It’s a little late to be discussing military standards now.

Standards went out the window last year.

Hog Wild on February 11, 2013 at 10:46 PM

I’m in the dark. Are you talking about gays in the military stuff or other changes to physical standards?

The standard will be lowered, and our people will die.

Gender-neutral occupational standards will need to be developed…

This does not mean that standards will necessarily be changed; it only means that occupational standards will be developed and/or tested in billets for which the only previous criterion was being male.

What the heck does this mean?

Why do standards need to be developed or tested just because women are becoming candidates. It should be assumed that the existing standards existed for a reason.

and thats where the problems would start.

AndStatistics on February 11, 2013 at 10:26 PM

Yep.

If the standards remained as they are, there would be no problem – or at least no more of a problem than there is with having women in combat at all, of which there are several. Perhaps one woman in the history of the SEAL corp would have ever passed BUDS, and even that is merely statistical conjecture. I’ve certainly never met her.

But the media will start ginning up hype for the first woman SEAL, and the pressure will come, and they’ll start passing.

And soldiers (well, technically sailors) will die. Because women cannot be as effective fighters as men. I’m sorry, let me say that again: women cannot be as effective as fighters as men. One more time, for the Harvard faculty who are “nauseated” to hear these things: women cannot be as effective as fighters as men. At the level of performance where the best are put in situations where often even the best is not good enough, that’s going to get people killed. And worse, imperil missions.

When you get that high, you aren’t military anymore– you are a politician. And you usually reflect the administration you are under, and this one is especially parasitic..

melle1228 on February 11, 2013 at 9:59 PM

And the sad thing is at one time many, some of these guys were of the “kick ass and take names” persuasion. Now they are too stupid to realize they are Obama’s—or any administration’s coffee boys.

Standards went out the window last year.