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Originally Posted by arch13
In otherwords, do you advocate no women in mission critical situations, or no mixing of genders, or both?
If you would like to speak on the side of no women is mission critical situations, would you be so kind as to provide an explanation as to why so we may better understand your point of view
(again, I am not attacking you, just hoping to distill some of what you are saying to better understand your position)
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No, i don't want to get into more examples, because then the discussion will degrade to a nitpicking of individual cases rather than understanding that i am speaking from my experience as a whole.
Like the rest of the guys, I looked forward to haveing females deployed with us, so I didn't go into it with a negative attitude.
It was only after years of dealing with the integration that I became sour on it, and it wasn't just the females fault, many of the problems related to the men and how they reacted to the women.
All in all, i think the role of women in the military should be like it was in the WW's, Korea and Vietnam. They had a role and they did their jobs admirably and courageuosly.
Like I said, i will take any flak for this, i don't really care, but I don't want women in any combat division.
And, my feelings are for other reasons too, kinda like why we don't hunt does or why we throw back female crabs if we catch them, the future of our species depends on them, not us dumb guys, plus, society can handle "our boys" dying, i think having "our mothers" dying presents a harder issue to deal with.
So, to sum it up, my reasons are many and not just limited to experience. However, they are my reasons, for why i have my opinion. I am not trying to force my opinion on anyone or try and and sway anyone.
However, it seems like i am the only one who has had "real" (i.e. dangerous and potentially dangerous situations) experience in this matter, so I thought I would share how it was for me and the feelings it left me with.