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2017-07-02 Government

Pentagon delays plan for transgender recruits

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-07-02 00:07|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 A lot of spare toilets to build and barracks to construct so the sleeping arrangements can be sorted out. And of course the Special Forces training program , not to mention the Marines.

And what to call the Nancy Boys platoon.And whether to integrate the nancy's into Bootcamp separately as individuals or to form them as separate units altogether and who will be their DI?

And the Insurance alone to cover life expectancy is a caution.

How would you like to be a Bruce or a Dwayne in Boot ? Or shipped to Afghanustan....provided you lived long enough to even get deployed.

Lots of MOS problems too...oh and don't stand near the helicopter gunship door without your monkey belt on.

Posted by Goober Gray5363 2017-07-02 05:21|| 2017-07-02 05:21|| Front Page Top

#2 ...This was a horrifyingly bad idea from the word go. I have known some folks who have gone through the transgender process, and although they have all been good, decent people, they would NOT have made good soldiers, sailors, airmen, or Marines, no matter how well-intentioned their desire to serve.

Transitioning means - for lack of a better term - rewiring your brain on the fly, no matter how sure you are of what it is you're doing. On top of that, there are physical problems involved (aftereffects of surgery, hormone therapy, etc) that never go away. Putting people like this in a combat zone - and realistically, you know that's where it would have gone eventually - would have led to confusion and casualties. At some point, you would have had people deciding what to send to a firebase on a crowded convoy: medication or munitions...and you would have had people with no skin in the fight whatsoever demanding that they send the medications.

Chaos Actual made the right call, though I wish the President and the JCS had publicly endorsed it as well.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-07-02 07:12|| 2017-07-02 07:12|| Front Page Top

#3 People concentrating on this are people who will never be able to focus on mission. It defeats the purpose of a Military.

Posted by newc 2017-07-02 12:09|| 2017-07-02 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 The military is not a social experiment. Darwin frowns on 'suits' that fail to learn. There is no appeal from death, no advocates, no judges, no pols. Just death. The Go, No-Go station is final. What is reprehensible is that it endangers others for no purpose other than someone's virtue signalling.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-07-02 16:44|| 2017-07-02 16:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, reality strikes.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-07-02 23:53|| 2017-07-02 23:53|| Front Page Top

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