Women Don’t Belong in Combat Units

Guest Post by Heather McDonald

The Obama-era policy of integrating women into ground combat units is a misguided social experiment that threatens military readiness and wastes resources in the service of a political agenda. The next defense secretary should end it.

In September 2015 the Marine Corps released a study comparing the performance of gender-integrated and male-only infantry units in simulated combat. The all-male teams greatly outperformed the integrated teams, whether on shooting, surmounting obstacles or evacuating casualties. Female Marines…

The Obama-era policy of integrating women into ground combat units is a misguided social experiment that threatens military readiness and wastes resources in the service of a political agenda. The next defense secretary should end it.

In September 2015 the Marine Corps released a study comparing the performance of gender-integrated and male-only infantry units in simulated combat. The all-male teams greatly outperformed the integrated teams, whether on shooting, surmounting obstacles or evacuating casualties. Female Marines were injured at more than six times the rate of men during preliminary training—unsurprising, since men’s higher testosterone levels produce stronger bones and muscles. Even the fittest women (which the study participants were) must work at maximal physical capacity when carrying a 100-pound pack or repeatedly loading heavy shells into a cannon.

Ignoring the Marine study, then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened all combat roles to women in December 2015. Rather than requiring new female combat recruits to meet the same physical standards as men, the military began crafting “gender neutral” standards in the hope that more women would qualify. Previously, women had been admitted to noncombat specialties under lower strength and endurance requirements.

Only two women have passed the Marine Corps’s fabled infantry-officer training course out of the three dozen who have tried. Most wash out in the combat endurance test, administered on day one. Participants hike miles while carrying combat loads of 80 pounds or more, climb 20-foot ropes multiple times, and scale an 8-foot barrier. The purpose of the test is to ensure that officers can hump their own equipment and still arrive at a battleground mentally and physically capable of leading troops. Most female aspirants couldn’t pass the test, so the Marines changed it from a pass/fail requirement to an unscored exercise with no bearing on the candidate’s ultimate evaluation. The weapons-company hike during the IOC is now “gender neutral,” meaning that officers can hand their pack to a buddy if they get tired, rather than carrying it for the course’s full 10 miles.

Lowering these physical requirements risks reducing the American military’s lethality. A more serious effect of sex integration has become taboo to mention: the inevitable introduction of eros into combat units. Putting young, hormonally charged men and women into stressful close quarters for extended periods guarantees sexual liaisons, rivalries and breakups, all of which undermine the bonding essential to a unified fighting force.

A Marine commander who served in Afghanistan described to me how the arrival of an all-female team tasked with reaching out to local women affected discipline on his forward operating base. Until that point, rigorous discipline had been the norm. But when four women—three service members and a translator—arrived, the post’s atmosphere changed overnight from a “stern, businesslike place to that of an eighth-grade dance.” The officer walked into a common room one day to find the women clustered in the center. They were surrounded by eager male Marines, one of whom was doing a handstand.

Another Marine officer, who was stationed on a Navy ship after 9/11, told me that a female officer had regular trysts with an enlisted sailor in the engine room. Marine Cpl. Remedios Cruz, one of the first women to join the infantry, was discharged late last year after admitting to a sexual relationship with a male subordinate. Army Sgt. First Class Chase Usher was relieved of his leadership position for a consensual relationship with a female soldier that began almost immediately after she arrived at his newly gender-integrated unit in Fort Bragg, N.C.

Long before infantry integration became a feminist imperative, evidence was clear that a coed military was a sexually active one. In 1988 then-Navy Secretary Jim Webb reported that of the unmarried enlisted Navy and Air Force women stationed in Iceland, half were pregnant.

President Trump’s first defense secretary, Jim Mattis, had seemed a good candidate for reversing the integration of women in combat units. A former Marine commandant, Mr. Mattis had previously addressed the incompatibility of eros and military discipline. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand challenged him about these politically incorrect views during his confirmation hearings, but he left enough wiggle room to preserve his options.

Unfortunately, Mr. Trump chose to ban transgender people from serving in the military rather than tackling gender integration. Mr. Trump cited the cost to taxpayers of sex-reassignment surgery for soldiers, but those costs are minute compared with the future medical bills for women’s combat-battered bodies. And women pose a far greater challenge to combat-unit cohesion than do transgender troops, because of their numbers and the nature of sexual attraction.

