Army to review female close combat roles

[weltweit]

Army to review female close combat roles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27331365

Female soldiers give views on close combat question
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27335442

My view is the more the merrier, as long as I don't have to serve in a front line unit myself I don't really mind who else does! If someone passes the required tests they should be able to do it!

 

[likesfish]

Well the frontline has gone so the whole things a bit moot.
But israeli experience is male soldiers cant cope with women in danger.
Women can do some roles but driving a tank is one thing putting the fucking track back on one is insanely physical had the misfortune of one throwing a track by my trench que 2 hours of epic struggle

 

[Limerick Red]

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bah! Ill leave it

 

[Mr.Bishie]

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bah! Ill leave it

Aye, fuck the British Army

 

[Wilf]

Women, getting equality with men? Good God, the British Army has a long way to go before it catches up with the Church of England!

 

[Pickman's model]

Well the frontline has gone so the whole things a bit moot.
But israeli experience is male soldiers cant cope with women in danger.
Women can do some roles but driving a tank is one thing putting the fucking track back on one is insanely physical had the misfortune of one throwing a track by my trench que 2 hours of epic struggle

que? you from barcelona?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

 

[felixthecat]

Well the frontline has gone so the whole things a bit moot.
But israeli experience is male soldiers cant cope with women in danger.
Women can do some roles but driving a tank is one thing putting the fucking track back on one is insanely physical had the misfortune of one throwing a track by my trench que 2 hours of epic struggle

I know possibly the world's smallest (female) tank mechanic for whom that is a regular task. I was flippin' amazed to see her track bashing one day - I swear the sledgehammer weighed as much as she did.

Anyway, female medics have been patrolling with frontline infantry troops for long enough without any problems. If women want to join the infantry I don't see why they shouldn't be allowed to. Why they hell they would even want to in the first place is another matter.

 

[Buckaroo]

And Stalingrad. Teenage girls taking on and kicking the shit out of Panzer divisions. No gender wars in the street fighting academy.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

I was quite close to punching a work colleague in the face today whilst he was wanking off to the sexist & elitist crap on Vine's radio 2 show about this very issue.

 

[likesfish]

Track bashing in the base must be hard work.
In a german field where the tanks at an angle and you have no idea what the hell your doing its horrible.

Track bashing is the art of getting a caterpillar track back on a tank when it falls off for some reason.
On a main battle tank a track is made of steel.
If you know how hard getting a tyre back on a bicycle can be.
Now try that except the tyre is huge made of steel and the bike is 60 tons plus at an angle so you have to dig to get the track back on its a total nightmare.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Track bashing in the base must be hard work.
In a german field where the tanks at an angle and you have no idea what the hell your doing its horrible.

Track bashing is the art of getting a caterpillar track back on a tank when it falls off for some reason.
On a main battle tank a track is made of steel.
If you know how hard getting a tyre back on a bicycle can be.
Now try that except the tyre is huge made of steel and the bike is 60 tons plus at an angle so you have to dig to get the track back on its a total nightmare.

lol

 

[likesfish]

Not sure theres a vast number of women wanting to join the infantry, us marines have failed to get any women through their infantry officer course.

 

[Buckaroo]

Track bashing in the base must be hard work.
In a german field where the tanks at an angle and you have no idea what the hell your doing its horrible.

Track bashing is the art of getting a caterpillar track back on a tank when it falls off for some reason.
On a main battle tank a track is made of steel.
If you know how hard getting a tyre back on a bicycle can be.
Now try that except the tyre is huge made of steel and the bike is 60 tons plus at an angle so you have to dig to get the track back on its a total nightmare.

Fuck that. Compare the Russian tank manufacturing (women) rate with the German (men) rate when it mattered during Stalingrad.

 

[likesfish]

For extra lols the tank was nothing to do with my unit but we were there and offered to help
Two hours tank crew fucked off home we went back to our trench covered in mud and had to wait another 5 days to get a shower

 

[Buckaroo]

So what. Women can be just as effective as men in all that kind of thing. Is that it? Or fucking what?

 

[likesfish]

Fuck that. Compare the Russian tank manufacturing (women) rate with the German (men) rate when it mattered during Stalingrad.

Germans produced precison death machines that when they worked could kill lots of things
Russians produced "a grave for 5 brothers" russian nickname for the t34
but shed loads of them and they worked well enough.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

And Stalingrad. Teenage girls taking on and kicking the shit out of Panzer divisions. No gender wars in the street fighting academy.

Tanks are not much use in street fighting really

 

[Bakunin]

Russians produced "a grave for 5 brothers" russian nickname for the t34
but shed loads of them and they worked well enough.

They worked better than the Lockheed F104 Starfighters the new Luftwaffe bought from the Yanks. Their crash record was so bad that the Germans used to joke about it:

'How can I own my own Starfighter?'

'Buy an acre of land and wait.'

 

[joustmaster]

us marines have failed to get any women through their infantry officer course.

I'm pretty sure demi moore did it in the late 90s.

 

[Geri]

Not all men can do these jobs. Not all women can do these jobs. The criteria should be "are they suitable for this job?" not what gender they are.

 

[joustmaster]

Not all men can do these jobs. Not all women can do these jobs. The criteria should be "are they suitable for this job?" not what gender they are.

talking such sense isn't very good for arguing on the internet.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Not sure theres a vast number of women wanting to join the infantry, us marines have failed to get any women through their infantry officer course.

There ain't enough fucking face palms for that post tbh.

 

[Buckaroo]

Tanks are not much use in street fighting really

Exactly! Guernica! Tell that to Hitler!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I was quite close to punching a work colleague in the face today whilst he was wanking off to the sexist & elitist crap on Vine's radio 2 show about this very issue.

Where the fuck do you work?

In my office they get the hump if I bang one out over a nun getting it up the Gary!

 

[Buckaroo]

Tanks are not much use in street fighting really

They weren't for the Krauts!

 

[Buckaroo]

Germans produced precison death machines that when they worked could kill lots of things
Russians produced "a grave for 5 brothers" russian nickname for the t34
but shed loads of them and they worked well enough.

Sorry what's that? What precision death machines? T34?

 

[Mr.Bishie]

They weren't for the Krauts!

Krauts? c'mon ffs, you were doing so well

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

They weren't for the Krauts!

Krauts?

 

[Buckaroo]

Krauts? c'mon ffs, you were doing so well

Fuck off!