Deaf teacher's quest for armed service inspires students

Those programs might be a good way to test the viability of it. But I like that the article mentions that Isreal has been utilizing deaf soldiers for years with great success. Once again, as with females serving in combat rolls, they lead the way with "outside the box" thinking that directly increases their readiness.

I agree about what you'd mentioned about Israel, generally, they've tended to quite avant garde about such concepts, certainly. However, being a considerably smaller society, under as much pressure as it is, I'd expect that getting such concepts approved there might perhaps just be more readily feasible than the likely interminable debate that might occur here, or, perhaps, in the EU, that's all I'd seek to suggest. I could certainly perceive females being capable of such unconventional thought, of course, israel has, of course, been using them in such a fashion in combat arms for quite some time. One thing that tends to happen here, quite frequently, with such experimentation, is a form of, basically, "cultural amnesia", if you will. Females were used extensively in combat by Europe, incl the UK, as well as the US, during ww2, especially in the OSS, many times. And yet, once ww2 ended, stereotypical cultural norms in more entrenched societies generally reasserted themselves, for the most part. I'm obv not suggesting such phenomena are good, by any means, merely a function of social inertia, despite social evolutionary changes tending to resist such stagnation, that's all, honest. There'll obv be, I'd expect quite soon, female chiefs of staff, a female CNO, and a female USCG and USPHS Commandant, I believe there's already, if I'm not mistaken, been at least one or more female USPHS surgeon generals, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, however, I seem to recall that. There'll also be female special forces, it'll just take some time, nothing more, it's no longer a question of if, merely a question of when. I'd mentioned on here some time ago elsewhere the book Eisenhower was my boss, by Eisenhower's UK female driver, kay summersby. Shed been driving FDR in North Africa, he'd told her to stop for something to eat. They started chatting, and she asked FDR apparently if he thought females would ever be drafted and used in combat, to which FDR answered, shed said, no, that Amer society would never permit it. Social evolution, for good or ill, is as inexorable as any other evolutionary variety, and, for that reason, typically, frequently, often tends to take considerable time. Necessity is very definitely not the mother of invention all the time; invention is quite frequently the stepchild of necessity, as well. Exigency creates necessity, and where exigency exists, solutions generally follow, even when requiring massive social alteration, to overcome stagnant social mores and or cultural viewpoints, that's all I'm trying to suggest, hope that was of interest, I'd be interested in any thoughts, many thanks.