On September 21, 2017 the Washington Post triumphantly announced that the first woman had completed the Marine Infantry Officer Course:
In a historic first, the Marine Corps plans to assign a female officer to the infantry following her anticipated graduation from its grueling training program, service officials said Thursday.
Four days later came the NY Times Op Ed explaining that women Marines would be accepted as combat officers because their peers would know they are the real deal:
By integrating only women who have already met the infantry’s difficult training standards, the corps acknowledges that military readiness is paramount. At the end of the day, this newly minted infantry officer will prove herself by the way she carries herself around her fellow Marines. Peer leadership, too, will be important. Her classmates have seen her perform and can be powerful allies as she integrates into the operating forces.
Indeed, as the Op Ed concluded, this was the beginning of a brave new world:
I anticipate there will be little fanfare from the Marine Corps regarding the graduation. As The Times has noted, the Army’s graduation ceremony for its first female infantry soldiers made no mention that some of them were women — and that is as it should be. Monday’s graduation is important because it paves the way for women in combat arms not to be a big deal in the future. Like her male classmates, this officer has met an exceptionally high standard. Soon, she will be just one more Marine infantry lieutenant, picking up her first platoon.
But this brave new world where women were just as tough as the men and had to meet historic standards was not only short lived, it was a universe of one. Having proved that they could (by hook or crook) graduate one woman through the Infantry Officer Program without officially making the course much easier, the Marine Corps waited just over four months to stop pretending women could qualify without changing the rules. On Feb 7th, the Marine Corps Times announced Passing Combat Endurance Test is no longer required for infantry officers. According to the article this is such a minor change that it hardly merits noting. At the same time, it explains that the previous standard was so ridiculously high it had to be changed or women would be prevented from becoming infantry officers:
In a slight change to the grueling initial stage of the 13-week Infantry Officer Course, Marines will no longer be required to pass the Combat Endurance Test to move on.
The Corps has come under criticism for what some have claimed to be unnecessarily high standards to graduate from the course. To date, only one unnamed female Marine has successfully completed the entire course.
But Marine officials at Training Command contend the changes are not an effort to water down standards.
This is the official beginning of stage two for Marine infantry. Given that stage one lasted only four months, we should expect lightning progress moving forward.
The washout rate was only 25% for an officer’s course. 10-15% of that would be due to injury, I’d guess. Maybe even higher. Another 3-4% for other contingencies. The rest for sheer lack of preparation. Women had been 0 for 33 before this one came along. The pressure to get one through had to be mounting. Letting it run off to where women were 0 for 3000 isn’t a good look for a branch coming off their photo scandal in #Metoo America.
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Related :
More equality leads to FEWER women in STEM.
Similarly, I note that the online lynch mob out for James Damore is mostly manginas, rather than actual women.
“Her classmates have seen her perform and can be powerful allies as she integrates into the operating forces.”
It isn’t “integration” when you’re a living exception to every rule and tradition in the Corps. When the military must bend over backwards for you on everything from uniforms to latrine privacy, you better be Rambo freakin’ Goliath… and it’s a safe bet 2nd Lieutenant Bewbs is not.
I don’t want USA to die like this. We deserve some dignity.
Reading this doesn’t me angry as much as knowing that in spite of this, Americans will continue to push their sons to join the Marines, thinking the forced inclusion of unqualified recruits won’t harm them at all.
This video deserves more exposure. Someone has described 50 different female privileges in a tight 4:40 clip :
If I read correctly, officers candidates will stil have to take the CET but the results will only apply to men. Women candidates will know their CET score, but that’s it. So it’s a test but it’s only applied to one sex.
This is like taking the SAT or ACT and being admitted to college regardless of the test score. Another variation on the “equal but not really equal but we all accept the lie” game that we’ve been forced to play since the 1970’s. Because equality of result requires, even demands, inequality somewhere else.
Or perhaps I am misreading and no candidate is required to pass the CET, they are just required to take it. Yet standards are not lowered, because equality of results is possible.
This surely pleases high ranking military officers around the world, starting with the generals of the People’s Liberation Army…
Quick – let me take the opportunity to copy this “I told you so” (granted that all of us saw it coming) over from the previous thread:
I hope Dalrock will allow me to briefly admire myself on his blog for having accurately predicted this years ago. In keeping with the idea of “changing our views of what is normal”, the ethos of the Marines is being modified from a punch in the face to a pat on the head.
Remember, the standards will never be lowered; only modified and enhanced to more accurately reflect the realities of the ever changing face of war, or something like that. But never lowered. That word will not appear.
More girls. Bring us more girls.
OT: “When Will We Have the Guts to Link Fatherlessness to School Shootings?”
