As far as polls go, 17% isn’t a huge number. But when you’re talking about 17% of the United States Marine Corps quitting if women join their ranks in combat it’s a pretty big deal.
A Marine Corps survey found about 17 percent of male Marine respondents who planned to stay in the service or were undecided said they would likely leave if women move into combat positions.
That number jumped to 22 percent if women are assigned involuntarily to those jobs, according to the survey.
Also listed among the top concerns by male Marines about the policy change were fears about being falsely accused of sexual harassment or assault, fraternization, and preferential treatment of some Marines. (Read More)
Not that this administration cares. Just look at the complete idiot Obama has nominated for defense secretary. It’s like they’re trying to destroy the military. And we’re supposed to think Hagel was prepped for weeks before his confirmation hearing? They really do think we’re stupid.
Forget women in combat, how many will quit if this anti-American numbskull is confirmed?
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The libs are just destroying the competition so they and and “BIG” whatever can have free rein. Enact Obamacare and Dodd/Frank to destroy medium and small business. With help from PC officers and nimrods like Hagel they weaken the military to lessen any threat it may pose.
These are really sad times in America.
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[...] The Lonely Conservative noted a Poll Shows 17% Of Male Marines Would Quit If Women Serve In Combat. [...]
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So call me oppressed…I’m as patriotic and capable as any female, but we really do not have a place in combat. There are far too many psychological hurdles for both male and female troops at this time. We’re not the Soviet Union or Israel; equal combat is not part of our experience, and I don’t really see any added value in it while at the same time males in this country are still programmed, on some level, to worry about and protect females. Have you ever been in an emergency situation with a child or elderly person present? It’s difficult to just do what you need to do when you feel you have to also protect that person….women in jets in combat? Sure. We multi-task really well. On the ground with a firearm? We can do it, sure—but is it the best strategy? I still think not. I don’t see an added value and that really should be the question–not the “feelings” of female soldiers. I’m pretty “liberated” but I recognize the differences between male and female and I don’t have a problem with that reality. There are many crucial positions for women to fill and free up men to do other things, and they are no less valuable for that decision. Although, if Sandra Fluke wants to join up and charge into battle I say let her go!
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The only reason why this is an issue at all is because NONE of the combat that US forces face is in the interest of national defense, except the initial attack against the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11, but that should have been over in a few weeks to a few months. The battles and squirmishes are real and deadly enough, but they have little bearing on national security or defense of the homeland. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Mali, Iran, etc… Where will it end? At least Reagan had the sense to pull out of Lebanon when he realized that to engage only meant more senseless death for our troops after losing 241 marines in a single attack. The vast majority of military campaigns are committed to at the whim of the power brokers to order other sovereign nations how to act, who to trade with, or else to redirect our attention to these made-up threats from made-up bogeymen overseas from the looters in Washington stealing our own citizen’s individual wealth. Heck, some of these bogeymen “threatening” you are even our own citizens, like “evil” cigarette smokers or drug users. Even gays wanting to steal your definition of marriage that should be between you, your spouse, and your god; not you and the state. Divide and conquer, steal and plunder. They’re quite good at it.
Marines won’t quit. Quit and go where? They have bills to pay, and the powers-that-be have effectively destroyed American small business with over-regulation and drove big business to employ workers overseas rather than at home through over-taxation and “free-trade” agreements. It’s how they raise an all-volunteer army to run around the world telling others what to do, by taking away opportunity from the masses looking for employment.
The fact is that the concept of facing 100 million+ civilian gun owners is a formidible enough defense that few countries have to dissuade against invasion by those even with the strongest of armies. If foreign troops were marching up the street here in a do or die scenario, these people not wanting to see women in combat would certainly be shouting, “Annie grab your gun!” It’s just another distraction. Don’t let them disarm you. It’s the last defense we have.
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That’s part of the plan
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