Posted on Feb 5, 2016
Could female officers soon be forced into combat arms branches?
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This article explains the Army's plan to integrate women into combat arms http://www.army.mil/article/105814/.
In OCS and ROTC when you commission you get a wish list of branch assignments. If the needs of the Army are not in line with your list, then you get what the Army gives you. Do you think we'll see a personnel office force branch a female to combat arms? Should this be a thing?
In OCS and ROTC when you commission you get a wish list of branch assignments. If the needs of the Army are not in line with your list, then you get what the Army gives you. Do you think we'll see a personnel office force branch a female to combat arms? Should this be a thing?
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No one is forced into a branch, we are all assessed into them! So, yes, woman could / should be assessed into combat arms now that all combat arms jobs have been opened up!
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CPT Pedro Meza
Sad to say that we might end up with more women to men requesting combat arms, therefore negating the need for the ARMY to branch an officer. It is sad because the men will complain based on what I see here in RP.
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CPT Pedro Meza - I doubt more women will be requesting combat arms than men. More women will request combat arms since the branches are opening up but that is somewhat different.
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CPT Pedro Meza
CPT (Join to see) - Look at this way young Men will be requesting their dream Branch, while young women will be requesting the Branch with a challenge. I look at human nature and how young American behave today.
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A local Personnel Office doesn't assign your branch, HRC does. There is an accessions process where branches vote on your file. The way it worked was your #1 branch choice had right of first refusal. Then you your #2...then so on. Then there was a reshuffle based on needs of the Army and actual branch accessions requirements.
I hope the accession process rules are the same as when I assessed. It used to be two combat arms, combat support, and combat service support branches in your top six. Register for the draft? You bet. In for a penny, in for a pound. GEN Milley says no standards will change. Let's get on with this and be done with it.
A current article, as opposed to a 2013 article. http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/648766/officials-describe-plans-to-integrate-women-into-combat-roles
I hope the accession process rules are the same as when I assessed. It used to be two combat arms, combat support, and combat service support branches in your top six. Register for the draft? You bet. In for a penny, in for a pound. GEN Milley says no standards will change. Let's get on with this and be done with it.
A current article, as opposed to a 2013 article. http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/648766/officials-describe-plans-to-integrate-women-into-combat-roles
Officials Describe Plans to Integrate Women into Combat Roles
Senior service officials outlined plans to integrate women into combat roles before a Senate panel, and agreed incorporating women into combat ranks is the right path for the future.
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MAJ (Join to see)
Thanks for the perspective and article! I'm a guard OCS guy, we were given a wish list of 3 branches but the State G1 ultimately decided. For the most part if there was a unit vacancy of that branch in the State then the officer would get it, else he/she would get the needs of the State.
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LTC Jason Mackay
If they stick to what they have said, then this will go as well as it is going to. Did not know the States accesses that way.
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MAJ (Join to see) - Captain; That may well happen.
Face it, when you join as an officer you accept a much higher level of risk, responsibility, and commitment than someone who simply wants to get some vocational training does.
Am I opposed to female officers serving in the Combat Arms? See the three Captains shown above.
(Actually I'm not overly keen on ANYONE serving in combat. Killing people really sucks as a way to make a living. However being killed by people who don't agree with that sucks even more.)
Face it, when you join as an officer you accept a much higher level of risk, responsibility, and commitment than someone who simply wants to get some vocational training does.
Am I opposed to female officers serving in the Combat Arms? See the three Captains shown above.
(Actually I'm not overly keen on ANYONE serving in combat. Killing people really sucks as a way to make a living. However being killed by people who don't agree with that sucks even more.)
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CPT Pedro Meza
Given that I managed to survived being killed by female guerrilla fighters in Colombia my belief is if women volunteer to join then they have done so knowing that combat will come, however if faced against them shoot them first, they are evil.
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