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Originally Posted by waiting4something
I think it's great that they are able to do this. However, I think we are not yet ready for co-ed infantry. I always thought that serving with women would never be a big deal. Then I did a short term duty in the Marines with a combined joint task force that had some. This was reinforced again years later when did a few years in the Army National Guard. Guys are still guys and chicks are still chicks. Some of the females were cool and I respected fully. Others always got treated with kid gloves. Then you always got separate barracks so finding them at times was a bitch. Then all the PC Army crap these days makes you want to scream. I know I am going be the bad guy here.
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if it is wrong it is wrong!
Problems need to be addressed, politically correct or not. That said, I worked with women in a variety of roles in Law enforcement. I trained them and watched them do the job. Some were good, some were fair and some were not worth a (popular word for excrement).
I trained a lot more males some were well you know the rest I am sure.
Did they end up doing the job the same way, Of course not? But they got the job done.
Now, what do they have to handle? This is the good old walk a mile in their mocks thing. Thinking as a women, and I am very poor at this, What happens if I am too nice to someone ? What happens if I am to friendly? What happens if I am too masculine?
Ok have those and few hundred other similar thoughts I can see why some “handled” things by being standoffish.
My youngest daughter thought about a carrier in the Army as an Officer, started with ROTC and then found out she was not going to be selected for Airborne or Ranger or be able to participate in a combat role, well you get the picture.
She was at first angry then disappointed then resigned, she quit the ROTC and finished her degree in Criminal justice and political science. Her brother did not want to go into the service and she was saddened that hers was the first generation of my family that did not serve.
By the Way my daughter is a better shot then her police officer husband and can throw a tomahawk and knife well enough to place in the top five in the nation at the National muzzle loading Association finals three times. She can shot over my shoulder any day and I have put my life in her hands on two occasions in the mountains here in the Rockies. She would have served with distinction.