The Damn Few Episode 16: Starship Sealy (AKA Women in the Infantry)
The latest from the crew at Ranger Up, a fairly long video. As always, because its Ranger Up and on TAH, there’s a LANGUAGE WARNING!
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Good video although at 20+ minutes, they need more aggressive editing. Not being critical; just trying to provide constructive feedback. I think that a good 5-6 minutes of dead space could be edited out without even changing one bit of the content.
“You are really good at your job and add a lot to the combined arms team!”
@1,,we need that dead space in order to collect ourselves from laughing so hard! another fine episode gent’s!
“He took eight shots in his ass.”
“Sounds more like a seaman than a Marine.”
Instant Classic.
Supply Mole!
It’s not as funny when the entire thing is 100% true
Ga-a-a-a-a-a-a-dammit! I want my damn starship back. I only LOANED it to Sealy.
I’m gonna smack his flapping ass for getting bug juice on the floor! Everyone KNOWS if you want to kill Bugs, you use a degreaser like Fantastik, NOT bullets or ray guns. Then you wipe up the mess with paper towels.
PH2–bug juice kills EVERYTHING. And it makes metal shitters SHINE.
NHSparky – 🙂
Gah. I must wait until the kids go to bed for this. Been waiting all week.
So much truth therein.
Each example was spot on.
Classic and spot on
Spot on indeed.
I’m far from being pro-women-in-combat; but honestly, having worked with women who’ve been smoke jumpers, backcountry firefighters, members of the Bureau’s Fly squad, served in the IDF, etc., not to mention a number of elite athletes — inter alia, heptathletes, o-lifters, and Highland Games participants — I’m not sure Ranger Up’s experience with women extends beyond cheerleaders, Housewives, and strippers.
Doesn’t mean they should serve or that the U.S. Military wouldn’t screw it up; but trust me, there are plenty of women who would utterly dust the (at the very least) marginal members of the infantry — and not just the Audie Murphy types.
@15. That’s nice. None of those jobs you mention require prolonged deployments away from home. How many female “elite athletes” are willing to serve as enlisted infantrymen? What numbers are you using to back up the assertion that there are “plenty” of women who would physically be able to “dust” these infantrymen? You’re certainly not going off of PT scores.
There probably are women who can hang in the infantry. Once you sort out the ones who sign up for the military, volunteer for the job, meet the physical standards, and complete the training, you will have managed to build one kickass company-minus-sized element of female grunts.
@15
If those elite women athletes are so elite…then why does the Olympics still separate competition by sexes
I would think it would be demeaning to be known as the Women’s World Champion…rather than simply World Champion
World records for females in track and field are the equivalent to good high school performances for males (the women’s high jump world record, for example, is less than the record for my high school). Even an elite female athlete performance is only equivalent to a good male performance and that’s leaving aside the higher incidence of stress fractures in females for repeated strenuous exercise.
@18 and the higher incidence of ACL ruptures..that’s a sports medicine fact…the stresses of sports where running or constant motion is required along with change of direction (soccer, field hockey, basketball) tend to blow out the female ACL far more often than the male ACL largely due to the smaller amount of female muscle mass in the torso.
These are non-contact ruptures as well, meaning that the normal motion of turning or landing after a small jump over torques that component of the knee geometry and ruptures the ACL.
Having coached women’s soccer at various times over my coaching career the injury rate seems to be about 3 times as often as male athletes (several studies support this number) although some studies peg it at 10 times…I’ve not seen or read the higher incidence data so I am not certain of its validity.
Additionally over half of those women who rupture their ACL will develop osteoarthritis in the injured knee within a decade of the injury, that rises to about 70% in two decades post injury…so based on average age of military personnel these are troops who will be physically diminished permanently by their 50th birthday. It happens often enough with males currently.
These concerns should make those making these decisions at least consider the ramifications of three times as many knee injuries during training as they currently experience, and a future liability that half of those injuries will develop conditions creating a VA responsibility within a decade and more than half within two decades.
I understand the concerns over equal opportunity, but there is a larger concern regarding cost factor and risk of injury…