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/will-guts-link-fatherlessness-school-shootings/
“What is the primary way to attack a boy’s masculinity? Strip him of his primary male role model: his father. Over the past 50 years, we have taught women to embrace single motherhood and to cut fathers out of their children’s lives through divorce.”
Susan Goldberg typically shills for feminism, so I’m pleasantly surprised to see this.
Next, Terry Brennan, Co-Founder of Leading Women for Shared Parenting, criticizes Brad Wilcox in “Republicans Should Man Up On Fatherlessness”.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/17/republicans-should-man-up-on-fatherlessness/
“How would Holt and Wilcox have divorced fathers respond to Republican inaction and calls they re-enter a contract already costing them their children, life savings and freedom, because of their gender?
…
Indeed, the difference between Dr. Helen Smith and Holt and Wilcox is, she hears the horror stories of divorced fathers. Better still, how would Holt and Wilcox react themselves if forced to process the emotion of losing their children for all but ‘standard visitation’ because of their gender? From their actions, I’m suspect they’d channel their anger into a positive effort at reform.
Republicans would be better served if they changed their ways; rather than preach, listen. Listen to divorced fathers about bigotry in Republican courts. Only then can they rebuild a party which sides with the people rather than the establishment.”
It’s good to see someone in a mainstream conservative publication taking Wilcox and his ilk to task.
Correct AR.
The test has been improved from a pass/fail to a pass/only. But you will have the personal satisfaction of knowing you would have failed it as you continue with your training and assessments.
It’s good to see someone in a mainstream conservative publication taking Wilcox and his ilk to task.
Wilcucks is such a phony that this is long overdue.
I’ve been officially on the, “Fuck it” train for a couple months. Bring on the brave new world of pretend equality, uber-legalism, and Darwinian meritocracy. Dissolve the “arbitrary” sex boundaries in war, sport, and all other public venues now! Don’t wait for our children’s future enemies to get wise of our current foolishness.
Controlled burns prevent wildfires.
Oscar,
I am delighted that someone is attacking that faggot Mytheos Holt.
He thinks that Cuckservatives have successfully fought back ‘feminism’, and then says that the Androsphere goes too far and should be silenced, as the Androsphere might squander the gains that cuckservatives have made against feminism.
It requires a huge amount of mental malpractice to believe such a thing.
Mytheos Holt, of course, has the typical punchable cuckservative face.
If the boys don’t like take direction from misfits and washouts they can face the Military Tribunal.
Even the military needs a police state inside it to squash dissent.
Thus the men can only adopt the female oriented passive aggressive behaviors. (cuntery)
The Marine Corp:
Turning men into women by the day and night
So, who’s gonna bang the hot new leuy?
Let’s fight about it.
So much for team cohesion and espirit de corps
Total cuntery,this will cost men and boys lives somewhere sometime,all so some gash can run her mouth
In all due authority” over men.
No respect given,none expected
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/womanhood-is-natural-manhood-is-not
Hi Dalrock, I did not know how to contact you but I wanted you to be aware of this article posted by a conservative Christian (Catholic?) website. The article bows to the feminist imperative.
Fuck Yeah, ‘Emerica!
Now get those bitches to the front lines and get those pathetic men back. We don’t need no stinkin’ men!
Our enemies mock us,dont we have enough men in this country? The answer is no we dont we turned ( thanks to our fearless leaders) into a pussy nation!
I wonder who these people think they’re fooling. I’m certain nobody is actually being fooled, but PC demands that nobody mention the elephant in the room.
BTW, Dalrock, “lightening”?
[D: Thanks. Fixed.]
University of Oxford extends math exam times for the benefit of women:
>http://oxfordstudent.com/2018/01/23/oxford-university-extends-maths-exams-improve-womens-grades/
Confession: I initially misread this as just the women getting extra time. Little surprises me these days.
Any nation that tolerates this nonsense deserves to be “defended” by a military force full of queers, women and transgendered freaks.
With this freakshow to fall back on, Trump’s tough talk towards the rest of the world is just so much verbal flatulence that makes both him and the country look like idiots. Cina, Russia, and North Korea, to name just three, are laughing their asses off.
What is often overlooked when considering these little twerks of progress toward equality is that the impact is not limited to the future.
The results, of course, will play out going forward in time, but what fails to be measured in these one-sided debates is the retroactive dilution and demoralization effect that such a decline in standards reaps from those who have previously earned their station through the previously (high) standard.
The prog perverts achievemnt into mere credentialism; a purely feminine, consumer-based system of signaling status and in-group conformity. But true achievement and merit carry much more than the extrinsic feathering of caps.
These giant leaps (small steps) undermine far more than the future integrity of the fighting force. They devalue the skilled violence of masculinity. Something that is not pretty nor to be celebrated, but deeply necessary in human weapons of war – and worthy of a seriousness and level of respect that todays culture fails to provide.
