“Blatantly and overtly bias toward women…”
The “crowning” achievement of Leon Panetta’s tenure as Secretary of Defense was his lifting of the ban on women serving in Combat Arms MOSs (Military Occupational Specialties), reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) agrees, telling MSNBC’s Rachel Maddor that Panetta’s move was a “historic step for equality.”
Yet, for all the bluster and the huzzahs from liberals, gender inequality remains a bedrock principle within the Obama-run armed forces.
Examples Abound…
Male soldiers are allowed 10 days of non-chargeable paternity leave upon the birth of their child. In contrast. female troops are granted 45 days of non-chargeable paternity leave.
Why the disparity? The Department of Defense explains that women need more time to “prepare family care plans and to establish a pattern of child care.”
In a similar vein, once a female member of the military has given birth, she receivesa minimum four-month deferment before being assigned to a deployable unit.
The army revised its policy in mid-2008 to provide female soldiers a 6-month deferment, up from four months. The air force, navy, and Marines made similar provisions — but only for women. No such provisions are in place for men.
The DoD’s Office of Diversity Management and Equal Opportunity (ODMEO) has established the Federal Women’s Program (FWP). Per the DoD order, the FWP addresses employment concerns of all women regardless of race, religion, national origin, or disability.
The Soviet Union Also Had Political Officers…
Each DoD military department and defense agency is required to appoint a Federal Women’s Program Manager to fulfill the following responsibilities:
- Serve as the principal advisor to those responsible for personnel management actions impacting women.
- Assist the EEO Officer with affirmative actions planning to help eliminate any discriminatory underrepresentation of women that might exist in all occupations groups and at all levels of employment.
- Identify issues, examine policies, assess climate and develop proposals, recommendations, strategies and/or positions directed toward resolving specific issues.
There is no such federal program for men.
The Department of Defense also offers the following awards that are specifically based on gender and/or ethnicity:
- Annual Women’s History Month Observance and Awards Ceremony.
- Women in Aviation International Conference.
- Women of Color in Technology Awards.
- Latina Style Symposium.
- Federally Employed Women (FEW), Inc.
There are no such awards for men.
Individual branches of the military have professional organizations membership in which is available to women only . Examples include t
- he navy’s Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and t
- he Air Force’s Women in Combat.
No corresponding organizations exist that are men-only.
Pulling Up The Slack…
The same order cites:
It is noted that women comprise 14.5% of the total force, and 10% of the deployed force.
Yet the same order ignores that the remaining 4.5% of the extra work required to complete missions must be done only at the doubled efforts of male service members.
Grooming Regulations…
The Marine Corps has always been notorious for having the most stringent grooming regs of all of the armed forces. The absolute longest the hair on a male Marine’s head can be is inches in length. Yet female Marines are allowed to wear their hair as long as they like,
- provided it is pinned-up while they are in uniform.
In a world of supposed gender equality, males still aren’t denied the same fashion choices as their comradettes-in-arms.
This isn’t about equality. It’s about a confluence of political correctness, ideological fanaticism by feminists and the intentional emasculation and destruction of the American military.
A little bit of smoke may not signify a fire. When steadily surrounded by a lot of smoke…arson is involved.
The evidence is overwhelming that the America’s military is being purposely degraded.
The barbarity of the concept of sending a 120/130 pound mother of children or potential mother of children into combat is something that escapes a society that has become unmoored from reality.
The effect of women in the military has not been a zero sum game. Some women in some specialties have performed admirably and well. But their presence has always been expensive, and a luxury of a force that is rarely pressed into extended military campaigning.
Women have benefited from a skewed playing field at all levels, uniform standards, physical strength standards, endurance standards, behavior standards… all have been adjusted and “normed” to accommodate the presence of women in or near combat units.
There has been little or no positive effect in the long run. The additional burden of the social and behavioral doctrines have stressed and weakened the services greatly.
The old rule for women serving was: get pregnant…. your gone… c’est fin… the discharge was unconditional and usually under honorable circumstances. Many women just became the equivalent grade in the civil service, but they were no longer uniformed service members.
Of course for men, the rules were stiff as well. Adultery and bastardy were punished. Enlisted soldiers below the rank of E-5 required special permission from their Company Commanders to marry. No one under the rank of E-3 was allowed to marry, unless already married.
But what is coming is not a combat military. We are going to be what my father (West Point, 2 year combat veteran- Vietnam) called the “Parade Army”. Spiffy uniforms, lots of fruit salad and pretty badges…
The Democrat dream of a social welfare program military emasculated, and threat free has been in the works since World War I ended. There was an inconvenient half century detour, but now it’s full speed ahead.
My advice to all heterosexual males (and females who know their limitations and don’t want to jeopardize combat effectiveness) concurrently serving. GET OUT! Get out as fast as you possibly can. Do not re-enlist. If you are an officer, do your four, or five, or six, file your papers and get out. Save your selves, your sanity, and ultimately this nation, because until enough real men stand up and refuse to be used, this dangerous insanity will continue.
r/John – The Mighty Fahvaag
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