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Women in combat situations
In 2013, the US military lifted its ban on women serving in combat. Shortly after, the Marine Corps began what it calls an “unprecedented research effort” to understand the impact of gender integration on its combat forces. That took the form of a year-long experiment called the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force, in which 400 Marines—100 of them female—trained for combat together and then undertook a simulated deployment, with every facet of their experience measured and scrutinized.
All branches of the military are facing a January 1, 2016, deadline to open all combat roles to women. The Marine Corps is using this experiment to decide whether to request exceptions to that mandate. The Corps’ summary of the experiment, posted online today by NPR, concludes that combat teams were less effective when they included women.
Overall, the report says, all-male teams and crews outperformed mixed-gender ones on 93 out of 134 tasks evaluated. All-male teams were universally faster “in each tactical movement.” On “lethality,” the report says:
All-male 0311 (rifleman) infantry squads had better accuracy compared to gender-integrated squads. There was a notable difference between genders for every individual weapons system (i.e. M4, M27, and M203) within the 0311 squads, except for the probability of hit & near miss with the M4.
And:
All-male infantry crew-served weapons teams engaged targets quicker and registered more hits on target as compared to gender-integrated infantry crew-served weapons teams, with the exception of M2 accuracy.
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My Thoughts:
Like I’ve said over and over again, the whole concept of a military unit, no matter where they are at, changes with the influx of females into the unit; it’s just a fact of life and in a combat situation, it’s even worse, yea they can shoot and all of that, but the overall physical abilities of a woman is detrimental to the fighting unit.
I retired from the Navy in 91 and during my time I can attest to what I said. Whenever we had females in the mix the unit’s overall effectiveness was altered. When I was the security officer in Gitmo we had female’s attached to my unit’s and a week didn’t go by when I had to put out various fires all the time, -IE- It’s my time of the month, it’s too hot out there. You get the picture, there are just some areas in the military they are unsuited for, it’s not being racist, it’s just a fact of life.
In 2013, the US military lifted its ban on women serving in combat. Shortly after, the Marine Corps began what it calls an “unprecedented research effort” to understand the impact of gender integration on its combat forces. That took the form of a year-long experiment called the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force, in which 400 Marines—100 of them female—trained for combat together and then undertook a simulated deployment, with every facet of their experience measured and scrutinized.
All branches of the military are facing a January 1, 2016, deadline to open all combat roles to women. The Marine Corps is using this experiment to decide whether to request exceptions to that mandate. The Corps’ summary of the experiment, posted online today by NPR, concludes that combat teams were less effective when they included women.
Overall, the report says, all-male teams and crews outperformed mixed-gender ones on 93 out of 134 tasks evaluated. All-male teams were universally faster “in each tactical movement.” On “lethality,” the report says:
All-male 0311 (rifleman) infantry squads had better accuracy compared to gender-integrated squads. There was a notable difference between genders for every individual weapons system (i.e. M4, M27, and M203) within the 0311 squads, except for the probability of hit & near miss with the M4.
And:
All-male infantry crew-served weapons teams engaged targets quicker and registered more hits on target as compared to gender-integrated infantry crew-served weapons teams, with the exception of M2 accuracy.
Sent from a friend
My Thoughts:
Like I’ve said over and over again, the whole concept of a military unit, no matter where they are at, changes with the influx of females into the unit; it’s just a fact of life and in a combat situation, it’s even worse, yea they can shoot and all of that, but the overall physical abilities of a woman is detrimental to the fighting unit.
I retired from the Navy in 91 and during my time I can attest to what I said. Whenever we had females in the mix the unit’s overall effectiveness was altered. When I was the security officer in Gitmo we had female’s attached to my unit’s and a week didn’t go by when I had to put out various fires all the time, -IE- It’s my time of the month, it’s too hot out there. You get the picture, there are just some areas in the military they are unsuited for, it’s not being racist, it’s just a fact of life.
