How do you feel about the Army directing units to place new female Armor and Infantry officers in leadership positions ahead of males?

I'm going to be the elephant in the room women in command of infantry units just won't work regardless if she cuts the mustard! These are hardened combat tested soldies who knows what it's like to actually be in combat not sitting in a fortified office in a large base safe from hostile action except an occasional incoming blast! You can not expect soldiers to follow a non combat soldier regardless of rank or gender!!! Respect is earned not because you wear the officer rank but because you've proven yourself! This is a social experiment that is destined to failure of epic porportions! The Marines are the only branch of service who have tge balls to stand up to these PC libtards who are destroying the military! There will be a new group of children raised without a mother for what the chance to die all in tge quest for equality! Glad I'm retired cause I wouldn't happy to follow this I'll fated edict!!!

SFC Emerson "Zeus" Hazzard - I don't think we will find the awnser SFC until we as a people start thinking with knowledge and not forced into a awnser

CPT Richard Fematt - "You can not expect soldiers to follow a non combat soldier regardless of rank or gender!!!" No, you expect Soldiers to follow the orders of those appointed over them. I retired about six years ago but isn't that still in the Oath of Enlistment?

It is no better for a child to be raised without a father than to be raised without a mother. That is a ridiculous argument.

ALL Soldiers, including Females, should be placed into units based on an order of merit list using a number system in the same way that senior NCOs receive a number when selected for promotion and are promoted when their number comes up.

SP6 Cajun Ray - it may be a ridiculous argument but I've been there seen how noncombatant soldiers are seeing by those that have actually engaged in real combat operations! It's just a fact and like I said it's a social experiment destined to failure! It is a time honored tradition that men go off to war and some don't come back it's a risk all military families accept! Most men are just not ready to take on the role of a mother. It's human nature to look at a senior ranking officer or SNCO without the combat patch in a different way! There is just no way an officer can understand what his soldiers experience as it relates to PTSD, TBI or other just everyday life. The Army fails it's soldiers when high ranking officers are placed in a command position and doesn't wear the patch. You may disagree with me and that's fine but I put 28 years into the military 16 years as an active duty Marine and 12 years as an Officer in the Army and I've seen it all. Females regardless of qualifications based on merit still do not belong in front line infantry units, the Marine Corps proved this point through field exercises involving mixed units pitted against an all male unit! Tge results bear out the facts mixed unit performed poorly as compared to all male units!!!

That IS affirmative action. Now that we have women in all jobs, which is no their right, when will our government change the rules for Selective Service registration? Equality is equality on both sides of the sword. Young women now should have to register for the Selective Service within 90 days of their 18th birthday. The bigger picture that most people forget is that Financial Aid for post secondary education is tied to the Selective Service registration. So how is a young male equal, when if he does not register, he gets no Federal financial aid but young females can continue to draw without the commitment to the Selective Service?

I am soooo grateful for my precious DD 214.

Leadership is Earned and Not Given Just Because! This is not an Election Process, but a Carefully Selection of those who Can Perform and are Qualified to be in that Leadership Position. Now that's Equality

Well said. SMSgt Ken Plummer

Well said. I can't imagine it would be any other way.