The argument for putting women into combat roles has always been nonmilitary: Combat experience qualifies soldiers for high-ranking Pentagon jobs. But war isn’t about promoting equality. Its objective is to break the enemy’s will through precise lethal engagement, with the lowest possible loss of American life. The claim that female combat soldiers will perform as lethally as men over an extended deployment entails a denial of biological reality as great as the one underlying the transgender crusade.

Female engineers and others did return fire when attacked in Iraq and Afghanistan. But performing well in incident-related combat is a far cry from serving in a dedicated ground-combat unit, with its months of punishing physical demands.

The incoming Pentagon chief can expect an aggressive grilling on gender integration from the Senate Armed Services Committee. He should promise to resolve the claim that, when it comes to combat, there are no significant physical differences between men and women. He could do it by pitting an all-female infantry unit against an all-male unit and seeing how they measure up.

Ms. Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.”

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anarchyst
anarchyst

I must disagree with the author’s premise on transsexuals serving in the military, to wit:
“Unfortunately, Mr. Trump chose to ban transgender people from serving in the military rather than tackling gender integration. Mr. Trump cited the cost to taxpayers of sex-reassignment surgery for soldiers, but those costs are minute compared with the future medical bills for women’s combat-battered bodies.”
A transsexual female who “transitions” into a male is still going to have female characteristics, as well as reduced strength and endurance. Trump did the right thing…
The author is wrong.

gatsby1219
gatsby1219

Transgenders are mentally ill and should never be allowed around weapons. Haven’t the lefties passed “red flag laws” to stop the mentally ill from getting weapons ?

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

Being homo, trans, etc will never be officially declared a mental illness.

Medical Associations like the AMA and many others are basically just political-government committees now… owned.

Anonymous
Anonymous

you muppet.

Gender Dysphoria is listed under Mental Disorders

https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

“The American Psychiatric Association, publisher of the DSM-5, stated that gender nonconformity is not the same thing as gender dysphoria, and that “gender nonconformity is not in itself a mental disorder.”

“Gender dysphoria is also not the same being gay/lesbian.” -DSM-5

Nice try, but even if something is listed in the ever-changing, inconsistent DSM, how many doctors are going to diagnose someone with a gender-related mental disorder for fear of being castigated and sued out of existence- much less take that diagnosis further and a deny them military service, kids, jobs, etc?

A few maybe, but most likely NONE.

Bilco

Here is what politicians who have never served in a combat infantry squad do not understand. The combat infantry squad relies on the man behind you covering your back,and you covering the man in front of you. It is cohesiveness with one looking out for the other. Enter a women or two into that mix,and close living quarters in a field environment. At some point someone in the squad is going to be f**cking one of those women. When the SHTF who do you think the guy behind me is gonna protect if he is banging one of the females?

Pequiste
Pequiste

And conversely, a female marine homosexual who hates (consciously or unconsciously) men and playing the I-hate-that-breeder male-game doesn’t have the back of the men in the unit.

Combat military units are the worst place for social engineering experiments.

RiNS

Hey PQ gotta question..

I am going to presume that you reside in Quebec.. hopefully I am correct..

What is your take on Maxime Bernier and his upstart Peoples Party. Reason I ask is because I have become a member. Main reason I am doing it is for the reaction I suspect I’ll get from family and friends as the election season progresses.. As for splitting the vote on right in my constituency at least my vote isn’t going to matter. Seeing as here in Nova Scotia we are hopelessly servants to pulling the Liberal train…

Do you think Bernier has a chance on the Home Province of capturing the protest vote that always is on offer for federal elections in much the same way the NPD did some years back with Jack Layton.

Could ol Max have a whiff of which way the winds are blowing and wants to get on board…

Love to hear your take..

Slainte!

RiNS

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls

Rins, I’ve been meaning to ask you,
are you the same Rins on patrick.net?

Pequiste
Pequiste

Used to be a Habitant. J’aime Quebec but have not lived there for many years. Stopped following la vie politique la, apres Jean Charest who I thought was the Liberal’s prime candidate to be Canada’s Prime Minister.

