Parting gift from Panetta

[Trip McNeely]

Son of a bitch is dug in like an Alabama tick.

[talisman]

Tali, they have a men's PT card and a women's. They don't treat them the same in garrison much less in the same job

And that is where the problem is.

[stang]

Women in combat, can't believe this is happening in my life time. Reminds me of Starship Troopers. What other country allows women in combat? Israel??

[Moose242]

Women in combat, can't believe this is happening in my life time. Reminds me of Starship Troopers. What other country allows women in combat? Israel??

Israeli women fought alongside men in the '48 war, but I know there have not been many in combat roles since then.

[Forever_frost]

Mark Levin brings up a good point. If the draft is reinstated, are they taking the women too? And if they don't, does this provide an avenue for men not to be drafted due to the fact that women, who are authorized to go to war are given an exemption?

[4bangen]

Mark Levin is the man.

[Moose242]

Mark Levin is the man.

Love what he says but I'll be damned if he doesn't have just about the most annoying voice on the radio.

[SlowLX]

terrible idea. Can't count how many times at ECP's the females that were brought out to search female locals would freeze up in the event of an ied explosion near by much less anyone actually shooting at them.

[sc281]

Women in combat, can't believe this is happening in my life time. Reminds me of Starship Troopers. What other country allows women in combat? Israel??

Throw a nuke down a bug hole, ya got a lotta dead bugs!

[no4njnk]

Love what he says but I'll be damned if he doesn't have just about the most annoying voice on the radio.

What I like Billy Crystal. My wife says that every time she hears him.

I don't mind women in select situations but that is more of a special operations role. If they have the same qualifications as men and the same procedures that is fine. But they won't so no way. If they pull a GI Jane, go ahead.

Call this military affirmative action. My stepdad is a firefighter in Houston, ask me how many of his friends were killed because people less qualified got the job.

[Forever_frost]

Can you imagine chicks in Delta, RECON, SEALS and Rangers? This is something that they couldn't possibly do while he was acting and now it has to be 100% by 2016

[8mpg]

I wonder about all the women already enlisted in the armed forces. Will they be transferred to frontline combat positions? THey signed up knowing they wouldnt.

Some damn feminist women wanting other women to die in combat...amazing

[samuel642000]

I have no problem with it as long as they are held to the EXACT same standards as the men.

Frost touched on this but they have seperate PT standards for women and men, no way will they have the same standards. I see a major drop in morale from bitter males in regards to women getting rotated to the back every month for their cycle.

[no4njnk]

Can you imagine chicks in Delta, RECON, SEALS and Rangers? This is something that they couldn't possibly do while he was acting and now it has to be 100% by 2016

They have been in special forces since 2006 or 2007. They serve more of an intelligence roll but they are there. Afghan women do not trust our guys anymore

[Ted]

I read somewhere their periods attract bears.