I saw it when I was in the U.S. Army 30 years ago: women in combat zones. It just doesn’t work.
When I was posted to West Germany from 1979-82, our unit, a field intelligence unit, had many women in it. One of them was a young wife who was 6 months pregnant when we went on field maneuvers in the Fulda Gap, where the Soviet offensive would have blitzed us.
6 months pregnant? Out on maneuvers in an Army truck? Insane.
We treated her well, of course. She sat in our commo (communications) truck and made coffee. A 6-months pregnant woman can’t string barbed wire, carry heavy radios and encryption equipment, or even lift an M-16 more than a few yards.
And let me stress, again, that this was peacetime.
Yet all presidents, from Carter and Reagan and Bush Uno, to Clinton and Bush Dos, have abetted such abominations.
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—More than 80 percent of a sample of Air Force women deployed in Iraq and other areas around the world report suffering from persistent fatigue, fever, hair loss and difficulty concentrating, according to a University of Michigan study.
The pattern of health problems reported by 1,114 women surveyed in 2006 and 2007 is similar to many symptoms of Gulf War Syndrome, the controversial condition reported by veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
“It is possible that some unknown environmental factor is the cause of current health problems and of Gulf War Syndrome,” said U-M researcher Penny Pierce.
“But it is also possible that these symptoms result from the stress of military deployment, especially prolonged and multiple deployments.”
War is bad enough on men, but even worse on women. Men were designed by God — or evolution, if you will — to bear the stresses of war. Since time immemorial, there have been wars and rumors of wars, fought by men. And a main motivation of wars for men is to keep their womenfolk safe.
It’s only modern, feminized, de-masculinized, Neoconnized America that imposes this absurd experiment on women gullible enough to enlist. Well, at least women aren’t drafted — yet.
Instead of sending even one woman into a combat zone, we should send Bush Uno, Bush Dos, both Clintons, Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, every Neocon ever heard of, and anybody else who supports these wars.
Women don’t belong in arms, their arms belong holding babies.
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August 30, 2008 at 11:16 am |
When we went to the field in the 1970’s we did one Reforger with one cook who was 6 months pregnant. We couldn’t afford to have her siting around in an office (must have been great to be in your unit) so she continued to be a cook. My guess is if you’d seen this you’d have been complaining about this as well … how dare a woman not live her life around your expectations.