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Free Republic is running a thread titled, 'Gen. Dempsey: If Women Can’t Meet Military Standard, Pentagon ... Have to Be That High?', which was started 1/25/2013 by 'george76'
The thread references a 1/25/2013 CNS News article written by Pete Winn - http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gen-...it-really-have
View the complete Free Republic thread at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2981854/posts
Excerpt:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that with women now eligible to fill combat roles in the military, commanders must justify why any woman might be excluded – and, if women can’t meet any unit’s standard, the Pentagon will ask: “Does it really have to be that high?”
Dempsey’s comments came at a Pentagon news conference with Defense Sec. Leon Panetta Thursday, announcing the shift in Defense Department policy opening up all combat positions to women.
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“Importantly, though, if we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn't make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high? With the direct combat exclusion provision in place, we never had to have that conversation.”
The following is an excerpt from COMMENT #23, by 'DustyMoment', in the thread:
And, thus begins the final push to wreck what has been the best military in the world.
Kids can't pass their finals to graduate? Lower the standards. Too dumb to get into college? Lower the standards. People too fat to be accepted in the military? Lower the standards. Peaople can't meet the standards required of combat soldiers? Lower the standards.
Since lowering the standards for any institution or requirement that the left wants to destroy is what we do, why have them? Why (Constitution aside) have standards for POTUS, Congress, or SCOTUS? Why have standards for lawyers, teachers, dentists, doctors or engineers? Why bother seeking the best of the best instead of the next person in line? What's wrong with having a president who is 4 years-old (Obama)?
This is just the next step in the destruction of this country. As it stands now, our military has been so deeply cut and is stretched so thin that we would have a hard time defeating the military of Holland.
Ignorant foreign governments still send their military here to learn from us so that, in a future war, we may not only have to fight the enemy, but fight our own tactics and strategies as well. Smart. And, when foreign military students take their training elsewhere such as Russia, China or Germany, will that be a wake-up call for us? I doubt it. We will have lowered the standards so much that no one will understand the implications.
If lowering the standards is the left's answer to everything (including citizenship), why not drop the pretense that we're a real country? Let's drop everything that represents America and just become a giant commune with no rules, no borders and no requirements.
If you can't tell, I am beyond disgusted.
The thread references a 1/25/2013 CNS News article written by Pete Winn - http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gen-...it-really-have
View the complete Free Republic thread at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2981854/posts
Excerpt:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday that with women now eligible to fill combat roles in the military, commanders must justify why any woman might be excluded – and, if women can’t meet any unit’s standard, the Pentagon will ask: “Does it really have to be that high?”
Dempsey’s comments came at a Pentagon news conference with Defense Sec. Leon Panetta Thursday, announcing the shift in Defense Department policy opening up all combat positions to women.
...
“Importantly, though, if we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn't make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high? With the direct combat exclusion provision in place, we never had to have that conversation.”
The following is an excerpt from COMMENT #23, by 'DustyMoment', in the thread:
And, thus begins the final push to wreck what has been the best military in the world.
Kids can't pass their finals to graduate? Lower the standards. Too dumb to get into college? Lower the standards. People too fat to be accepted in the military? Lower the standards. Peaople can't meet the standards required of combat soldiers? Lower the standards.
Since lowering the standards for any institution or requirement that the left wants to destroy is what we do, why have them? Why (Constitution aside) have standards for POTUS, Congress, or SCOTUS? Why have standards for lawyers, teachers, dentists, doctors or engineers? Why bother seeking the best of the best instead of the next person in line? What's wrong with having a president who is 4 years-old (Obama)?
This is just the next step in the destruction of this country. As it stands now, our military has been so deeply cut and is stretched so thin that we would have a hard time defeating the military of Holland.
Ignorant foreign governments still send their military here to learn from us so that, in a future war, we may not only have to fight the enemy, but fight our own tactics and strategies as well. Smart. And, when foreign military students take their training elsewhere such as Russia, China or Germany, will that be a wake-up call for us? I doubt it. We will have lowered the standards so much that no one will understand the implications.
If lowering the standards is the left's answer to everything (including citizenship), why not drop the pretense that we're a real country? Let's drop everything that represents America and just become a giant commune with no rules, no borders and no requirements.
If you can't tell, I am beyond disgusted.