Which calls into question whether such a culture is deserving of protection and service at all.
A democracy deserves to die in such a manner.
Democracy in its current form, is a terrible system and certain not sustainable, due to the nature of women. That is why Democracy has a life-cycle, after which it unavoidably devolves into a ‘feminist’ police state + goddess cult.
The cognitive dissonance between the feminist ideology and reality as witnessed by the outcomes of objective tests must be (predictably) resolved by changing the tests by those suppressors of truth. Such tests are implicit in any competition. Therefore ALL competition must be eliminated to uphold the feminist illusion. We all know that reality cannot be distorted infinitely, eventually this WILL catastrophically collapse into chaos.
Push all these females into Marine front line units and watch them fail badly during the next BIG war. Bag and tag them just like the men. Brutal equality. Then let’s see what the politicians have to say.
“By integrating only women who have met the tough standards…..”
….and then finding that there are no standards, you can smell the Orwellian doublespeak.
The Australian Army recruitment posters have a woman in uniform doing something Army-ish. In Germany, a recruitment poster for the Bundeswehr has a woman in uniform doing something Army-ish. I’m not sure about the States, but this tells me that a similar virus has infected Armed services there too.
It’s all okay, until an actual shooting war starts. Then the demographic problem of low fertility rate will suddenly reverse, as all of these tough women accidentally get pregnant just as mobilisation is needed. We’ve been down that road and we know where it leads.
Great point Spike. They are there for the goodies until danger raises its head and their own heads might get blown off. Then, as if by magic, they’re all home pregnant on deferral but still collecting the goodies while keeping the fallacy perpetuating that females make just as good Marines as males. How do we implement a policy that females in the military must be on birth control, nor allowed to escape to the rear with the gear, during times of war and military engagement so the reality that they are not as good can reveal itself?
A punchable cuckservative face : Mytheos Holt :
Not to be outdone, H. Bradford Wilcucks takes the cake (note the repeated pink shirts) :
John wrote https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/womanhood-is-natural-manhood-is-not
Thanks. Stanton continues to disgust me with such tripe. This was my response (if anyone cares) it may be removed from the site:
What an embarrassment Stanton is.
If Stanton wasn’t so busy bowing to the women in his life, he’d see that girls and women are inclined to be horrible gossips, they are petty and vindictive, they are manipulative (Judges 16), they are cruel and shun others in their group.
He’d also see that women are hypergamous (2 Sam 11) and will betray their vows to one who loves them(Prov 6), they are calculating willing to commit murder of children to gain power (2 Kings 11/2 Chron 22) , envious and willing to commit murder (1 King 3), willing to murder their own children (2 King 6), willing to murder to keep power (1 King 18), lead men astray (Prov 6, Eccl 7), and notoriously UNFAITHFUL (Eccl 7).
No Stanton plays his ridiculous game, defining womanhood as virtuous. He distinguishes maleness from manhood, ignoring the fact that we distinguish between women and ladies, between womanhood and femininity, between modest and wanton.
There is plenty to the nature of women that is crass and base, it seems that Stanton has forgotten the absoluteness of Romans 3:23. This article is a farce, and Stanton’s ministry is a sham since he puts out such dishonest nonsense. Let him read and heed 2 Peter 2.
@ Anon
I’d never heard of Holt until I read Ms. Brennan’s article. Where do they find these dudes?
The outcome of this ‘experiment’ reminds me of something my Drill Sergeant said to us during Basic Training in July 1977. There was a group of us recruits at the live fire and maneuver range. This is a range where a team of two soldiers move towards an objective while firing and targets along the way to the objective. Well, while awaiting our turn to go through the course, some of us began to goof off (after all, we were 17-18 year old at the time). A Drill Sergeant spotted us as we were acting like a bunch of knuckle-heads. When the Drill Sergeant headed our way, we knew we were finished. We knew we’d be doing push-ups or cannon-cockers until he was tired. So, we braced ourselves and came to parade rest. What happened next left an impression on us (me for at least) for the rest of our lives. Instead of yelling at us, and telling us how stupid we were, he leveled a gaze at us, from underneath the brim of his campaign (Smokey the Bear) hat and said, “You know, this shit is all fun and games……’til the killin’ starts.” With that, he just turned and walked away. Not another word was uttered. The immediate environment changed in an instant.
So when I see, or hear about social engineering going on within the military now, I have a flash-back to that day in basic training and remember those words my Drill Sergeant said to us…
“This is all fun and games…’til the killin’ starts.”
Thank you Drill Sergeant Santiago, where ever you are.
Oscar,
I’d never heard of Holt until I read Ms. Brennan’s article. Where do they find these dudes?