Now this Justin Trudeau, bozo, is the worst sort of laughingstock; with deleterious effects though out every facet of Canadian life. And he wants to destroy Canada; Anglo, Quebecois, Autochthon.

I will get back to you on my opinion of the People’s Parti because as a member of Parti Quebecois I still believe Quebec could be the Switzerland of North America. But that window is rapidly closing with Montreal turning into an Islamic & Haitian haven. Gawd help us.

I was Canadian when Knowlton Nash was hosting The National and Wendy Messley was the adorable cub reporter. Is Rex Murphy still commenting from Newfieland?

Best to you.

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

Back in 1992, the floodgates were suddenly opened to whores (and women) on post overseas.

Overnight my 800 man base in Germany went from *no females on post* to group sex gangbangs (filmed on VHS) in the barracks.

Is that any way to stay focused on the task at hand?

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls

Same could be said for homos?

Anonymous
Anonymous

gays can’t get pregnant. try again.

TJF
TJF

It’s not just front-line combat roles that are the issue. Read up on the collision of the USS FITZGERALD that killed 7 sailors. The collision was, in part, caused by two female officers who were in the middle of some sort of personal hissy fit, so they chose to not speak with each other despite that being their jobs to do so. At least one of them had the guts to plead guilty at her Court Martial.

I remember back in the late 90’s when a friend of mine was in Navy flight school they had two standards for scoring an obstacle course that was designed to simulate conditions of being shot down behind enemy lines. I guess the Navy thought the enemies wouldn’t chase female aviators as hard, so they could get an extra couple minutes to complete the course.

Pequiste
Pequiste

I had one female E-7 and a female E-6 in my unit who had a very public, ongoing cat-fight over skirt lengths and heel height. I sent them to the First Sergeant to get it resolved. Months later it spilled over into a formal H.Q. Inspector General complaint and investigation.

Turned out one of the women was having sex and drinking parties with their female subordinates, in a secure military facility, and it was their little “secret” playtime.
Repeat after me: complete destruction of operational capability.

By their actions, they broke foundational components of nuclear alert operations, indeed any military unit’s requirements: trust, honesty, and loyalty.

The issue goes well beyond front-line combat units. All military units are impacted.

RiNS
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

Thanks for the vid.

TampaRed
TampaRed

i was 1/2 asleep so i might have missed the point–why is he tying together the 2 ship incidents w/the norks detonating the bomb?
is he saying we had a bomb on the ship & they stole it?we gave it to them?

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls

But make sure you praise them every time you see them.

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

Hey man, were you around for the “Single Soldier Initiative” back in ’92 when overseas bases were suddenly opened to foreign female whores and girlfriends?

My brick and mortar base in Germany literally became a sex dungeon overnight.

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

2 women to kill 7 men?

When the very first solo carrier landing was attempted by a woman, 11 men died.

Anonymous
Anonymous

which woman are you referring to?

The Deadly Consequences Of Feminist Propaganda In The US Navy

no male deaths.

just her.

do enlighten me.

Ned
Ned

Women wanted equality. Get out there and fight and die like a good American.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I understand the impulse. It’s like the bus driver who uppercutted the woman who punched him and spat on him. “If she wanna act like a man, imma treat her like a man…”. Maybe we should save that true equality for when we re-institute the draft. That way, when the oligarchs think about starting a war, their daughters would be at risk as well as their sons.

Treefarmer

What do you mean? The kids of the oligarchs always find a way around the draft.

Brian Reilly
Brian Reilly

The whole idea and goal of putting women into combat units is to degrade and destroy the ability (first) then the desire to engage in combat. The Progs believe (or say they believe) that nations with combat ready forces are a threat to global peace. Get rid of combat readiness, and then the desire to ever go into combat, and it will be pretty tough to stir up a war, so they think.

Imagine the news (if they let it out for reporting) of a female containing unit overrun, destroyed, or which surrenders. Next imagine the immediate physical predation imposed on whatever women are in that unit, streamed on You Tube perhaps. That will do wonders for morale and discipline, won’t it? Remember that poor female truck driver, caught in Iraq? Or that female chopper pilot shot down and captured? Probably not, but it was horrific rape from start to finish. We won’t have the chance to memory hole that next time.

