Anonymous
12-31-1969, 07:00 PM
By an old Infantryman:
Let me start out out by saying that for the most part I do not have a
problem with women serving in most combat related fields. Such as flying
combat aircraft or field artillery or serving on combat ready ships. I
do how ever believe they should be held to the same standards as their
male counterparts. Which currently is not the case.
O.K. on to the part of my opinion that I'm going to get hammered on. I
do not however believe women belong in a combat intense field such as the
infantry. I know from being in the infantry and reading a number of the
comments on these articles a lot of people feel that their MOS or Job is
similar enough to the infantry and that I'm just full it. Well bottom
line your wrong, anyone outside this MOS has no idea what its like. Take
for instance there is a comment posted from a woman about how she carried
a fifty pound ruck and slept in tents in the field just like the men.
That isn't an infantry unit; Why? Because our Assistant gunners rucks are
one hundred and twenty pounds and light infantry doesn't have tents, we
can't carry them, so we sleep in the dirt for two weeks or a month
depending on the field problem. That brings up another problem. The
Army's current health regs require that female soldiers are allowed a
shower every three days. This doesn't happen when your in the infantry
in fact it can't happen it won't work. It's no that I think some women
(a very small minority) couldn't do the job. It's the fact that there
exist emotional (male and female) problems not to mention biological and
physical that make this extremely impractical.
Also anyone who wants to be in the infantry has to be insane in the first
place. It wrecks your body, stresses your mind, and you just get hassled
by everyone else for being a "dumb a#$ leg."
I'm open for discussion at bgallagher@provide.net
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bgallagher@provide.net
Let me start out out by saying that for the most part I do not have a
problem with women serving in most combat related fields. Such as flying
combat aircraft or field artillery or serving on combat ready ships. I
do how ever believe they should be held to the same standards as their
male counterparts. Which currently is not the case.
O.K. on to the part of my opinion that I'm going to get hammered on. I
do not however believe women belong in a combat intense field such as the
infantry. I know from being in the infantry and reading a number of the
comments on these articles a lot of people feel that their MOS or Job is
similar enough to the infantry and that I'm just full it. Well bottom
line your wrong, anyone outside this MOS has no idea what its like. Take
for instance there is a comment posted from a woman about how she carried
a fifty pound ruck and slept in tents in the field just like the men.
That isn't an infantry unit; Why? Because our Assistant gunners rucks are
one hundred and twenty pounds and light infantry doesn't have tents, we
can't carry them, so we sleep in the dirt for two weeks or a month
depending on the field problem. That brings up another problem. The
Army's current health regs require that female soldiers are allowed a
shower every three days. This doesn't happen when your in the infantry
in fact it can't happen it won't work. It's no that I think some women
(a very small minority) couldn't do the job. It's the fact that there
exist emotional (male and female) problems not to mention biological and
physical that make this extremely impractical.
Also anyone who wants to be in the infantry has to be insane in the first
place. It wrecks your body, stresses your mind, and you just get hassled
by everyone else for being a "dumb a#$ leg."
I'm open for discussion at bgallagher@provide.net
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bgallagher@provide.net