Woman In Combat Arms...

[Wagon]

Sea and Air dominance make all the difference. Shut down a supply line for a week, it's back to Guadalacanal days.

The supply chains today are pretty sensitive and accurate. If you can build a Toyota Landcruiser and have it delivered to the middle of the Kalahari Desert to an individual in 3 weeks, you can pretty much put anything anywhere on earth.

Disrupt those supply chains, all hell breaks loose, and not a little misery.

 

[shogun]

Given the changing face of combat, let women in. Combat now is not like it was in 'Nam. They are not slogging endlessly through a jungle. They do not just go back to some dirty broken down bunker on some LZ for re-supply.
Showers? Toilets? Rooms? never heard of them on any LZ I was on. Even clothing. Our clean clothing arrived crammed into a mail sack, and you searched hoping to find something that sorta' fit.
Yes, it is still hard, when the bullets start and the explosions go off its combat.
Many of the women I knew in service were totally up to it.

I am not trying to sound "tough" here but I think you have a twisted view of todays battlefield.

These amenities you think exist today everywhere "showers toilets etc etc) only get there years after the initial invasion. Even up to 2006 on my last deployment 3 whole years into the war in Iraq and my unit was still sleeping in taken over hotels, or bunkers in the dirt that we dug ourselves. The "wire" was literally 50 ft away and was nothing but some concertina wire.
Just sayin, its true that the nature of war is changing but a lot stays the same.
And also double the weight carried by 'Nam guys with todays body armor. Sure its not in a jungle but a 6 hour foot patrol in 120 deg heat with no shade carrying 80lbs of armor water and ammo,and a 240G will still take its toll. Long foot patrols anywhere are gonna suck. It's not all mounted nowadays.

I can think of maybe 1 girl I went to highschool with that I could actually see making it through all that. Granted only 7 guys from my highschool joined and deployed. Class of 500.

Sorry for the ramble.

 

[jamz]

I love a stinky woman.

 

[jamz]

I quote (and don't remember where I found it): "I have bigger balls than you. Only mine had to be moved to my chest to avoid chafing." :D

Breasticles?

 

[armyvetwolf]

hahahaha you guys are cracking me up...some men smell good stinky too....just saying:p!

 

[jamz]

hahahaha you guys are cracking me up...some men smell good stinky too....just saying:p!

Yes there is a good stink and there are bad stinks.

Why do women try to be all cute when they fart?
Just DOO IT!! AND DO IT GOOOOOOOOOD!!

 

[armyvetwolf]

Yes there is a good stink and there are bad stinks.

Why do women try to be all cute when they fart?
Just DOO IT!! AND DO IT GOOOOOOOOOD!!

Cute when i fart? I just bust out laughing in tears cuz the hubby goes bonkers when i do it! But he's just as bad as me, trying to "dutch oven" me in the bedroom....ooo that ticks me off:ROFLMAO:!

 

[shogun]

hahahaha you guys are cracking me up...some men smell good stinky too....just saying:p!

You enjoy the smell of smegma?

 

[armyvetwolf]

You enjoy the smell of smegma?

if you mean frumunda cheese...no thank you...hahahahah:ROFLMAO:

 

[SGT.Sunshine.]

I am not trying to sound "tough" here but I think you have a twisted view of todays battlefield.

These amenities you think exist today everywhere "showers toilets etc etc) only get there years after the initial invasion. Even up to 2006 on my last deployment 3 whole years into the war in Iraq and my unit was still sleeping in taken over hotels, or bunkers in the dirt that we dug ourselves. The "wire" was literally 50 ft away and was nothing but some concertina wire.
Just sayin, its true that the nature of war is changing but a lot stays the same.
And also double the weight carried by 'Nam guys with todays body armor. Sure its not in a jungle but a 6 hour foot patrol in 120 deg heat with no shade carrying 80lbs of armor water and ammo,and a 240G will still take its toll. Long foot patrols anywhere are gonna suck. It's not all mounted nowadays.

I can think of maybe 1 girl I went to highschool with that I could actually see making it through all that. Granted only 7 guys from my highschool joined and deployed. Class of 500.

Sorry for the ramble.

I too have to comment, my last deployment was in 08-09 and we moved into a town of 20k on the Iranian border, took over a rat infested sugar factory that was destroyed and spent 15 months there with NO showers or toiletts just burned our shit after filling an MRE box full, with flies landing on your ass, it was all foot patrols and night time ambushes, do to the morning mortar fire we would take dailey, I humped a close quarters S.A.W. M249 with tons of ammo full armor water etc. we would move out after dusk and return at first light. My uniforms rotted off of me within 2 months, our wire was 50 feet away yet hadji would still place efp's right at the entry points under the nose of the watch, and we would bathe using water rations that route clearance would drop once every 3 weeks. We were a force of 84 of us and unless you were bleeding out or KIA, medivac could be a week out. Oh and unlike "NAM!!" there was no gov funded hookers OR BEER rations thank you very much. Some times the engineers doing route clearance would spend a night in the wire and they would be made to stay a ways from us if they had females with them, due to us not seeing a female other than covered Arabs in a year.
The prior deployment in a giant palace base I will agree saw much better living arangements but it isnt allways so.

 

[JarHed]

Hey SGT

I guess I missed the hookers and beer when I was in Nam. I feel cheated. :rolleyes:

I was a grunt and my experiences were in many ways like yours. It sure wasn't the 'south park' version of the war.

Jar

 

[SGT.Sunshine.]

Hey SGT

I guess I missed the hookers and beer when I was in Nam. I feel cheated. :rolleyes:

I was a grunt and my experiences were in many ways like yours. It sure wasn't the 'south park' version of the war.

Jar

Thats what I hear about from my relatives who served in Nam, the Gov sponsored brothels beer rations etc.
All I know is I would have really like a beer a few times that last go around.