I think it´s crazy for an outgoing def. sec. to drop this bomb on the way out the door. Number two,it should have gone through congress,so the idea is thoroughly vetted.

This is really nothing more than a liberal social agenda item which has the potential to hurt readiness because women are obviously a distraction for men.

The whole thing is moot anyway as the left wants to transform the military into a humnitarian duty only.

Maybe it is not such a crazy idea. After all, look at all the babies the liberal women have slaughtered. Perhaps the draft should only apply to liberal women.

Good stuff. Then add in Sandra Bernhart, Janeane Garafolo,
and Madonna.
The 101st Harpy Battalion would be a sight to see.
Remember that all their units need to have a 125% number of soldierettes on the roster, because at any given time, 25% will be out with the menses.
But, hey I forgot about how in close conditions their menses synchronize. How we going to deal with that?
How do these commys come up with this ridiculous stuff?

With one dim exception notice that none of these clowns pushing women in combat have ever heard a shot fired in anger.

Is every female "warrior" gonna have a "minder" who keeps one bullet in his weapon just for her in case of capture?????

If they hate their own women enough to torture and kill them, what do you think they´ll do to one of our women who has tried to kill or succeeded at killing them??

Imagine the spectacle on Al´s jazeera with one of our women getting raped and tortured to within a millimeter of her life and then getting beheaded.

Makes me stop and think, too bad the people (and I use that term advisedly) in DC don´t.

I´m quite sure the enemy is very happy about this. Insanity and another wedge of collapse.

I may be wrong but it seems that the majority of the people that are advocating women in front line roles are women who are not in the military, hate the military, or would never qualify or volunteer for a combat job if they were in the military.

I don´t know any women that could play on a men´s football team. Although I heard that one tried once.
There are very few women that can pass the brutal strength tests that are presently required ,almost none, so they will have to lower the bar. They would have to lower the physical standards and that would be silly, but the left is usually silly. They are going to bump up against the ´truth´ at some point.
I do think that women would be good at some things , like pilots, but not ground fighting.

The idea could work if the women had their own units [all female] and a completely different Rules of Engagement. Although it is rightly forbidden the men, the women should be permitted to rape, pillage, and loot. They would absolutely terrorize the enemy,

Only a person who has never served in the infantry could possibly think this is a good idea.

A couple of years back, the Marine Corps hand picked a couple of women to be test subject and go through the Infantry Officers Basic Course at Quantico. Neither could make it.

My big question is when these women come back ( or not from their Combat Tours) How will the Veterans Admin Handle the problems created by injuries, children, wounds both mental and physical. The VA cannot handle the current crop of returning vets and their injuries, Traumatic Brain Injuries, amputation and PTSD. Their inability to process these Veterans into the VA´s current system has created the need for organizations like the Wounded Warrior Foundation and DAV and AmVets, and American Legion who are trying to step in and take care of these Veterans til the VA can get around to rating and arranging for their specific care needs. THe bigh hump is getting the money appropriated for the VA to be able to do their duty to the Promises made by the Country to its Veterans.

The VA is a joke.
My spouse´s 2006 claim for Agent Orange in Viet Nam was finally decided in April, 2012, 4 months after he died.