SOFREP’s 2012 Greatest Hits #3: The First Female Navy SEAL

Interesting thoughts. I have struggled with this question for a long time. I am a firefighter/ paramedic in a urban/intercity environment. Females have their place on my department Truth be told but if I go down in a fire and a females backing me up I can't say with full certainty that she would be able to pull me out. My wife is one of the strongest people I've ever known both mentally and physically but she even admits that she could not do the physical requirements of with my job. Great site! I would like to know how to Travis Lively became the mayor?

I don't think its so much a question about ability.Somewhere out there are women who can hack the grunt life style as well as men.The problem is logistical. Take a Marine infantry company of 150 to 200 guys and add in 15 women spread out over 3 rifle platoons,a weapons platoon and headquarters platoon. Put this outfit in the field,not in a garrison environment with tents, but in fighting holes with young women in close proximity to young males. 

This could led to tension in the platoon as the gals would hook up with some guys while leaving other guys on the outside looking in.

It doesn't have to be sexual relationships.Just the fact that some guys get to have a buddy relationship with a female while most others are left out would divide a platoon against itself.

Unlike most POG units that already have women,grunt units have often no ability for private quarters outside of garrison with grunts having to bath (when they can) sleep and crap right in front of each other.

A lot of thinking better be put into this before carrying it out.

Former Marine 0311 2nd Bn 5th Marines 1987-1990

There's so much more to the women-in-combat controversy than a simple matter of "nobody likes change".

"Whenever the question of women in the infantry comes up, well-meaning observers often comment that such assignments should be allowed (actually, ordered) if women can meet the same  physical standards as men.

"This fails to recognize comprehensive tests and reports, produced over the past 30 years, which have compared the physical capabilities of men and women in military training.  All of these empirical studies can be summarized in a single sentence:  'In direct ground combat, women do not have an equal opportunity to survive, or to help fellow soldiers survive.' "

Read more in:

http://www.cmrlink.org/content/home/35869/gender_diverse_army_ranger_school_part_ii

The real issue with women in combat is pretty simple, women are the key to propagating the species, the best, the brightest, the strongest that's what a species needs to survive so why does everyone want to work at insuring the demise of the species.. I'll be dead but survival in the long view goes with, thinking, morals, values and the priority of roles in a society. All societies fall when advanced thinking runs crazy into the claymore

From a quick Google search, it appears the Katie Wilder episode happened back in 1981 and that she's been out of the military for quite some time.

Just what is it with this utopian fantasy about female SEALs? And as far as I'm concerned, Mikey Weinstein is just another PC grinch...

http://www.stripes.com/news/live-nativity-scene-at-bahrain-base-scuttled-after-atheist-group-complains-1.200575

Here we go again... The Arctic Warrior cometh... you have been warned... ;-)

@SOFREP You might be interested in Brad Thor's novel, The Athena Project.

Israel said it wasn’t successful...... It was a disaster?

There is always going to be a sexual component to these things, especially in stressful environments.  I still have a hard time seeing disabled women vets, or LEO's killed or maimed, and raped etc..

Spec Ops women = tactical Sammich!