Saying so doesn´t make it so.

If you´re a tough enough "lady" to make it through training to be a Navy Seal or a member of Delta Force, surely modesty is not one of your vices. My opinion, as a woman, is if you want to serve in frontline combat, there are NO special accommodations made for you whatsoever. If you can´t keep up with the boys, performing at the exact same standards, you do not belong.

demsey is a doofus dork... Ashamed of him and the people that promoted him!! Looks ..walks....and, smells like a duck!

Accommodate our fierce young ladies. Pitty the fool who leaves the seat up.

Another "Get Along to Go Along" Beltway hack. How´s that pregnancy thing workin´ out for you among the shipboard female sailors and their baby daddies, Martin?

He has to say that,if he says what he really thinks he is fired.
Beyond all that, this a joke.

Lord have mercy on American fighting forces.
In a few years, even the French will be laughing at us.

#2 says it. If you can keep up with the men in training without any special arrangements, go for it. Otherwise, go home.
My wife could do it. We went to shooting schools together. Everytime she went to the can, she always came back with full mags and she was kind enough to share them with me!

Privacy is the least of a woman´s problem...the reason that women are not in the Seals and Delta Force is the same reason that no women are playing in the Super Bowl and that men hold all track and field records and all swimming records and that no woman has played in major league baseball...it really is quite simple- men know it and women know it...only leftists morons can´t figure it out

Privacy for the young ladies engaged in front line combat? Obviously, the esteemed General Dempsey has never read "Last Letters From Stalingard" (Letzte Briefe aus Stalingard) first published in 1950!

Obama appears to be getting rid of the last few effective flag officers. He fires General Mattis and has this idiot Dempsey as Joint Chiefs Chairman.

He is doing everything in his power to weaken the US Military. If it´s simply his clueless ideology that´s one thing. If it´s deliberate then there is another name for what he is doing...treason.

A monthly period is just what our frontline needs to deal with... 14 days without showers, toilets... 100 pounds of battle gear...and tampons.

As a women and a mother... If your 125 pound daughter cant carry my 200 pound son out of danger- stay the heck off front lines infantry!. Battle support- computer analysis... Pilot... Fine... Fox holes not so fine.

These perfumed prince "generals" are guilty of treason - every single one, and should be tried as traitors after the collapse.

There is an open letter floating around the innerwebs written by a recent combat vet detailing how he and his fellow troops had to urinate and defecate while standing into plastic bags, in front of each other while packed into a transport vehicle for days at a time. As in inches away from each other´s faces, without having bathed for over a month to the point of having sores all over their bodies.

I´d love to hear Gen. Sissypants´ thoughts on having women changing their sanitary pads and/or tampons, having not bathed for a month.

Well, the good news is that the musloids won´t get the chance to rape and behead those women. They´ll all die of toxic shock syndrome long before that.

This 33 year veteran agrees with #3.

General Dempsey is the officer who personally called a Florida pastor to "urge" him to not criticize Islam...this just after Benghazi.

Terence, call them whatever you want - but not "ladies."

And I thought W.C. Panetta said that we´re gender-neutral now, so there should be no need for privacy anyway.

The few women who can make it through Delta Force or SEAL training are tough enough to stand right up to a urinal with a squad of men and let her rip.

This whole deal is bogus, as those yes men generals who went along with this know that the number of women who will make it through serious gender neutral combat training will be very few and they will not fill hundreds of thousands of combat unit jobs as the liberal media has been fraudulently crowing, and even most of the women who pass out of the training regimen will not stay in ground combat units for very long, as their bodies will break down once they have to carry a 60lb rucksack, a rifle or machine gun and a whole bunch of ammunition on foot for miles in a hostile environment. The main reason for all this is to give a few woman a way to punch their ticket as is required to progress into the higher ranks of the military.

Really, couldn´t we have pilot tested this in the NFL before rolling out into real combat?

Is this the new way to keep JAG and the rest of lawyers in this country in business?

Let the women take a dump and shower along with their male counterparts.

What is never reported is the significant number of unplanned pregnacies among women in the military.Especially problematic are the number of women in combat areas experiencing pregnancy related problems.I guess word of those things never reach Dempsey.

I´m sure the enemy will take a time-out and let the lady go potty in private./s Surely this idiot knows that war is hell?

Men and women could die because of this ill-conceived decision.

This dog is a traitor to his country. No woman can survive that training. G.I. Jane was nothing Hollywood woman´s lib fantasy propaganda, but in order to make it into "reality" they´ll lower the qualifications to the point that a child can make it. Then all desire to join elite units will be lost for good.

Isn´t it interesting how King Putt has unilaterally ordered women onto the front lines, while none of his Executive Branch flunkies have ever even been in the military? What´s that liberal mantra about, "Chicken Hawks?"

GEN Dempsey is just another politician wearing a uniform. There is no privacy once you leave the garrison area.

Please, no special treatment. Ripley, the survivor in Alien had no special treatment, fought the monster alone (at the same time caring for her cat) and at the end of that movie she had won, killing the beast. Modesty was not one of her virtues... Oh WHAT, this isn´t a movie.... never mind.

Everyone in DoD knows that promotions to general officer are either the result of a candidates demonstration of strict PC adherence, or that something happens to them once they achieve command rank and they become PC fanatics. Base command hallways are dotted with memos about dedication to ´diversity´ and ´EEO´.

Thanks, # 12 and 13. My first thought exactly.

I remember seeing a film showing a special services or seal making his way across a field dressed in gillie in view of "enemy" guards. It was a time release and it took over 8hours to get across the field successfully. We were sobered to think of insect bites, itching. The urge to sneeze or cough. Someone asked what he did if he had to pass water or defecate. He said, " you just do it." I´m a woman, and I´ll stick to to auxiliary jobs, thank you just the same.

His last statement implies they will lower standards to insure more than a few women qualify... and insert women in leadership positions without any experience... so they have a mentor asap. Disgusting.

Martin Dempsey is an absolute idiot, moral coward and disgusting Obama syncophant. There is no doubt women support all aspects of the war effort, to include special operations forces. To think they have the physical capacity to be assigned to these units is delusional and seriously calls Dempsey´s competence and judgement into question.

Women in the Seals & Delta Force? Wow. I thought they weren´t going to dumb down the physical requirements but apparently they´ve done it already. The failure rate for men attempting to get into these 2 units is astronomically high. I can´t imagine one single woman meeting the standards, unless its someone who wants to be a woman but is in a male body, and not even then.

They will provide the females with testosterone and progesterone. They will have bigger muscles, have no monthly cycles and will not get pregnant when raped. The elites will celebrate. Eventually the US military will consist of 80% chubby people sitting at computer screens and 20% orcs.

The standards will be lowered. Anyone who says they believe anything else is stupid or lying. On the bright side this stupid stunt will even things up in the next civil war against our bloated, morally and fiscally bankrupt central government.

As a veteran, in the past I would have been fuming about this insanity. Today I would say why would any traditional, masculine male even consider enlisting in our military. It is run by Generals and "leaders" that are nothing but political hacks, it is totally PC, Affirmative Action and antagonistic to the Christian faith. Our troops "rules of engagement" seem to have been set by our enemies.