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Women In Military In No Rush To Join Infantry
Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-01-07 19:53
Article here. Excerpt:
'WASHINGTON -- If or when the Pentagon lets women become infantry troops – the country's front-line warfighters – how many women will want to?
The answer is probably not many.
Interviews with a dozen female soldiers and Marines showed little interest in the toughest fighting jobs. They believe they'd be unable to do them, even as the Defense Department inches toward changing its rules to allow women in direct ground combat jobs.
In fact, the Marines asked women last year to go through its tough infantry officer training to see how they would fare. Only two volunteered and both failed to complete the fall course. None has volunteered for the next course this month. The failure rate for men is roughly 25 percent.
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Changing the rules for a potential future draft would be a difficult proposition.
The Supreme Court has ruled that because the Selective Service Act is aimed at creating a list of men who could be drafted for combat – and women are not in combat jobs – American women aren't required to register upon turning 18 as all males are. If combat jobs open to women, Congress would have to decide what to do about that law.'
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The SC consistently hides under its desk
Repeatedly challenged, repeatedly upheld: the all-male draft. They never address the matter of whether the armed forces is violating men's rights to equal protection under the law by allowing the armed forces to single them out for combat roles in the first place.
But how about this: It's a violation of human rights to force by any degree of coercion any person to participate in a military or indeed other kind of labor, even if it's compensated in some way.
This is more commonly-known as slavery.
But my statement shouldn't be construed to say it's to be expected that one ought to be paid whether they work or not, assuming they're capable of doing some job. Just saying, no one should be forced by threat of incarceration or other sanction to do a particular kind of job, especially if that job requires the abrogation of your civil and even human rights.