Women Soldiers

[Lonevolk]

Post your pictures and videos about women in the military in this thread and also let us know what you think about the topic.....do you agree with having women soldiers or not.....and why?

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Personally, I'm for women being allowed to serve in the military, but I'm against them serving in the more physically demanding and "in your face" type units, like Infantry, Artillery, Special Forces and similar.

But I don't see why they couldn't perform rear services, or combat duties such as snipers (proven in WWII), pilots, intelligence and so on.

The main reason why I don't agree with them serving in infantry and similar units is that generally women are physically weaker. And I don't mean comparing them to 2 metre tall musclebound giants, but their physiology in general. It's well known that females have a weaker and more fragile skeleton for example.

Another reason is that unit cohesion is usually affected.

A female member of a mostly male team / unit will cause more problems than contribute to the unit. Males (especially young males) would naturally want to compete for her attention causing friction in the unit.

She would also affect their judgement in combat situations. For example, if she were to be wounded and left exposed, most males would be naturally prone to try everything to protect her and expose themselves without thinking trying to get to her.....


Here's a program about female soldiers in the Serbian Army (it's in serbian)

B92 istražuje: Žene u vojsci
au.youtube.com/watch?v=B284-SxdM_k

[Яромip]

I have generally same beliefs about this topic. In some areas of fine-motor skills women might even outperform men (say sniper or pilot)

[pastir]

A big no-no for me. Isn`t the whole point of war to "protect the women and children". I imagine it would shitass my morale. The only thing worse would be recupperating at an all-male sanitary unit. ;D

Oct 27, 2008 0:30:49 GMT -5 Lonevolk said:

The main reason why I don't agree with them serving in infantry and similar units is that generally women are physically weaker. And I don't mean comparing them to 2 metre tall musclebound giants, but their physiology in general. It's well known that females have a weaker and more fragile skeleton for example.

Nevermind the muscle. There is pyschology. Ain`t never seen a bird in a bar brawl. I think it works for snipers becuase the most important qualities there are patience and caution. But that should be reserved for emergencies and special circumstances.


BTW: Women in US army, fun read:
www.fredoneverything.net/WomenInCombat.shtml
www.fredoneverything.net/MilWomenII.shtml
www.fredoneverything.net/MoreWomenLetters.shtml
www.fredoneverything.net/Claudia.shtml

[pastir]

Oct 27, 2008 15:16:55 GMT -5 Яромip said:

I have generally same beliefs about this topic. In some areas of fine-motor skills women might even outperform men (say sniper or pilot)

I belive muscle mass is important for a military pilot, to let him better handle the G forces. And aggression for other things.

Interestingly the most succesful female pilots did low altitude night bombing with light airplanes. Again something where good nerves were the most important thing. And where being cocky got you instantly killed without any effect on the enemy.

[Lonevolk]

The trend seems to be favouring larger numbers of female soldiers.


Despite some misgivings, I think as long as they fulfill the entrance conditions for each unit they're to serve in, it should be OK.

Israel has large numbers of female soldiers (girls get conscripted same as boys) so looking at their experience might give us a better idea of how practical it is.

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The 1st all female Russian paratrooper platoon takes oath of allegiance

en.rian.ru/photolents/20080908/116612002.html


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A picture of Radmila (I forgot her surname) who serves in the 63 Para Battalion of the Serbian Army.....she also competes in sports parachuting.

[Sveta]

Its the 21st century. They could take Synthetic hormones to develop the strength and muscle mass that men have.

[Itchie]

Personally, I'm for women being allowed to serve in the military, but I'm against them serving in the more physically demanding and "in your face" type units, like Infantry, Artillery, Special Forces and similar.

I concur with the opinion expressed above.

[Srbopol]

I think ofcourse women should be permitted into the armed forces but in certain jobs only, i cant say i like the idea if women on the front of heavy fighting for one reason and thats becuase it is not good to see women get killed, if anything on the front was do be the cause of phycological issues with tropps then its would be seeing chicks getting blown aaway, not nice for anyone