This has been a debate for years ever since Congress mandated that women can join the military. Time and again, it's made alot of old timers question that wisdom. Why? For the simple fact that there are very FEW women in today's military, and all through history, that have shown that Congress had their heads in the right place. Alot will argue (mainly the women) that women in the military is a good thing. Well, I don't disagree with that, provided they are willing to knuckle up with their male counter parts, and do the same exact thing that we men are required to do. But that isn't what's happening, now is it..?
What is happening, are women, who might deploy ONCE in their military careers. Why do I only say once? Because most of them will never see another deployment again. Not because of injuries, but because they can't seem to keep their legs closed as soon as they hear that their respective units are about to deploy. Everyone sees it, but noone wants to say it. But it's painfully obvious. Company commanders, try this out. Especially those units that never deploy. Mention an impending deployment in say... three to four months time. Then watch and see how many of your female soldiers come up pregnant. I can promise you, it will be the vast majority of them. Whatever happened to living up to the Army values? I don't see any courage there, nor do I see any commitment, I don't see them facing fear or adversity, I don't see them having any honor. I can go through each and every Army value that the men are expected to live up to. But it seems to me, there is a double standard going on here. Oh, wait, maybe I shouldn't post this, we wouldn't want someone crying that I'm being unfair in my observations, or whineing that they will submit an EO complaint against me. Be my guest, I don't care.
This brings to mind a nice little story I have for you. While I was stationed in Germany some years back, while I was still on active duty. They were calling out for small groups to deploy to fill in for various missions. One of them was for a recovery team. I immediatly volunteered, as did a brand spanking new female soldier. What happened a few days after that just sickened med. She had talked one of our fellow male soldiers into getting her pregnant. I confronted her about this, asking her why she did that. Want to know what her reply was? She gave me a (haughty and very straight) faced expression, and flat out said, "I didn't want to deploy." I called her a coward right then and there. I proceeded to light right into her, and told her that if she is going to be that much of a coward, get the hell out of the Army. The last thing I want to serve next to, is someone who will use their sex to get out of a deployment. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I will say this, she did file an EO complaint against me, and I found myself standing in front of my First Sergeant. If anything, he was more surprised to see me standing there than I was finding myself there. He said that while he sympathized and was in full agreement with my statement to her, that I should be careful what statements I make. Granted, the EO complaint was dropped since nothing of what I said constituted such a drastic complaint. But he advised me to be more careful in the future.
This brings up something else. A lame assed arguement that a female soldier brought up during a debate once when some buddies and I were having a discussion about females getting pregnant both prior to and during a deployment. Her words were as follows, "Noone can take a woman's right to have a baby." Ok, great, I get that. But when you see all these unwed female soldiers getting pregnant two to three months out from their units deploying, or getting knocked up in a combat zone. That makes me wonder what they even bothered signing their names on the dotted line for. I'm not saying don't have a kid, I'm just trying to say. Think and plan it for something other than avoiding a duty to your fellow soldiers, your unit and your country. If you want to have a baby, at least plan it so that it won't weaken your unit's effectiveness. I'm not sure how much some of these women care or not. But what they fail to realise, is that pregnancy, while it will take them out of a combat zone. Does weaken your unit's effectiveness. Everyone else has to pick up the slack, work longer hours, end up severely fatigued, and risk injuries because some female and the idiot that got her pregnant couldn't control their hormones. Which reminds me...
I don't know if anyone reads Stars and Stripes. But if you did, then you more than likely heard about the officer who had brought up two soldiers on charges in Iraq. A male and a female soldier no less. It brought a great deal of heat on himself for his actions. But that is one man that I applauded for his decision to bring up charges against those two. The male for getting the female pregnant, and the female for getting pregnant. His reasons why are much the same as my thoughts on the matter. Which is this: If your in a combat zone, wether it be Iraq or Afganistan, then your there to do your job. Your there to be a soldier, not to get laid. This officer, needless to say, was forced to drop the article 15's that he had given them. I would have told the idiots that wanted me to drop it to go jump off a cliff. Take my rank, take my money, I don't care. I myself wouldn't have allowed some horny individuals who can't control themselves in a situation that could jeapordize the rest of my troops' lives, because they wanted to get it on.
Now, don't go flaming me yet for my view and rant on the matter. I'm far from against women in the military. They can be just as valuable as men. But they need to learn that if they're there, then it's because they wanted to serve. If military life isn't for them. Then don't enlist, simple as that. After all, you don't sign your name to a binding and legal contract, and not expect to go anywhere. This goes out to both men and women. Control yourselves for crying out loud!! If your that horny, then get into porn and stay out of my military. A combat zone is NOT the place for a one night stand or a permanent hook up. If you want to have a baby, great, I'm happy for you. But have it when your precence won't mean as much. Meaning, when your unit is back in garrison, not when your unit is going to need everyone at full strength. To all of you who are thinking about enlisting. Think twice before you sign. If your the type that can't keep it in your pants, or keep your legs closed. Don't bother wasteing your recruiters' time. More importantly, don't waste anybody else's time if you don't plan on doing your job seriously, and with professionalism. If it were up to me (some of you should really thank the powers that be that it's not) I would line every single one of them up for the fireing squad. That, or give them a one way ticket to FT Leavenworth. But, if we did that, we wouldn't have any soldiers left...
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