Holt has hated the Androsphere for a long time. He truly believes that ‘Social Conservatives’ have already won against feminism, and that the Androsphere represents extremists for a cause that no longer needs to be fought. He thus wants to forcibly silence the Androsphere because ‘they will damage the goodwill we have built with feminists’.
Yes, he is that deluded.
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I’ve been officially on the, “Fuck it” train for a couple months.
I know that train.
Let this feminist mamacracy go down in flames. It will soon enough with the inmates running the asylum.
Lost Patrol
The test has been improved from a pass/fail to a pass/only.
So it’s now attendance award. Like a fun-run 5k. “Been to CET, got this nice T-shirt”.
“Been to CET, got this nice T-shirt”.
You do have to take the test though. Everybody has to take it. So…equality proven yet again.
Her classmates have seen her perform and can be powerful allies as she integrates into the operating forces.
Notice that word “allies”. I would have preferred the term “comrades.” Allies is the term you use if you are associated with someone merely for your own convenience. I’ve noticed feminists using this term to refer to, say, black people.
@DEN
That’s an awesome story. This sums up how the military should be, and why we feel proud in having served.
I also want to comment on the pictures of those two guys up there. For one, these are the people sticking their noses in stuff they don’t understand just for virtue signal points. And they look like the kind of people, but especially they look the kind of men pushing automation for one reason only: they wouldn’t handle a real job. I guess that’s why they go into journalism.
What is even worse is that a lot of these military women have house husbands
ugh
what kind of men are they?
the world is so weird now
men are women, women are men
Australia just announced that the have between 75000-100000 house husbands….
if men do not want to be men I guess the military will have to recruit women and reduce standards
Oscar @ February 19, 2018 at 4:16 pm:
“I’d never heard of Holt until I read Ms. Brennan’s article. Where do they find these dudes?”
I found my contestant on Huffington Post.
The backstory helps answer your question:
http://gunnerq.com/2018/02/15/the-face-of-trump-derangement-syndrome/
^^ see
men want this
men want to become cucks….
Many women pass the CET, some just need two tries just like the men. The decision to eliminate it’s pass/fail nature completely undermines the extremely valuable training because now it’s just a jog with Marine things involved. The value lied in the Student being forced to push him or herself past his or her limits and still demonstrating the mental capacity and technical proficiency leading Marines in combat requires. The standard has lowered, and it had nothing to do with getting more women through. It was because Marine Officers (especially reservists) were essentially getting drafted into the Infantry and showed they didn’t want to be there or didn’t belong there during the CET. It looks like the days of IOC being impervious to quotas in favor of putting enlisted Marines in the hands of ONLY the most capable and tested officers are over.
“Cane Caldo says: I’ve been officially on the, “Fuck it” train for a couple months. Bring on the brave new world of pretend equality, uber-legalism, and Darwinian meritocracy. Dissolve the “arbitrary” sex boundaries in war, sport, and all other public venues now! ”
Cane has gone “black pill”, welcome to the dark side.
one of the Gospel coalition Pastors is boasting how the women in Wakanda who lead the military is a prefect example of biblical womanhood…..
tbh I would have no sympathy for these women when they get raped and tortured by the enemy
If women can pass an infantry course. The standards are too low.
it does explain why Americans struggle to defeat skinny goat farmers in a desert
how long has it been…. 25 years?!!
standards are too low
@ Anon
“[Holt] truly believes that ‘Social Conservatives’ have already won against feminism… ”
Right. That explains why babies aren’t being murdered in the womb by the millions/year anymore. I must’ve missed that somehow.
@ Gunner Q
“I found my contestant on Huffington Post.”
Come on, man! That’s pretty much cheating!
Bdash77, do you have a link for the biblical womanhood story?
“As a result, the Combat Endurance Test (CET) reverted back to its original intent, prior to 2012, as an assessment tool to measure the retention of knowledge, skills and fitness achieved at the Basic Officer Course (BOC).” Training Command said in a statement.
“The CET has changed several times; it wasn’t until recently [2012] that Marines could washout from failing the course.”
Reading comprehension???
That’s okay. We’ll just have robots do the fighting.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/19/u-s-army-hey-robots-guns/
DrTorch,
“This was my response (if anyone cares) it may be removed from the site:”
Great comment. Good job!
@Oscar
Three letters: E.M.P
tbh I would have no sympathy for these women when they get raped and tortured by the enemy
Either it has already happened with horrifying frequency where women have been deployed in combat zones, but has been covered up (very likely), or even our sex-starved Muslim enemies can’t stomach the though of sex with an American “female.”
”He thinks that Cuckservatives have successfully fought back ‘feminism’, and then says that the Androsphere goes too far and should be silenced, as the Androsphere might squander the gains that cuckservatives have made against feminism.”
