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On September 3, Marines and Sailors with 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) held a memorial service to honor Sgt. Nicole Gee at Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Base, Kuwait. Sgt. Gee, a member of Combat Logistics Battalion 24, was one of 13 service members who were killed in action during non-combatant evacuation operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan on August 26, 2021.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Nicholas Guevara)
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"Thousands of ethnic women, from nearly all religions and cultures all over Burma, have come together and taken part in the arduous Free Burma Rangers relief team training in Karen State. Year after year this happens. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ They learn to cross rivers by rope, land navigate, suture wounds, measure dosage, counsel the traumatized, disarm land mines, and much more. Once finished, they are deployed back to their ethnic areas where they serve those in their communities as well as those who have been displaced to the jungles in hiding. Impressive? Wait til you see the scenes in the film. On that note…:) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We’re trying to finish a film that tells these stories. We quite literally can’t do it without you, the patron, the friend, the volunteer, the partner. We need to raise the finishing funds to bring these stories to life. We’re in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign and have raised 37k+ of our initial goal of 50k. Help us by sharing the website (link in bio) where you can click a few buttons and add to the momentum. If you’re one of the 215+ patrons who have helped us so far, we can’t thank you enough! It’s so encouraging to see so many people join us to help tell this important story. www.fbrmovie.com" -Free Burma Rangers
Women from the first all-female honor flight in the United Sates watch a Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Sept. 22, 2015, in Arlington, Va. There were 75 female veterans from World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War in attendance, as well as 75 escorts, who were also female veterans or active-duty military.
(U.S. Army photo by Rachel Larue/released)
"...This was as stacked as a unit could get with the best Marines to give it a 100 percent success rate as we possibly could. End result? The best women in the GCEITF as a group in regard to infantry operations were equal or below in most all cases to the lowest 5 percent of men as a group in this test study.
They are slower on all accounts in almost every technical and tactical aspect and physically weaker in every aspect across the range of military operations. SECNAV has stated that he has made his mind up even before the release of these results and that the USMC test unit will not change his mind on anything.
Listen up folks. Your senior leadership of this country does not want to see America overwhelmingly succeed on the battlefield, it wants to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to pursue whatever they want regardless of the outcome on national security. The infantry is not Ranger School. That is just a school like any other school and is not a feeder specifically to the infantry.
Anyone can go to that school that meets the prereqs, just like airborne school. Kudos to the two women who graduated. They are badasses in their own right. In regards to the infantry... There is no trophy for second place. You perform or die.
Make no mistake. In this realm, you want your fastest, most fit, most physical and most lethal person you can possibly put on the battlefield to overwhelm the enemy's ability to counter what you are throwing at them and in every test case, that person has turned out to be a man.
There is nothing gender biased about this, it is what it is. You will never see a female Quarterback in the NFL, there will never be a female center on any NHL team and you will never see a female batting in the number 4 spot for the New York Yankees. It is what it is. As a country we preach equality.
But to place these mandates on the military before this country has even considered making females register, just like males, for the selective service is in all aspects out of touch with reality. Equality and equal opportunity start before you raise your right hand and swear and oath to this country.
Yes, we are an all volunteer force at the moment. Should this country however need to mobilize rapidly again to face the threats of the world like our grandfathers did, it will once again look to the military age males of this country to fill the ranks because last I checked, we did not require women to register for the selective service.
Until that happens, we should not even be wasting our time even thinking about opening up the infantry to women..."
Now he's under fire for posting this on Facebook and has since removed it. I'm sure the PC leaders will do everything they can to burn him.
Coalition instructors train the female candidates of the ANP on basic weapons handling and marksmanship. They are required to meet weapons qualifications standards at the end of their training regimen.
Kurdish Peshmerga female fighters take part in combat skills training before deploying to fight the Islamic State at their military camp in Sulaimaniya, northern Iraq September 18, 2014.
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