The Hill: Marine general predicts lower combat standards for women
Marine Gen. John Kelly on Friday said he fears that commanders will be pressured by "agenda-driven people" in Washington to lower military standards in order to allow more women into combat positions.
"My greatest fear — and we see this happen a lot over the 45 years I've been in the Armed Forces is, right now they're saying we are not going to change any standards," said Kelly, who is retiring this month, at his last Pentagon briefing.
"So I think it will be the pressure for not probably the generals that are here now, but for the generals to come, and admirals, to lower standards because that's the only way it'll work in the way that I hear some people, particularly, the agenda-driven people here in Washington ... they want it to work," he said.
Update #1: Opening Combat Jobs to Women Will Mean Lower Standards: Marine General -- Military.com
Update #2: Marine Corps debate over women in combat continues to roil -- AP
Update #3: Marine Gen. fears 'pressure' to lower standards to admit more women -- CNN
WNU Editor: Marine Gen. John Kelly is retiring at the end of this month .... so he does not care to say things that will make the senior leadership in the Pentagon and in the White House not happy to hear.
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Finally a Marine who speaks truth to power. Dunford said the F-35 is combat capable (not), Neller said he would promote full integration w/o lowering standards (impossible).
Women in the infantry will destroy the Army and the Marine Corps.
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The USMC has probably one of the better breastfeeding policies of all the services, with a 6-month deferment from deployment and the requirement of a clean, secluded space with running water for pumping. Break times are not specified, but instead are left to you and your supervisor on a case-by-case basis. Breastfeeding does not exempt you from going to the field for training or other TDY assignments. Maternity leave is extended to 18 weeks.
Oh goody.
There was a battle, where women, old men, and children defeated a Pawnee war party.
The Sioux men were away hunting buffalo. The battle is remarkable, because the outcome was unexpected. You usually expect women with good justification to get beat. I believe in arming women. But I live in making them the 2nd or 3rd line of defense.
One wonders if the TPTB will mess with Marine Gen. John Kelly's future job prospects so as to discourage any honest discussion at all.
Among the specific purposes of integrating women into combat positions (with rumored mandates of up to 25% quotas) is to destroy combat capability. The other reasons are to further careers of women (and DOD civil servants) who are female while simultaneously cutting down the influence of actual warriors, and to "demascluinize" another element of society as part of Marxist/feminist ideology. The guys sitting around trying to do some scientific argument on standards are beyond clueless as to what's going on.
So long as the USMC continues to remove people like Lt. Col. Kate Germano, or continue with policies that treat women like girls (or men like boys) there will be no hope for integration. If you can do a hard job than you should be allowed to do the hard job. This country belongs to women as much as it does men, but tough standards should remain tough. Even men fail at these jobs and I've worked with some very tough women who deserve the same opportunities as I do.
Throughout history there are examples of how a specific group of people were thought to be incapable of fighting as professional soldiers... The people who underestimated the abilities of those groups suffered for it.
I believe there should be no married couples under E-5, a female who gets pregnant while serving gets an automatic general discharge, and everyone is held to the same tough standards.
Matthew,
I agree 100%. Combat is a equal opportunity M-F-r and only respects results. Ignoring potential ability to fight and the screwing with standards is asking for a world of hurt.
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