Originally Posted by Steve Rupe

She may be as qualified to serve as you are but I doubt that you are qualified to serve. Unless she is a bull dyke and is full of testosterone she is not 100% capable of performing her role in the MOS as a medic. She is not capable of carrying or dragging a 200 lb man out of harms way in order to treat him.

The military allows women to serve in many MOS's that they are not 100% qualified to serve in. I have many friends that have served and are still serving and all have testified to this fact. Just as another example; women are allowed the MOS for driving a truck but they cannot perform 100% of all that is involved in that MOS, the average woman driver cannot change a tire on a duece and a half, she cannot lift five gallon Jerry cans of gas to put gas into the truck, she cannot load or off load much of what is carried on the truck.

A woman is allowed the MOS of being a Micro Wave Systems Operator and they cannot perform 100% of all that is involved in that MOS. They cannot lift the 5 gallon Jerry cans of gas to fill the Generators. The majority of them cannot use the heavy sledge hammers to pound the long heavy iron stakes in for the guide wires on the Micro Dishes.

Men in these MOS's have to be able to perform all of these feats in order to obtain the MOS. They brass turn their heads when it comes to women being able to meet the requirements of the MOS. There really are very few MOS's in the military that women can perform 100% of the requirements.

Men have to go out of their way to assist women in performing the duties required of the MOS that PC allows them to serve in. Men cannot act like men or talk like men when women are serving in MOS's that they are not actually qualified to server in.

One of my friends, an NCO, was an instructor for summer drills for West Point Cadets. Women are now allowed to serve at the Point. My friend was on the firing range as an instructor when the cadets were firing .50 Cal's MG's. A female cadet could not clear her MG when it jammed. She asked my friend to clear it for her. He told her no that he would not that she had been trained on that procedure and to clear it herself. He then went on to say something along the lines of, if you can't don't worry about it, you won't ever be required to use one in combat anyhow.

She reported him and he was reprimanded not for not helping her but for "Sexual Harassment" and this went into his jacket. In addition he was removed from being an instructor for the Cadets. He did not mind that so much but a permanent black mark on his record for "Sexual Harassment" pissed him off and when his enlistment was up after 12 years in the service he did not reenlist.

The powers that be should never have done away with the WAC's and over women's branches. The WAC's could all perform their MOS's 100%.