Posted on Jun 25, 2016
Bill Requiring Women to Register for the Draft Passes Senate
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Some women scream about equality...well, here you go! I think it would be a good thing if the verbiage was such that every able-bodied person had to serve a mandatory enlistment of no less than a full 5 years, before marriage and having kids, and before benefits like the GI Bill, or any others were even considered. Our nation's recent generations have become entitled, spoiled brats, with no discipline or accountability. They think it's all fun and games to bring children into this world, because they live in a society that has given them the idea that they will be taken care of without lifting a finger. They use and abuse the system to have everything handed to them - food, housing (a whole house, utilities and all paid for, that they proceed to fill up with more kids), school and job training, and even a car and cell phone! They are clueless, irreverent, ungrateful sponges, content to sit back and create and perpetuate the vicious cycle of laziness and dependency. This would be an excellent answer to stopping the hemorrhage of resources, and earning and repaying their share of debt to society.
Bill Requiring Women to Register for the Draft Passes Senate
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From equal rights comes equal responsibilities. I don't think I could have said this better myself.
By Kellee Ryan as printed in the Colorado Springs Gazette (26 Jun 2016)
Nothing wrong with drafting women
In reply to Jennifer Beauford’s letter “Don’t Draft Our Daughters” published in the June 19 edition of The Gazette:
Ms. Beauford, let’s just get this out of the way: It is obvious that you have never served in the military. I am a female veteran who served 20 years in the Air Force, and I can tell you that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the concept of drafting women.
There are several steps the president and Congress can take to gradually augment our volunteer forces in times of war before drafting civilians is necessary. If we have implemented all other options and still need the draft, then our country’s basic existence as a free and sovereign nation is at stake, and I sincerely hope all American women of draft age would be willing to step up and fight for that. With equal rights come equal responsibilities, and your daughter shouldn’t be able to stay home and get her weekly mani-pedi while the boys go off to do that icky war thing.
Your letter was also full of conveniently cherry-picked information. You quoted the Marine Corps Gender Integration Task Force report citing the success of all-male units vs. integrated ones, but that study also stated “female Marines have performed superbly in the combat environments of Iraq and Afghanistan and are fully part of the fabric of a combat-hardened Marine Corps after the longest period of continuous combat operations in the Corps’ history.” You also failed to add that, in direct contrast to the Marine report, the Army recommended full gender integration of all their combat jobs.
The U.S. military has embraced the 21st century and recognizes that women are a crucial part of our country’s defense. As part of a unit that earned the Gallant Unit Citation for combat action in Afghanistan and having earned an Air Force Commendation Medal for my own actions while serving with Air Force Special Operations Command during the Iraq War in 2003, I am proud to have been one of them.
Kellee Ryan
Colorado Springs
By Kellee Ryan as printed in the Colorado Springs Gazette (26 Jun 2016)
Nothing wrong with drafting women
In reply to Jennifer Beauford’s letter “Don’t Draft Our Daughters” published in the June 19 edition of The Gazette:
Ms. Beauford, let’s just get this out of the way: It is obvious that you have never served in the military. I am a female veteran who served 20 years in the Air Force, and I can tell you that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the concept of drafting women.
There are several steps the president and Congress can take to gradually augment our volunteer forces in times of war before drafting civilians is necessary. If we have implemented all other options and still need the draft, then our country’s basic existence as a free and sovereign nation is at stake, and I sincerely hope all American women of draft age would be willing to step up and fight for that. With equal rights come equal responsibilities, and your daughter shouldn’t be able to stay home and get her weekly mani-pedi while the boys go off to do that icky war thing.
Your letter was also full of conveniently cherry-picked information. You quoted the Marine Corps Gender Integration Task Force report citing the success of all-male units vs. integrated ones, but that study also stated “female Marines have performed superbly in the combat environments of Iraq and Afghanistan and are fully part of the fabric of a combat-hardened Marine Corps after the longest period of continuous combat operations in the Corps’ history.” You also failed to add that, in direct contrast to the Marine report, the Army recommended full gender integration of all their combat jobs.
The U.S. military has embraced the 21st century and recognizes that women are a crucial part of our country’s defense. As part of a unit that earned the Gallant Unit Citation for combat action in Afghanistan and having earned an Air Force Commendation Medal for my own actions while serving with Air Force Special Operations Command during the Iraq War in 2003, I am proud to have been one of them.
Kellee Ryan
Colorado Springs
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