to fight wussies.
you mean like having to do 5 pullups before you go in the mess hall ? but not on weekends !
ReplyDeleteThere is no curve in combat, and testing is pass or you are dead.
ReplyDeleteSame thing serving on a submarine: either we all come back or nobody comes back, so feckwits and fools don't last long aboard.
It's about time. I have no problem with women doing a job providing they can do the job. Fire departments all through the country should be looking at this.
ReplyDeleteSo there will be no babes flying Star Fighters in the future Battlestar Galactica? Dang.
ReplyDeleteRight, if this is whined about, lemme' get this right... Men competing against women in sports"at the women's' level" APPLAUSE! Women not getting lower standards to compete against men in the Military... BAD!,... Can't have it both ways.
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