There are not going to be many women in combat. There may be a lot of subjugated peoples, followed by a lot of heroic, courageous resistance by women operating guerilla-style maybe, but no armies. It just does not work. Never has, never will.

no one
no one

There are a few women quite capable of combat operations, however, they do not belong in units where they become a liability requiring additional protection.

Anonymous
Anonymous

How about this: No women are allowed to vote unless they register for the draft. Otherwise, no draft for anyone and universal suffrage. At the very least, the empire would not be able to force conscription onto the men. Aside from that, go ahead and get your head blown off and the men around you killed–because that’s what will happen.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Or just no women are allowed to vote.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

I served as a USMC officer in the mid-1970’s. During my tour on Okinawa I saw relatively few Women Marines (as they were officially known then). In fact, I can hardly remember seeing any at all. There were none in my unit. None, as in zero. Then I was assigned stateside to a major headquarters. Not only were there a huge number of women, my own boss was one of three or four female lt. colonels in the Corps at that time. Full disclosure. I liked and respected my boss who, despite being a fairly senior Marine officer and being tough as hell, was 100 percent a woman, even when she was chewing somebody out (never me, we got along great; she despised by immediate superior, a smarmy little shit who groveled to her – I learned quite a bit about women from that lady).

The headquarters unit was about half female and at that time the Marine Corps openly recruited young girls for their looks. The battalion was full of very good-looking 18-20 year-old girls. Guess the rest of the story……

Half the officers in the place were banging privates and lance corporals. One particular stunner was actually living off base with three officers. We went on a field exercise once and a WM took on an entire MP platoon on a picnic table. Was I immune? Not at all, though I did not actually bed any of the enlisted women. I came close. One pretty little blond from Oregon had her eye on me and I almost – almost! – forgot Marine Corps regulations. There were lesbians in the mix as well though oddly enough they did not seem to be especially common. Needless to say, discipline in the unit was a joke.

Stories from the nearby Navy base were even worse.

The bottom line is that women will be women and men will be men. Women will ALWAYS use sex to get what they want. Men with an erection have no sense of morals or decency. Full stop. You can court martial the whole damn world and it will make no difference.

As for service in any kind of military field unit, please!!!!!

The morons who argue for women in the military, much less the combat units, do not know what the hell they are talking about. No woman belongs anywhere near a field unit of any kind. I remember well the pathetic female Sad Sacks I saw in Afghanistan. Slack-jawed, slovenly, slutty. If this is what a woman wants, ugh!

Oh, but the Israelis use women in their army! Uh, no they don’t, and neither do the Russians, except in appropriate roles. Yes, they employed them briefly in emergencies and, in the case of Russia in World War II, in some combat roles. The results of these experiments were so gruesome and terrible for the women that even the Russians said, “Enough!”.

We have not fought a tough conventional enemy for a long, long time. If, God forbid, we do, all of this blather about women in combat units will soon go by the wayside. Count on it.

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

If the first casualty of war is the truth, the second is anything and anyone nonessential.

Overthecliff
Overthecliff

The real military officers have resigned rather than be a part of this politically correct policy. The assholes that are left are going to get a lot of people killed including the women they put in harms way. There is a reason that women have not been soldiers for 6,00o years.

My daughter was a soldier and a good one but was not capable of doing what the average man her size could do. 5’2″.110 lbs.

Ottomatik
Ottomatik

The author must of missed Full Metal Bitch in that Tom cruise movie.
Kidding, just kidding.
Once one realizes that a concentrated effort to destroy America has been ongoing then all of the above makes perfect sense.

Anonymous
Anonymous

the irony of full metal bitch was that it took a concerted effort of men dying over and over and over again just to get her to the point where she could get out alive

Stucky

Anyone who thinks womenz can’t fight obviously isn’t familiar with Wonder Woman.

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Some linguists believe that “Amazon” derives from the Greek “a” meaning “without”, and “mazon” meaning “breast”. Literally, Amazons womenz had no tits. Now, I submit that any woman who has the balls to cut off her tits is more than able to fight in combat alongside a man.

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls

Classic Stuck reasoning. Hard to argue with that one.

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls

If your goal was to reduce world population, you would encourage women in the military big time.

Brian
Brian

More fuel for the fire.

