Tashah
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- May 25, 2005
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- Centrist
The US military is not suited for occupation. No modern military is. The cost in blood, treasure, and equipment in Iraq is staggering. Occupation is what any modern military does least best. If you wish to reprise this experience again and again down the road, be my guest. But the extant results will be fairly consistent.Tashah, if you are suggesting that modern combat operations do not require a substantial amount of physical and mental endurance then you are totally mistaken. My first five days in Ramadi I probably slept a total of 12-15 hours. It was nonstop patrolling, building, and standing post. I was having mild hallucinations by the last night.
What I am suggesting, and what has been proven true in other parts of the world, is that females can indeed contribute significantly on the modern battlefield. No, females generally can't hump thirty miles lugging a SAW. But if your military finds it necessary for any Infantry soldiers to do this, then your military is in some deep **** from the get-go. Such exacting excercises are best left to elite personel such as Special Forces.
Intelligence, speed, mobility, and combined-arms capability are the keys to successful ground operations. Getting bogged down kills. I suppose some muscle-bound tattooed grunt has to lug a friggin SAW around. But me? I'll take the female soldier who can obliterate anything two clicks away using a lightweight headset, laser designator, and laptop. You see Ethereal, one need not be the strongest and baddest dude on the block to be extremely proficcient and successful at killing the enemy. This ability can come in any size, or gender.