Equality should be actual equality. Not just grabbing the good stuff and pushing for not having to deal with the shit too. This is a step in the right direction as long as women do not have lower standards than the men do for actually making it.
Equality should be actual equality. Not just grabbing the good stuff and pushing for not having to deal with the shit too. This is a step in the right direction as long as women do not have lower standards than the men do for actually making it.
They get lighter guns. "Ermahgerd equaliteh", yeh well, if you insist on drafting women and expect them to carry heavy equipment like a large man, then they're damned if they do damned if they don't.
I am all for women being allowed on the frontline, but ONLY, if they pass in the same capacity as a man, for whatever they're aspiring to do. However, in terms of efficiency, women do, overall, have less upper body strength, and thus less overall capacity for carrying around heavier weapons, but there are lighter weapons that can serve the purpose they're needed for.
They don't have to pass training for fun dude.
If draft has to happen at all, yeh, fine, draft women as well, it's only fair treatment, but I would personally prefer that nobody get drafted whatsoever.
This is fantastic news if true.
First, women should be drafted, there is no longer an excuse they cannot serve and if need be die defending this great nation.
Second, such legislature could prove a reinstatement of the military draft is imminent. This would be a huge boon for the economy and a huge boon to today's snowflake youth who need a nice swift kick in the rear. Nothing is handed to you, you need to work for it, nothing would be as valuable a lesson as performing at a high level in the military.
And finally, this would send a huge, dramatic message to the inferior countries who think America is a pushover. Trump is not playing around, you fly off the handle, you face the wraith of the mighty American military who have no equal.
Jimmy Thick- Eight years for Trump!
I don't care who fights because I'm sure as hell not fighting.
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Really? How come nobody thought of that before? Oh wait, they did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector
This is really such a moot argument in this day and age. The US army is so overfunded there should be no reason they would ever need to call for a draft. In this era, war is fought with technology and with the looming threat of nukes... less so men storming the beach on D day in a numbers battle.
wow tijuana you have singlehandedly solved the problem, you are so clever. there must be absolutely no desertions or suicides in the military then.
when i went through boot camp every day there would be someone who would break down in tears (usually the males) and beg to go back home. and then there were those who would attempt suicide or have depression and whatnot after getting to their first unit. that was those who *voluntarily signed up.*
people dont realize what theyve gotten into, they change their mind, etc etc. i can only imagine it would be orders of magnitudes worse with a forced draft.
so to my view you are essentially advocating for more dead weight.
i never asserted that, but i find your advocating forcing it onto people to be disgusting. let people decide for themselves if they are capable or willing to do military service. if they dont want to defend their country in time of need forcing them to will only bog down those who are willing.
US Military is underfunded and US Army is undermanned for the missions civilians given to them. My best friend did two tours in Afghanistan and is going back for a third next week as a contractor (which is how the US says it is "bringing the troops home" without actually doing it), this time making nearly $200,000. And there are guys who did four and five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
its fucking hilarious, I can do a little search and find hundreds of army-woman topics where people insist women can do army stuff, marine training etc, but when the shit gets real, it is wrong direction? are you fucking kidding?