Should Women be allowed to serve in hand to hand combat in the military?

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deaththekid

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So if i give up work to stay home and be a film wife will you then come and help my husband pay the bills?
I work as does my husband to support my family so does that make me not worth having as a wife?
 
For once i agree with you. However, you seem to believe that this would exclude all women in practise, which I doubt. But there's no point in lowering the physical strength required for women - its not a test of how hard you're trying but whether you're fit for the job.
 
If she's got my back, I've trained with her and know her capabilities. According to what I've said previously, if she can do the job and wants to, great. So based on those two statements, in general I'd think that she can do the job, and I'd have the confidence in her abilities to do so, since I'd trained with her.

But of course there are people that can't perform as well as others. With this example, you might be better off than with a small male that had little ability.


And Hunter.....

DAM! That's just sexist, to say that women are only good for breeding. And arrogant to make a statement that suggests you know God's will.
 
I guess, but how many women have black belts........I personally don't believe most women want to be in hand to hand combat with men twice their size.......As I said the few that do, if they can meet the physical requirements so be it.................

Personally, I am 6'2" 195 lbs and would prefer someone of that stature at my back, but that is just me..........
 
Serving in combat and hand to hand combat are two separate issues..........Serving in combat itself may be up for debate but serving in hand to hand combat is a definite no..........If I am in a foxhole and in hand to hand combat I want some 6'2" 200 lb guy like me watching my back, not some 5' 100 lb female...........
 
When was the last time the US was involved in a war where hand-to-hand combat was a prevalent requirement? Korea? Even in Vietnam tunnel rats were about the only actual contact engagements. Everything since has been a stress on firepower against lesser forces to provide politically acceptable casualties with US troops engaging and withdrawing to fortified encampments with all the comforts of home including email. Foxholes, right. John Wayne and his movies died a long time ago. In news photos of troops in action in Iraq, such as that may be, I've never seen a bayonet fixed on an M16 for 'hand-to-hand' fighting.
 
I'm the same height, but I lost the extra weight. It doesn't matter. I've had to deal with some violent situations in my time, I know how to deal with the average street brawler, but I've also known at least a half-dozen women who could take me down because they had spent years developing superior skills. I'd rather have one of them at my back than you any day.
 
That's no joke, but consider this: You're 5'8" and weigh-in at about 150LB and the soldier next to you weighs 200LB, no fat, and stanRAB 6'2" - a female.

This female is built for battle, not like the females that meet us at the door each afternoon.
 
No. A woman only has 60% of the upper body strength of a typical man. It is just a physical fact and political correctness is no way to run a military.
 
I have to wonder what our nation is coming to and the depths that American manhood has sunk to, to let our women go and fight our fights.

I think the protection of our daughters, wives and mothers should trump our neeRAB to be politically correct. They should be protected at all costs.

I know that makes me sound pretty old fashioned but I can live with that. Chivalry is not dead in my family yet.
 
I think if a woman is able, she should be allowed to have any job she desires. Same as men - if you can do the job, you should be allowed to do the job. It's about competence, not sex.

Missouri Mule, I agree 100% about not doing things by the :xcensored "political correctness". "PC" is complete bull droppings.
 
Sometimes in life you have to put politcal correctness aside and just fo the right thing.....

There are things that women can do that men can not and vice versa.........

I have never been in hand to hand combat but if I were and I had a bunch of guys trying to kill me I would want someone of my statue and strength to watch my back......I am 6'2" 195 lbs and can bench press 225 lbs.........Most women just can't do that...........Its not a knock on them its just a fact..........
 
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