Comments on: Unconventional Soldiers

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:45:41 +0000

“Of course, not even Amazon women should be considered for this kind of Special Operations team”

This comment made me remember an incident a few years back. Some lady wanted to be accepted at the training academy of one of these elite units. If I’m not mistaken I believe she actually won a court case to get admitted. Anyway, she did get into the academy and it was big news, even here in SA. Then, probably not even two weeks later the whole thing was in the news again, and I still remember the news images of her hardly being able to walk out of the academy to the car picking her up to go home – that was the end of her training. It was probably this or similar incidents that made feminist change their tune from equal treatment to “equal but different” treatment.

Hats off to the SEALS.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:43:44 +0000

Our Somali buddies just hijacked 4 more ships and 60 people. The ships need a few good snipers with 50 cals each. A few surveillance blimps can patrol the coast and probably end the pestilence within a year or so. In theory, this can be handled by private shipping insurance companies, freight owners, and some good snipers. I like a nice teachnical challenge – just keep the UN, the do-gooders, and the neocons out of it. Maybe Jesse Ventura would like to get back in action.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:53:04 +0000

As Gunjam stated in a previous comment in a previous post. All of the US Forces are good people. For me,that includes the male female rank and file. 50 years ago, (My God, I’m that old) any of the ships I was on, the Captain would have called the Chief Gunner’s Mate to the bridge,the Merchant Captain would have sailed to port with his crew, while the Officer of the Deck made an incident entry in his log; however, this is the age of the specialist, SEAL, SWAT,Special Forces and a presidential order. I wish the S.E.A.L.s well and it is good that you give them some publicity. Ps. True, Demi Moore and the screenplay character were not the right typecast for a real GI Jane, but we in the the US consider the ideal woman to be a Barbi, not a Russian Sniper, who made a real difference at Stalingrad or the little girls with the AK 47, in Viet Nam.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:45:22 +0000

So far as I know, it still hasn’t been confirmed whether the shooters were actually SEALs or Marine Corps sharpshooters.

As far as females being precluded from the SEAL teams and other Special Operations communities, it will be interesting to see what changes the Pharaoh makes to current military policy. This is not to say that Bush’s military was any better. Technically women aren’t allowed near the front line, but as Iraq (conveniently) has no front line, the liberal military establishment has found an end-run around its own policy and females are very much to be found playing combat roles in that theater. So we are in fact sending young girls off to Mesopotamia to be blown to bits, or far worse if they are captured.