Kayla Williams on Fox News for Women in Combat
Yeah, I kinda figured Fox would turn to some bubble head to discuss the “women in combat” issue that made the late night news cycle yesterday, and I was right. Somehow they figured that Kayla Williams from VoteVets was a good interview. Of course they started off the discussion with Williams educating us on how tough women are in combat, all of their medals and accolades.
Looking at her rat-like face, I couldn’t help but remember her book which I reviewed last year.
I couldn’t help but think about the time that she actually wrote about the terror of sand in her vagina. I couldn’t help but remember the cat-fight relationship she had with her female sergeant – the female sergeant who cried because Williams didn’t like her. I couldn’t help but remember her complaints about the men who constantly hit on her. I couldn’t help but remember how she complained about how tough her life as an interpreter was so tough.
But here she was on Fox News telling us that women can do the same job in combat arms duty assignments as men. That the new “Combat Readiness Test” will prove her correct. Yeah, except the “Combat Readiness Test” will be graded at different standards for men and women, so it won’t prove anything except how easily the Army can make liberals think that women equal men in combat.
They might as well interview Nancy Pelosi on the subject – I’m sure Pelosi could hit all of the baseless talking points that Williams repeated.
Thankfully, I didn’t have to listen Williams tell Gretchen Carlson what great tits Williams has like she repeated on every page in her book.
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I was hoping you’d post a pic and we could see if they were really that great.
I’m ambivilant about women in combat, but I do think this a majority rules idea. Like it or don’t, men are the one’s who carry the burden. I think we should consider their views on the things they are the experts in.
AND why are journalists so lazy? They just grab the first woman who’s name comes up in a google search.
In the thousand or so pictures I took in Iraq, I don’t believe I have a single one where anyone is holding a loaded weapon the way Kayla Williams is on the cover of her book. For someone who loves her rifle so much, she apparently never learned how to handle the damn thing. #muzzleawareness
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Following her undergraduate degree, Kayla Williams worked for Infinite Outsource in Tampa, Florida, a fund raising collective funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In October 1999, “a personality conflict with a new female superior” got her fired from this job.
Funny how this shit keeps popping up…
Women can’t hump a ruck.
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I was active duty AF during the buildup of the Vietnam War. I was assigned to the 1502nd FLMS, transient maintenance at Hickam. As you can imagine we handled one hell of a bunch of heavies travelling in each direction. As a crew chief it was part of my duty to debrief the crew and call in the problems they had. If the crew had already left I did the best I could with the aircraft forms.
One night I went up into an Old Shakey, AKA , Aluminum Overcast or C124. You climbed up a ladder with your back to the cargo bay and when I turned around this thing was loaded down with aluminum caskets from the front to the back and almost all the way to the ceiling. Can you imagine the hell that would have been raised had those caskets been filled with female soldiers?
Macnamara made his first stop and gave his first tv interview at Hickam after his monthly(?)visit to ‘Nam always talking about “only” losing 1 or 2 men” last week”
and I would sit there and listen to that crap remembering that
124 loaded with caskets.
Being in transient maintenance definitely had it’s ups and downs.Not having to serve in country, but seeing, basically, the war’s results. In my 3yrs there I saw alot of soldiers, and Marines going west and I wondered how many would I see headed east. Or as they called it” back to the world.”
Is this the same SPC/SGT Kayla Williams that displayed how tough she was “in combat” by spending her last few months at Tal Afar on crutches? I know she came into Iraq just behind the rest of us, but after brigade kicked my battalion out of our hangars at Tal Afar (of course they waited for us to shovel all the goat shit out first) most of the support elements were left there. Everytime I noticed Williams (granted, near the end of our rotation) her rifle was slung, and my squad prided ourselves on pissing off females as opposed to impressing them so I didn’t get to know her.
As for her tits, I can’t say; DCUs are not normally flattering (though BDUs on the TOG MP I almost hooked up with after PLDC with certainly were! Damn bus driver got lost and we got tired, though…) and the only reason I remember her at all is because my team interrupted her reading time in a crowded DFAC one evening. I remembered her name and as she was not unattractive (and we hadn’t seen an American girl for some months prior) tended to notice her presence on a few other occasions.
Today is Fat Tuesday. I’m forsaking New Orleans for a nice quiet day at home, though, and choosing High Life over Handgrenades.
@Bohica: Some can. But they typically look more like Uncle Jimbo than Kayla Williams.
OK, weighing in here with full knowledge that there are ieds ahead…
If women want to be in these jobs, they should qualify under the same standards as men. Period. The end.
There are many military jobs that require a generally physically fit person – I can see “gender norming” for those jobs. But if you want to do a job that requires the ability to run, at speed, a long distance, carrying heavy gear, than by damn you should be able to do those things. Otherwise you are a hinderance to the job and are going to get good men killed.
I know some very squared away female Marines and Soldiers who either left the military or changed their jobs when they realized that their presence endangered their men for various reasons (generally because the men did stupid things trying to “protect” them – even when they did not need the protection). I am talking about West Point, airborne qualified, chemical engineers. These women took their responsability as leaders seriously enough to know that they were an issue and they needed to move on.
There are women who can perform in these jobs. That is not the issue. The question is are there enough to justify the damage to unit cohesion and operations that their presence causes?
I feel like we’re being blackmailed.
How much do you suppose we’d have to pay Kayla Williams to go away???
Meh–color me unimpressed. Now there were some butt-ass ugly women when I was on tender duty, but there were also some smokin hotties too, far more attractive than Ms. Williams, and as an added bonus they had personalities too.
I borrowed a copy of her book back when I worked at XM. Anyone who has to spend a few pages reassuring me how tough she is generally does not impress me.
Using the new Dumbed down PT test to justify sticking women, in places they don’t belong. Who’d a thunk it.
The army is truly so much smarter and superior to the Marine Corps.
They have found a way to make a pound weigh less when carried by women than by men, and found a way to make it possible for women to hack real field duty and combat in particular. Neither of which they could do all that well before. Our WM’s just can’t do all that stuff.
I guess if your leadership really isn’t, and they care more about being politically correct at the cost of their people’s lives, then this is to be expected.
Bravo, U.S. Army.
Minimum Marine fitness requirements from MCO P6100-12
Male standards:
Pull-Ups(isn’t that a type of diaper? just sayin..jk,lol) 3
Crunches – 50
3-mile run – 28 minutes
Female standards age 17-26:
Flexed Arm Hang (seriously?!) 15 seconds
Crunches – 50
3-mile run – 31 minutes
So I guess the USMC figured out how to level their playing field as well eh Steve? Lol.
OK, that was kinda funny.
Someday I want to see the people complaining about the different gender fitness test standards complaining about the different age fitness test standards too.
Supposedly the new APFT (not the CRT) has the same standards for both men and women…at least that’s what LTG Hertling said before he became the USAREUR commander.