Women in Combat roles (I am fully in support of this change) - the real problem is going to be.....

[underpants]

Middle Managment

Anyone in any work setting has seen good management and bad management and in between.
Sgt.s in the Army have healthy, MALE, well-trained, and well-conditioned (in all senses of the word) underlings who have no choice but to do what they say. Now there are differences in Sgt.s but at the end you have to do what they say. PLDC's (Primary Leadership Development Course) basic message is "You are NEVER WRONG!!" - this is the month long bootcamp for soon-to-be-Sgt.s.

Women are not predisposed to not follow orders, they are much more disciplined and practical as a rule, but that one little change in the workforce is going to be very hard for many in the middle management to handle.

I was a gunner on a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. A supposed ultra-masculine job....but there was nothing that I did that a properly trained women couldn't have done just like us properly trained males.

I am very glad to see this change, this progressive change.


BTW - the same types of things were said when the Army was desegregated in 1950. Think about that and what change it brought to the whole country. It had to be desegregated due to the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses in the CONSTITUTION. These clauses are the same reason that gay marriage (and the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell) will have to become legal.

[alarimer]

1. No I think the real problem is antiquated gender roles

For both men and women. You'd think, after all the gains we've made, that we'd be more accepting of women who want to join the army and actually do what they are trained to do as well as be more accepting of men who show vulnerability and emotions other than rage.

I think this is a tempest in a teapot. Things will work out okay. They do need to do something about the military rape culture though. That will be a far bigger problem, since the military seems to have no interest in stopping it.