We know that leftists have effeminate men and masculine women:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158978/
. Cuckservatives with their figureheadship are the same.
They are on the side of the enemy in all but name.
Says that mom was apart from her toddler for nine months. This is treated as heart-warming.
Military mom says that her son “kept smiling, like he was in awe of me.”
Her statement:
1. Is extremely narcissistic. Rather than focus on her son, she focuses on her own awesomeness, as validated by her son’s perceived reaction.
2. Reveals latent guilt. I suspect that, deep down, she realizes she’s doing something selfish and harmful to her son. So she tries to convince herself that her son loves that she is in the military.
Wow, Rebecca Gayheart hit the wall hard. I remember her from the Urban Legend horror film series of the 1990s. She was beautiful then, in her 20s. Now 46, and without makeup, she looks … like this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5410703/Rebecca-Gayheart-seen-filing-divorce.html
@Den1, I hear you. Myself, I grew up five years when our company commander explained that the identification tags are issued in pairs because when we are killed one tag needs to be retrieved from our body and sent to Mortuary Affairs along with intelligence about where the body is while the other tag remains with our remains for identification purposes. Like your drill instructor pointed out, it’s all fun and games until the killing starts.
But like I said, the women are just in it for the goodies. When the shooting starts they’re going to deliberately get pregnant and wait out the war in the rear with the gear spending their free time getting rank and authority over the men who are doing the actual fighting and dying. It’s why I’m 100 percent in favor of mandatory birth control for all female military personnel during time of war as well as pushing them into front line units per capita. No codependency, only brutal equality.
@ dal
I was discussing it with him
The churches I have attended over the last few years love TGC and have had many of them come over here ( New Zealand- we may be small but Hillsong, C3 etc all launched here….)
Wakanda
” Some of the key theological themes include the emptiness of ancestral worship, the devastating effects of sin, the temptation of the oppressed to become the oppressor, the beautiful complementarianism portrayed in the film, and the resurrection of the king to overthrow the evil strongman”
“. I was speaking about the way T’Challa led with courage and compassion, and the way the women thrived under his leadership in a way that was not demeaning, but empowering. This subject is obviously deep and has many nuances and considerations, ”
That is what he said.
It just made me sad – it confirmed to me that at least Piper etc were against women trying to be men
the younger generation of Pastors who supposedly believe in Christ believe that real leaders allow women to run the military and thrive….
So no link sorry, but am sure one of the TGC pastors will eventually come out publicly and state his support for it… (ILL out him when he publicly states it!0
Most of my pastors in traditional churches believe this anyway, they train the younger men to be domestic and women to achieve their dreams- starts in youth group
I started questioning my church when I – started reading this blog- you have opened my eyes! but also when my pastor said that during marriage counselling he tells all men that asking your wife to ‘get toy a beer ” or “get stuff done for himself” is sinful and selfish
@ Red Pill Latecomer
did you notice how the husband stayed at home to care for the babies for nine months!
the younger men want to be weak, they have been taught “happy wife, happy life” , never question her, do whatever she wants.
I have lived in the west for 10 years now in every house I have never seen a woman make coffee for her husband, not even once
always the other way around
bdash 77 says:
February 19, 2018 at 9:18 pm
it does explain why Americans struggle to defeat skinny goat farmers in a desert
how long has it been…. 25 years?!!
No.
We’re not there to defeat anyone.
We’re there to take over and protect the poppy plantations and secondary conversion to heroin.
Billions of dollars that can be spent in Africa,buying warlords to secure gas and oil contracts.
Didn’t Smedly Butler tell you war was a business?
A retiree friend of mine (with one daughter, and one grandchild) has listened to me talk about the leading indicators of our decline. He was on active duty for about 22 years and receives a pension, a disability check and is also DOD employee. He agrees with the main points I make when discussing impending demise.
But his response is “I just want the checks to keep coming until the day after I die.”
I have tried to get him to explain what that he thinks that will mean for his offspring and little grandchild, and he just shrugs.
On the blackpill front, noting Cane’s disillusionment, our national love for “democracy” and desire to virtue signal our desire to be cuckholded has far surpassed our love for God. Like Israel of Jeroboam we’ve willing followed the idolaters into their harlotry. They like Baalim knew the fastest way to destroy a nation was to bring it under the judgement of God. Well, here we are. I’m not even sure how to repent but we’re going to pay and pay and pay, all of us.
bdash 77,
“I have lived in the west for 10 years now in every house I have never seen a woman make coffee for her husband, not even once always the other way around”
Two weeks ago at church the pastor told that awful joke where the wife instructs the husband that he has to make the coffee because “He brews” is a book in the Bible.
