On the Reality of Combat

[cynatnite]

73. I'm sorry, but in what fucking world do you and this douche live in?

In those roles, men are able to get promotions more quickly and to move up the chain. Women are essentially locked out when they are denied the opportunity to serve along side men.

I'm also a vet who tried for a combat position when I was in the Army. I was adamantly denied and never given the opportunity. During AIT at Ft. Sam Houston, we had to pull a "wounded" soldier from a tank. All of us in our squad had to take turns. For the women, it was harder than the men because we don't have the upper body strength.

Yes, harder...but not impossible. Each of us women did it. We were not about to let the men think they were better than us in this regard. For us women (and I served at a time when sexual harrassment was an accepted reality by all ranks) we had to work harder than the men just to be treated equal. That's the way it was at every assignment I had.

(on a side note: Sexual harrassment and rape are as serious as ever in todays military. We've still got a long fight for equality)

Oh, and about relieving yourself in front of the opposite sex...I've done it more than once and it wouldn't bother me to do it again. It's just a bodily function. If you had ever had given birth to a baby, you would know that modesty is something you lose pretty quickly no matter how many people (both men and women) are in the room with you.

Not only that, women bivouac, too. All of us (men and women together) spent plenty of time in the field in less than clean circumstances. I'm being polite here, too.

If you and this douche think women can't handle combat or close quartered together you both are seriously brain-damaged.