How shoe-horning women into the U.S. military weakened it.
Reversing Peak Wokeness
An example of how woke the U.S. military became during the Biden years was this recruiting video, about a young woman raised by two lesbians who joined the U.S. Army to operate Patriot anti-missile batteries.
President-Elect Trump's designated Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has vowed to reverse this wokeness.
‘Not for long’: Pete Hegseth sounds off on gender-neutral wokeness in the US military - https://t.co/Z7ZDKaU53p
— Montgomery Granger (@mjgranger1) November 18, 2024
As the X thread below by Global War On Terror veteran Paulos shows, Hegseth will have his work cut out for him. Before we get to that thread, two quick investing notes.
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Now onto that eye-opening thread about women in the U.S. military.
Stories From America's Co-ed Military
2. Female commanders commonly become overwhelmed by routine stressful situations. I have had buddies who had to yell at their female bosses to give orders because they went catatonic at breaking down a TOC in a rainstorm.
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
4. Females crying when bullets start flying and having to be literally kicked repeatedly to get out from behind cover and advance.
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
6. If a female gets pregnant, she can avoid deployment. During GWOT there were thousands of women who avoided combat deployment in this way, while their units went on to multi-year extended tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was absolutely endemic.
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
8. On deployment women are (surprise) a constant source of indiscipline. They are always getting mixed up with men and alcohol (even if disallowed). Prostitution rings are not uncommon, often being pimped by a minority NCO.
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
10. One unit that I was in had the entire chain of command relived because they had ALL slept with one E4 who had been a stripper before she enlisted. Entire chain from BN CDR on down just one-shotted before they even got to combat.
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
12. This is a fun little one. Female soldiers are notorious for sneaking out the protective plates in their armored vests so they weigh less.
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
14. The presence of females in the military has to be supported by endless rounds of training. A lot of time is wasted for this. Many of the trainings bring in civilian diversity consultants which is about what you’d expect. Grad students lecturing to an auditorium of soldiers…
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
There’s also a larger point to be made. This feminist boosterism rose to the level of strategic significance. We were in Afghanistan for explicitly feminist goals (educate the little girls) and American female soldiers were essentially supposed to be the template that the new…
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
Bonus Round stories from friends:
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
16. "The FET (Female Engagement Team) attached to my platoon once wandered off during a patrol, because their E5 NCOIC fancied herself just the same as a maneuver unit, I noticed but it was too late they were inside some house of the village…
18: FET teams nothing but trouble, compromise security:
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 14, 2024
"I’ve got a story. I’m ripping out with the replacement platoon. My guys have already gone back to KAF ready to go home. I stick around and go on patrols for 5 days with the incoming platoon. First day I’m showing them how…
20. Women getting special UCMJ treatment:
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 15, 2024
"Here’s my women in the military story. When I was a CPT I PCS’d to a new duty station and was immediately put in charge of a female Puerto Rican LTC in my specialty, which is extremely unusual given that she outranked me by two ranks.…
22. Female in the UK armed forces has requirements waived, is passed through training with the stated goal of graduating her as a female Marine, despite not meeting standards required for males: pic.twitter.com/XBtXIxncE8
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 15, 2024
24: Further detail on female strategies to avoid duty. It’s common for females in the military to get pregnant to avoid deployment.
— 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 (@myth_pilot) November 15, 2024
Some then go on to abort the baby.
They are not ordered back to deployment once no longer pregnant. pic.twitter.com/Iu0aPgYiUH