Special thanks to Empath for helping me to understand how damaging these one-sided “jokes” are.
@ Bee
I have seen wives publicly telling husbands off though for not making coffee or not cooking enough- encouraging them to be house husbands
Christian women….
always happens at bible study
@freebird
unfortunately the new world order does not see it that way
Asians believe was is about land and power and colonization- complete takeover/surrender of local population and spread of attacker culture is definitely on their minds….
2020-2030 will be an interesting decade- already Elementary and high school students outside the USA believe that USA is no more the most powerful nation….
if War was really about business the USA would have taken over Afghanistan by now and established a colony- the returns on investment would have been way larger than the military-industrial complex
but they cant because starving goat farmers and goat f***ers have been out maneuvering the so called powerful Americans for 25 years….
Patriarchal/masculine societies have always outmaneuvered feminist societies/matriarchies
bdash 77: I have lived in the west for 10 years now in every house I have never seen a woman make coffee for her husband, not even once. always the other way around
I remember the 1992 presidential election, when Hillary Clinton, asked about her law career, famously sneered, “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies.”
Back in 1992, it was still acceptable to challenge a woman about having both a career and a child. Hillary’s “You Go Grrrrl!” attitude helped put another nail in that coffin.
@ vfmshadow0342
“Three letters: E.M.P”
Well, then it’s a good thing we have all these Wonder Women to protect us from the forces of evil!
I was 22 in 1992. I remember her saying that, and I also remember her saying “she was not a stand by your man woman” but still stands by Bill…but she “made it on her own”
Speaking of coffee……these are NOT sexist coffee ads. All the man wants is a good cup of coffee. Folgers coffee ads / segements early to mid sixties. Notice one thing…..all the women are THIN and SLENDER
Freebird-We’re not there to defeat anyone.
We’re there to take over and protect the poppy plantations and secondary conversion to heroin.
Billions of dollars that can be spent in Africa,buying warlords to secure gas and oil contracts.
Didn’t Smedly Butler tell you war was a business?
I know someone who’s neighbour flew non-combat in Afghanistan for 8 years, He said every square inch is mapped out geographically. There are many rare and valuable minerals there. The big corporations want to eventually set up shop there and give a percentage to the government. With the way the “war” is going it may break the Hundred years war record.
@ Scott
Reminds me of Hezekiah. He was a great man, but had a couple serious flaws, and that was one of them.
2 Kings 20:16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord: 17 ‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated until this day, shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord. 18 ‘And they shall take away some of your sons who will descend from you, whom you will beget; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
19 So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good!” For he said, “Will there not be peace and truth at least in my days?”
@ Jason
Those commercials are freaking awesome!
“I’ll get coffee at the plant.”
“The desk sergeant at work makes better coffee!”
@DrTorch
I read your article on that link and was impressed by it before noticing your comment here.
It had a true, clear point with solid biblical support. The Eccl 7 reference wasn’t clear to me though. 2 Kings 6 is always stomach churning.
It was only “peace keeping” in Sariavo but we soon learned to carry more than the official combat load in our rucks. Resupply was sketchy at best and a few days rats and extra ammo belt sure made one feel better.
I can’t imagine the guys in Iraq with the modern comms and stuff to carry.
I’d hate to be in some future war’s ambush
“Hey LT, need a clip!”
“I’m out, I could only carry one.”
“Hey LT, call for arty!”
“No go! Dropped the radio a mile back.”
Great post. Thank you.
This related article is fascinating to read. Several notable personalities of the feminist charge in the U.S. military, including Army Colonel Ellen Haring, as well as backlash criticism within the Marines by Marine 2nd Lt. Emma Stokien.
https://cmrlink.org/issues/full/have-the-marines-lowered-combat-endurance-test-standardshave-the-marines-lowered-combat-endurance-te
Technically, it seems both Hillsong and C3 (who I had never heard of) were “launched” in Australia by Kiwis. It seems that Australians are easily led by Kiwis. That reminds me of a humorous putdown that I first heard when I lived in NZ:
“Why don’t you move to Australia and raise the average IQ of both countries?”
To understand who really has the attention of the US military brass and US Congress on such combat integration initiatives, it’s helpful to know names and faces. Here it is and here they are.
The main champion of lowering military standards is wiisglobal.org and Dr. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat.
http://wiisglobal.org/about-wiis/wiis-staff/
http://wiisglobal.org/gender-101-training-tools/
http://wiisglobal.org/combat-integration-handbook/
Check out the subject matter at this 2013 Symposium: http://wiisglobal.org/programs/men-peace-and-security-symposium/
This is the kind of sewage infecting the world’s most powerful military apparatus and being given more than equal time.
There is no end in sight.
