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Navy SEALs.................................WTH
The SEALs have gone gender neutral and opened their ranks to females.
This is the kind of stuff that really messes up a unit and has no positive impact. I call things like this "No Value Added". What is this change going to do to improve the unit or make them better soldiers. Why do they need women? Is their a shortage of men willing to become SEALs? I doubt it.
This will probably be moved to politics even though it has nothing to do with politics.
RLTW
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A warrior leader knows this is stupidity and will refuse to put females in Seal units. Since those over the warriors are bureaucrats in todays military the warrior loses most of the battles.
I saw Demi Moore intigrate the Navy SEAL's quite a while back in GI Jane. It was on TV it had to be true. Right?
I distinctly remember going on our longest Forced March in Basic, (22 mi.?) We (the Guys) were carrying about everything we had. The Women who also "appeared" to carrying full packs were keeping up. (Woah.....)
When we got to our bivvy area, all the Women's gear was unloaded off Deuce and a halfs. They had been carrying wadded up newspaper, etc.
Pathetic.
If they can't legitimately fulfill the same standards, they have no business being there.
Been in the fire service since 1983 . Lots of females have come and gone . I can count on one hand the number who have measured up to the same standards the men have had to meet . Two of whom I would welcome on my team any time , some of the best smoke eaters I ever worked with . If you can do the job then welcome if not don’t let the foot hit you on the way out
The result of all this "equality BS" is the lowering of standards.
When the minority candidates cannot achieve the lower standard they claim it is because they are/were oppressed therefore never stood a chance.
They demand, and are awarded, the position as compensation for being disadantaged.
Look at each and everyone of our government agencies! Screwed up beyond use. (I retired from government service after 35 years spent in the military and several agencies)
For a list of awarded incompetents see:
mayors,
governors,
senators,
congress things
And our previous president?... a woman and her 2 daughters standing in line behind me at the polls were giddy with excitement about "being a part of history to elect the first black president". Result - worst president in my lifetime.
Then, they tried to elect our first female president simply because "It is time for a woman president!"
My wife and I were excited over the opportunity to put a competent person in the office who would try to keep their promises.
I would vote for a green, tri-sexual martian if they were qualified, halfway honest and patriotic.
Restore our standards and give the jobs to the most qualified, whether it is The Navy Seals, public office, police, fire, truck driver or dog catcher. If it is a white male, so be it.
WE ARE DOOMED!
The only consolation is I'm old and will not be alive to see the collapse of these great United States.
I cry for my grand children.
ELLICOTT CITY, MD – Today, County Executive Calvin Ball announced a new government position, the Equity and Restorative Practices Manager, whose role will identify any practices or policies needed to ensure equity; recommend and implement training and competency-building; develop strategic community partnerships. Through restorative practices, the leader in this position will help our community in strengthening relationships and building social connections. Ball also announced the renaming of the Office of Human Rights to the Office of Human Rights and Equity. Pictures from the event can be found here, and video can be found here."
I wish I knew what this means.
Neal
In the eighties I was a paremedic at Baldwin County, Georgia, EMS. I am the guy in the back on the right side with the beard.
Twenty full time medics and all were guys. In 1985, we hired the first female. Over the next 9 years we hired 14 females. Some full time some part time.
Half of those gals could not lift a stretcher with the average size patient on it, which was a 170 pound patient.
Several times, a female would drop the stretcher with the patient on board, the male medic had to reach over and grab the other side to try to keep the patient from falling on the concrete, and the male medic injured his back and had to have medical care.
If you can't lift a stretcher, you ain't an EMT. You need to get an LPN certificate and go to work in the hospital.
In the face of male EMTs, and patients getting injured due to incompetent females, nobody ever asked if the females were qualified to do the job. And this in one of the most conservative areas of the country, a long long way from Manhattan or San Francisco.
Feminists such as Hillary had decreed that females were equal, and that was the end of the discussion.
I don't doubt that you can find a female, maybe one in a hundred, who can do the same work as a man, and if so, bring her on.
We did have 7 female medics who could lift the stretcher and some of them were good medics. But the physical demands of being a paramedic are a far, far cry from the demands of being a firefighter, or a Navy SEAL. Not even close.
On 9/11, three hundred forty three firefighters were killed in the twin towers. How many were female? Zero.
When it is pay day, the girls are front and center, but when it is time to strap on 73 pounds of bunker gear and climb 103 stories of stairs in the smoke and fire, the girls are absent from duty.
Anything with 'restorative practices' and 'equity' in the title is going to be highly suspect.
Restorative practices are akin to reparations and will be implemented to correct the inequity of outcome that exists, without bothering to ensure, confirm, or even check to see if equity in opportunity exists.
Perhaps I am just too jaded, but this has been a bad year for the rational advancement of civil rights.
Brad Steele
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I'm not sure why this thread was moved to Politics, as the Military sub forum would have been more appropriate.