Thread: U.S. Army General Brady on women in the front line

Originally Posted by Ausfree

I wish people would put gaps and spaces in their posts/paper quotes/ whatever, you know sentences and paragraphs. It would make it easier for an old bloke like me to read!! No reflection on you Bob.

That's ok , mate, I've barely come to terms with the concept of copy & paste. I started my school life with a slate , & made my own ink. Point taken, though, Bob[ ps, I've fixed it up a bit, just for the more mature amongst us]

Originally Posted by Ausfree

I wish people would put gaps and spaces in their posts/paper quotes/ whatever, you know sentences and paragraphs. It would make it easier for an old bloke like me to read!! No reflection on you Bob.

Hi Ausfree

The same could be said of people who quote an entire volume of said text.

Yes it is awkward sometimes but not as bad as those who write screeds without so much as a capital letter or a punctuation mark.

Bob

To one of your comments about being politically correct, it seems to me that comment is only used when people don't agree.

Stopping racism is being politically correct unless you happen to be the ethnic minority discriminated against.

Diana

Ha Ha. The beat goes on.

Fighting Females.

Didiman

The earliest printed reference that is unambiguous in it's use of 'politically correct' in its current commonly understood sense is Toni Cade's The Black Woman, 1970:

"A man cannot be politically correct and a chauvinist too."

Originally Posted by 123rover50

Ha Ha. The beat goes on.

Fighting Females.

Didiman

Did you actually read Gen Brady's missive? , Bob

Originally Posted by bob10

Did you actually read Gen Brady's missive? , Bob

I did. I agree.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

As I understand it, in the Australian Army has a physical fitness test for combat roles. The test is the same for women as it is for men, if the women don't pass the fitness test they are not placed into combat units, I believe this will soon also apply to the SAS.

There is and no, its not the same test the female version of all fitness tests is on average a ball park of 30% easier some aspects of some tests are better than 50% easier

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The fact that some women couldn't lift patients onto litters is no different to the fact that some men cant do it either. (I seem to remember Richard Hammond couldn't cock a .50 cal.) Neither should be placed into roles that require that sort of physical strength, they should be posted to roles that don't require physical strength or they should not be in the military.

There are barrier tests for everything male or female, if you're not capable of passing the barrier test and its quite simple, you dont pass and you don't get the job. Unless your female (or some other minority grouping) and can play the discrimination card.

I've been personally over ridden in the decision to fail a female off of a drivers course because she couldn't undo the wheel nuts on or manhandle the spare wheel on a unimog as part of the basic drivers requirement to change the tyre. Oddly 2 blokes were canned off of the same course for the same reason, the difference, apparently I was discriminating against her.

There were further repercussions to this later on where 2 reccy mechs nearly lost their employment over their attitude towards a driver on recovery task they were sent out on.