Too bad those coffee ads are no longer made. I can imagine the lines, especially if it was the Tourettes Guy.
“Honey, how is the coffee?”
“Tastes like shit! I’d rather drink breast milk out of Amy Schumer’s cancerous tits!”
If we want to see coffee commercials where men tell their wives–not hint, not ignore, not imply–the coffee is bad, then we have to be and produce those men.
I have met very few of them.
In a real war what will happen when tons of female soldiers melt towards the rear? Will they be punished as deserters?
Most likely a cry will go up as to women are being sent more often to die than men and something must be done about it.
@Minesweeper & GIL
I don’t think Black Pill accurately describes my stance. The term is used to mean different things by different people. The only constant among them is nihilism, which I hate. The whole Pill analogy fails me because pills don’t symbolism war. The words I’m looking for are like fire, iron, and blood.
we should expect lightning progress moving forward.
This will accelerate both the feminization in pure numbers, and softening of training regimens. Not exactly ancient Sparta.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/19/pentagon-buildup-troop-recruiting-shortage-351365
“The bleak demographic trends among the military-age population could make filling the ranks with qualified recruits exceedingly difficult for years to come. The government estimates that 24 million out of the 34 million people in the 17-through-24 age group are not qualified to serve.”
So… When do we start requiring women to sign up for the draft?
@ constrainedlocus
“The practice really is not kind to women. Comprehensive Marine research in 2015 found that women are two- to six-times as likely to be injured in training, especially when marching under loads and performing heavy tasks that average men accomplish easily. [7] ‘Revalidating’ infantry standards sets up women for debilitating injuries and failure, not career success.”
And that’s in training. Combat is far less kind. People (mostly men) actually try to shoot you, bomb you, set mines, booby traps and all kinds of devious devices to maim and/or kill you, etc.
So, a man is always, absolutely wrong for hitting a woman, no matter what she does, but sending women off to be shot, blown up, or killed in all kinds of inventive ways by men is “empowering”. Makes perfect sense.
@ Disillusioned
“In a real war what will happen when tons of female soldiers melt towards the rear? Will they be punished as deserters?”
That won’t happen. They’ll get pregnant just before they deploy, which makes them medically non-deployable. That already happens, and no, there’s no legal punishment for that.
That won’t happen. They’ll get pregnant just before they deploy, which makes them medically non-deployable. That already happens, and no, there’s no legal punishment for that.
Yup. And speaking from direct experience as a retired Senior NCO, don’t even think of even obliquely suggesting any sort of negative sanction against a female service member for malingering (and that is exactly what these actions constitute, a UCMJ punishable offense that will end a man’s military career and might even result in imprisonment). The repercussions against you will be severe. The political machine that is top-level military “leadership” shits its collective pants at the thought of confronting women, let alone disciplining them.
I thank God every day that I got out when I did. I cannot imagine any conscientious man being able to stand it today.
Data suggests women in military service are having fewer children.
interesting study here: 60 out of 1,000 women in military service had pregnancy incident:
https://health.mil/News/Gallery/Infographics/2017/12/21/Pregnancies-and-live-births-among-female-service-members
Women in the Marine Corps are either decidedly less promiscuous/sexually active, have less opportunities for sexual congress, or are more committed to actually taking their birth control compared to servicewomen in the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Notice the typical age of these military new mothers – 30 to 34 years old.
Dalrock: I’m not sure if you’ve seen this clip. It’s out of Red Pill Israel (THE Feminist Hell!) and deals with exactly what happens to women in the military:
@ constrainedlocus
I read that chart as showing where the women of child bearing potential were located by service, not the ones that actually had a kid. That would make the numbers track fairly well with the percentage of women by service overall, since for now at least the Marines has a low percentage of females in total. Only the middle pie chart pertains to actual births to those women, if I’m reading it right.
I thank God every day that I got out when I did.
You and me both, brother. I wouldn’t last a week if I were still in today.
I have tried to get him to explain what that he thinks that will mean for his offspring and little grandchild, and he just shrugs
OK, I may be unforgivably dense tonight, but what does it mean for his offspring and little grandchild? Is he supposed to give his military pension/disability/govt salary back?
constrainedlocus says:
February 20, 2018 at 5:16 pm
Data suggests women in military service are having fewer children.
interesting study here: 60 out of 1,000 women in military service had pregnancy incident:
https://health.mil/News/Gallery/Infographics/2017/12/21/Pregnancies-and-live-births-among-female-service-members
These figures have been tracked through a period of peace /low intensity conflict. It would be interesting to see what would happen to those figures in the event of a real shooting war.