Deployed US Navy Has a Pregnancy Problem, and It’s Getting Worse

Was on an all male cruiser, then sent over to an integrated carrier. Night and day the difference in atmosphere and climate. The carrier was high school relived.

Worse still the nuke ranks have a near constant struggle to maintain retention and staffing. The nuke world is a miserable life for most, hence the retention problems. We had people on the cruiser who were “feasting for freedom”. Eating non stop in the hopes of getting fat enough to fail PRT standards and be booted from the navy.
Now you mix women into this area with no reduction in the misery. They get disillusioned and sick of it. They have an ace card: get pregnant. Pooof! They’re off the ship. Leaving holes in the watchbill for those poor bastards that remain to fill, increasing the misery level more. Now compound that with these woman who may now fill coveted shore duty billets. Reducing a males chance of getting one, thereby forcing him to remain at sea or take a shitty shore duty billet. This will reduce his desire to stay in, possibly damaging retention more.

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

Get them the hell out of combat aircraft too.

The Navy had to lower it’s jet fighter pilot standards TEN TIMES until the first woman was “qualified.”

The very first time a female attempted a solo carrier landing, 11 men died.

Repeal the 16th, before it’s too late.

On second thought, just oil your guns and restack your food, because it is too late.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“The very first time a female attempted a solo carrier landing, 11 men died.”

is this who you’re talking about?

why does no article I find on her reference anyone else dying but her?

22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor
22winmag - Q is a Psyop and Trump is lead actor

I can’t find it for the life of me, but whoever the woman was, she was SOLO and there was a fireball on deck. There was actually a video but I can’t find it for the life of me and I’m sure it’s since been memory-holed.

Anonymous
Anonymous

you’re probably thinking of this.

https://www.businessinsider.com/flight-students-attempt-to-land-on-an-aircraft-carrier-was-a-disaster-2016-8

(super hot secret: it was a dude! and he was still classified as a “student pilot” and the death toll was only 5)

there’s some good eyewitness stories on the youtube video at the bottom of the article.

Pequiste
Pequiste

An awesome terrible video.

Carrier landings – how the heck do those pilots do it? Now let’s make it the ultimate test for any human capability: night carrier landings. Gulp.

noBabel
noBabel

The people making these decisions are smart enough to climb to those heights of power, so they aren’t stupid.

Doing this to the military is clearly stupid and leads to degradation.

Therefore the leaders making these decisions have reasons to degrade our military.

Hmmm…

TampaRed
TampaRed

these 2 belong in combat on suicide missions–
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Pequiste
Pequiste

I just vomited in my mouth.

Anonymous
Anonymous

That’s a queer saying…

22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernerbygraceofgod
22winmag - Unreconstructedsouthernerbygraceofgod

Meanwhile… former military bitches are sucking up to special interest groups in preparation to run for President.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tulsi-gabbard-apologizes-to-lgbtq-community-over-past-rhetoric-stances-2019-1

She’s articulate, reasonably attractive, and a LEFT WING LIBERAL posing as a moderate.

In other words, very electable.

2008, 2012 Nigger President
2016 Jew President
2020 Menstrual President

MARK MY WORDS

no one
no one

Good points to think about. I’ll try to get back with my opinion about women in combat-related roles.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Dare I say it : combat is not for everybody actually it’s not for anybody with a thimble full of common sense , it’s bad all bad !
As for women in combat there is not much choice with 70% of the male population 18 to 24 unfit for military service either physically or mentally . Ok ladies real equality is right there waiting for you just sign up for the selective service on your 18th birthday and start working out , M60 belts are heavy !

Anonymous
Anonymous

That’s ridiculous, all democrap women should be required to serve on the front line.

USCitizen
USCitizen

Deliberately putting our wives and daughters anywhere near combat a very bad idea. Not trying to be sexist but women can have babies. Men cannot. Also men are simply stronger and more athletic.

A people, a country can suffer many casualties in war but if their women are safe, the population does not suffer. The birthrate does not suffer. The culture and people are preserved.

It is a poor society that would do that. It is just plain stupid and lacks common sense, but hey, common sense has long ago left the minds of the Modern Day Leftists.

justsayin
justsayin

The purpose of war is to eliminate excess (young) males. Killing women, children, and elder males is to be avoided.

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