Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 7/17/2012 8:40:00 AM

A conservative military watchdog is praising a female Marine Corps captain for boldly expressing her concerns about integrating women into frontline combat units.

As reported earlier on OneNewsNow, the Marine Corps has begun a program that will allow select female Marine officers to participate in a few months of training at the Marine Infantry Officer Course at Quantico, Virginia. But in the July 2012 Marine Corps Gazette, Capt. Katie Petronio published an op-ed piece titled "Get Over It! We Are Not All Created Equal," in which she describes the physical problems she encountered during her two combat deployments as an engineer officer.

In an interview on CNN, she asserted that putting females in the infantry will affect combat readiness.

"I left a seven-month deployment 17 pounds lighter. I had muscle atrophy. I stopped producing estrogen, which for me caused me to have infertility," she shared, "and I was only doing a portion of what my infantry brethren were doing. My concern is that there [are] a lot of gender-specific medical conditions that we haven't even begun to identify and that there's going to be a cost associated to that."

Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR), notes that tests done over the past 30 years prove what Capt. Petronio is saying.

"Every time there has been a comparative test, it has been shown that women -- as brave as they are, as willing [as they are] to work hard -- there is not a single study that shows that women are interchangeable with men in direct ground combat," Donnelly reports. "That's reality, and you don't make policy based on Amazon myths."

The CMR president agrees with Petronio that men and women are not created equal when it comes to the physical demands of combat.

This should not be a surprise to anyone who passed grade school "sex ed" classes.

What's the point of this thread Bob?

Some feminists don't agree with us!

Us?

Bob and me. At least.

Well I don't agree with the feminists either. My wife's nephew, an ex Army Ranger has been preaching against women in combat for years.

The difference has gotten bigger since the body armor.
Between that and the gear and the heat,
it's hard for any soldier to get around, even the guys.
Impossible for most women.

The nature of combat has to change. Military research is on it. Here's a really cool thing:

http://phys.org/news/2011-10-boston-dynamics-unwraps-military-robot.html

Carries 400 lbs up to 20 miles.
I saw a video of it climbing up rocks and
being kicked and recovering on ice.
It would go along, and then do resupply, and
eventually, evac. the wounded.

Asymmetric war really messes up the old order.
RPGs and IEDs...etc.

I know for sure, that the women in the Marines, go thru the same training as the men in boot camp.... But thats where it ends.. OK! I admit there may be a few that can withstand the mental, and physical stress of combat.. But their much better behind the lines.. Just my 2 cents..

O'Boy you did it now!!..Your in Trouble!!!....All women to arms..to arms...Attack..Attack....Target: Dennis in Nj...He wants to keep you all barefoot and pregnant...Attack..Attaaaaaaack!!!...

I thought all women that are in the U.S. military were lesbians.

Am I wrong about that?