@ feeriker
“And speaking from direct experience as a retired Senior NCO, don’t even think of even obliquely suggesting any sort of negative sanction against a female service member for malingering (and that is exactly what these actions constitute, a UCMJ punishable offense that will end a man’s military career and might even result in imprisonment). The repercussions against you will be severe.”
Speaking as a field grade officer currently on reserve status, I confirm feeriker’s comment.
Lower all the standards so females can qualify for the goodies and then 85 percent of those who haven’t already positioned themselves in leadership positions in the rear with the gear magically become pregnant when the war starts while the men do the fighting and dying as usual. A handful that don’t will be used as “proof” the rest didn’t even though they most certainly will.
It will end with the women running the military from the rear, enjoying all the perks and goodies, while ordering men to do the killing and dying if enough men side with them to allow it to get to that point.
My old roomate said the same thing when I was living in San Francisco. He was a Desert Storm / Desert Shield army vet. He said in the summer of 1990 when deployment was announced, just about every woman in his batalion suddenly (gasp) got pregnant!!! Most if not all were not married!
Before Desert Shield, he said daily he had to hear from women and CO’s about about “women can do anything a man can in this army”
Deployment came…..and suddenly….well, they could do anything except die for their country….that’s a mans job evidently
Here is Tommy Robinson speaking about the British Military adverts contrasted by Russia and China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcoDJB2kP7w
@ Jason
That was painful.
Ok so lets say women make up 15% of troops: combat, logistics, medical, c3.
Bang!
Shooting war starts and magically 80%+ of women are pregnant or other waiver.
Combat strength is now down 10% plus. That is an entire company out of a full regiment!
And because its a shooting war you have to deploy now not in 12 weeks, if you can recruit/draft replacements and get them thru basic, battle school. Even longer for the specialties like armour or arty never mind the zoomies.
So you go into battle with every regiment down a full company. A division would be down an entire brigade!
How does this fall out for the troops that are left?
Or another way. A carrier battle group has to put to sea down an Aegis and an attack sub in her screen.
@jason
I have no official stats to point to, but when I was active duty in the early 20-teens, casual estimates thrown around were that something like 10% of all deployed females got pregnant while on deployment and had to be sent home early. At that point, it’s intentional. It’s also easy to time out a pregnancy to dodge a deployment, since taskings are usually on a predictable schedule and you get a four-month deployment eligibility freeze after you give birth.
In related news, some liberal women I’m unfortunately acquainted with thought that the female pregnancy battle uniform was a great thing, because it clearly meant that we have pregnant women downrange and “you can still fight the war!” They got more than a little upset when I explained that we bring them home if they get pregnant. Absolutely bizarre.
The data somebody posted with 30-34 being the largest group of pregnant women in the service makes sense to me. At that point, an enlisted female is probably in the middle of her second contract. A female officer is likewise eligible to get out after she hits her service commitment in her late twenties. She’d be on her third to fourth duty assignment, and if in a mil-mil marriage, at the point where hard decisions have to be made about careers. I knew a number of women who spent five to six years at different bases from their husbands, and who had just enough connections or experience to finagle themselves a joint assignment, again, usually early thirties. It’s also about then that you see career burn-out with women, regardless of career, and this is a much harder lesson in the military than civilian jobs. Early thirties is your last good opportunity to jump ship with your fertility even slightly intact. It’s about when you could have kids, as it’s the point where you start working on an exit plan.
I know a number of military women who misjudged this window, and ended up single and childless.
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seventiesjason says: My old roomate said the same thing when I was living in San Francisco. He was a Desert Storm / Desert Shield army vet. He said in the summer of 1990 when deployment was announced, just about every woman in his batalion suddenly (gasp) got pregnant!!!
The 1990s TV sitcom, WIngs, had a female character, Alex (note the male name), who had been a combat helicopter pilot during the Gulf War.
In this scene, the two guys try to impress Alex at the gym. Alex casually mentions her Army career.
Alex might have been the first major sitcom character who was a female combat veteran.
Cane, I’m not a nihlist but I do grieve the destruction bordering on despair. God is good and I’m well provided for but so was Lot the night that Abram spoke with the angel..I don’t know that I warrant a walk out.
As far as “black pill” you are absolutely right. I’ll amend my language.
BDASH77,
“tbh I would have no sympathy for these women when they get raped and tortured by the enemy”
Oh, they’re used to that after having been through college. Apparently it’s not so bad, thus 70% of college students are female despite the near guarantee that they will be raped.
Given that stage one lasted only four months, we should expect lightning progress moving forward.
@ Dalrock
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2018/02/21/infantry-officer-course-lowers-requirement-for-hikes/
The official position is that this has nothing to do with making sure more women get in the pipeline, it’s that too many weak men are failing the course. You should believe this because, of the three photos we’ve selected to use with the article only two feature a kick ass woman.