Showing posts with label women in combat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women in combat. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Why Military Working Dogs are better than the Cultural Support Teams


Both Military working dogs (MWD) and Cultural Support Teams are Enablers for Special Forces teams. A MWD team consists of a handler who is an 18 Series (Special Forces Qualified soldier) and a fully trained MWD.

1. Better trained.

2. MWD's can and will be the first one through the door.

3.Will go anywhere.



4. They are lighter, for when you have to carry them.

5. The enemy is terrified of them.


6. You can sleep with them.


7. They don't get mad when you put a muzzle on them.

8. Look Cool.

9. You don't get in trouble when they give you kisses.

10. They make great wingmen.

11. They are always watching your back.








Saturday, December 19, 2015

Full gender neutral standards for college sports by 2018



College Sports Must Be Fully Integrated by 2018
Washington D.C. - Following a unanimous recommendation by the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the full and complete implementation of Title IX. It will end all gender-based sports and each conference will continue to move forward with a plan to eliminate all unnecessary gender-based barriers to college athletics.
The change is intended to ensure that the best-qualified and most-capable person, regardless of sex, are allowed to play the sport of their choice for their chosen college.

“If members of that college can meet the qualifications for a job, then they should have the right to serve, regardless of creed, color, gender or sexual orientation,” Secretary Duncan said.
In a statement released following the announcement, President Barack Obama praised the decision.
Duncan, laying out his plan, stated, “Any school that takes any form of money from the government will need to cancel all gender-specific sports and have fully integrated teams by 2018." During the press conference, Secretary Duncan was backed up by representatives from each state's education department.
As part of the plan, each school needs to conduct studies on their sports' specific requirements. If those requirements preclude a certain gender then they will have to submit a report to the Department of Education (DOE) to justify why they are necessary.

College football

Former Adm. William McRaven, architect of the May 2011 military raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, has been assigned as the first director of the U.S. Sports Oversight Committee (USSOCOM) and is spearheading an effort to get more women and minorities to play sports.

"Women make up 56 percent of the total public-university attendance, and yet they make up zero percent of the football teams. I think we need to grow that number,” the former four-star Admiral told an audience of alumni.

McRaven told me during a recent interview,  that he was unsure what the expanded number would grow to. But he did note the current ratio of men to women playing football  is putting the teams at a disadvantage.
“Inherently, I know I need more females on the field," he said. "Females have already risen through the coaching and support-related elements of college football. But they have not been able to break into the operational side of actually playing."

The DOE must first draw up “gender-neutral” training and operations standards for all sport teams, and officials said they were due to be turned in by September, 2015. Those training and operations standards will put physical-fitness requirements for male and female candidates on equal footing.

McRaven said, "Women athletes have already played a keyrole on the field, standing alongside male athletes in some of the most difficult games of the year. The all-female units, known as cheerleaders, played a key role in many conference championships. We saw the great work that they did while working alongside college and even professional football teams." He went on to say he was working within the state bureaus to establish a new path for female members of universities based closely on the female field-hockey teams.
Some of the new rules to be implemented:
  • Hire coaching “advisers” from the women’s studies program to oversee recruitment, try-outs, training, and management decisions.
  • If no women make it to the team as starters, the government will conduct an audit of every decision made throughout the process.
  • During the season, the teams are required to live in open bunk rooms to build team cohesion and unity. (Schools are required to provide separate bathing and locker-room facilities for the female team members)
  • Male members of the team are required to complete 40 hours of sexual-harassment and rape-prevention training each season.
Secretary Duncan explained the outline to full implementation: “First, we are going to change how college sports run their conferences." He went on to explain that all colleges receiving public money will have to abide by these rules, but private universities will be exempt. “To make it fair, teams in each conference will only play like schools during the season. Public schools will play public schools, private will play private. They will only meet when it comes to the conference championship. Then the best teams from each side will come together to decide the conference title.”

Senator Barbara Boxer praised the move, saying, “This is a great moment for feminism and gender equality.” As she was leaving, not realizing her mic was on, she leaned over and could be heard saying, “Maybe the public conferences could just use flags instead of hitting each other. That seems more fair.”
Next story: BREAKING NEWS—Texas Declares Independence.
(Featured Image Courtesy: MyGarnerFamily.blogspot.com)



Saturday, December 12, 2015

Equality and fairness in the Military: More Combat deaths for women and minorities



Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy

Colonel Mike Copenhayer while not technically an “operator” he has spent a lot of time in SOF units screwing up awards, losing promotion packets and generally making it as difficult as possible for the guy on the tip of the spear to do his job.

As the personnel officer who has been the J1 at the Joint Special Operations Command, G1 at the US Army Special Operations Command, he has made life exceedingly difficult for a huge percentage of all Special Operations Force soldiers.
Not satisfied with only a “huge percentage” Colonel Copenhayer recently wrote “The Integration of Minorities into Special Operations: How Cultural Diversity Enhances Operations” while attending United States Army War College.

After Military.com and USA Today picked up the story it created a firestorm that erupted throughout the halls of power. The Armed Services committee commissioned a report from the Congressional Research Service which highlighted with cold hard numbers the institutional inequality and lack of diversity within the armed forces.

Vowing to fix this inequality a bi-partisan agreement was reached and a new law was passed, late last night. General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has ordered all women and minorities regardless of branch to immediately report to Afghanistan. These new replacements, will immediately replace all front line combat troops who are privileged, white males.

The reports shocking discovery showed that although 63.7% of America is white 85% of deaths in Afghanistan, and 82.6% in Iraq were white males.

Even worse while according to the U.S. Census bureau 49% of Americans are female but females only made up 2.1% of casualties for Afghanistan, and a slightly higher, 2.5% for Iraq.

Senator Dianne Feinstein immediately stated “This casualty inequality, cannot stand.”
General Dempsey told Hit the Woodline in a phone interview today, “We know from all of our classified studies, that we don’t release, that women do not have the ability to carry the average infantry load.”

“This actually really works well for us though. Starting now, we will not issue women any body armor, so they can more easily maneuver on the enemy and patrol in the mountains.” He continued “without the extra weight of the body armor we are sure to quickly close this unfair gender casualty gap.”

General Dempsey highlighted and explained a new unit. “Due to this massive inequality chasm, specifically the gender casualty gap, we will make special, highly mobile units who can be sent to wherever the fighting happens to be the most vicious and brutal.” These shock troops will be made up of black and Hispanic women only.”
“This is really good, every minority woman who gets killed actually counts for two spaces on this spreadsheet that gets sent to me twice a day.”

The spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff said “we have to get 3,170 women killed, in order to make it fair. Hopefully we can accomplish this in a few months.