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101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), XVIII Airborne Corps
Posted on Feb 5, 2018
Women Can Now Join U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division
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I reckon the 101st hasn't had any women in it for the last 50 or so years until this super-reporter discovered them. If you're wanting to know how to write click-bait, it doesn't get any better than this. Infantry slots are opening to women....nothing new to see here. Move on folks.
Women Can Now Join U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division
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Posted 6 y ago
Responses: 8
Posted 6 y ago
So all those women I served with in the 101st in the 1980's were not really women? Oh-oh.
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SSG Warren Swan
6 y
Nope. You were imagining them being there. The reporter knows more than you.....
Micheal Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer will make another bad movie where the women blow everything in sight away with their M4's and bad attitudes. Just when you are ready to throw in the towel, for a bad depiction of them and their capabilities, there will be a "make me a sammich" reference by the resident bad ass Alpha Male just to take the accomplishment away form them.
Micheal Bay or Jerry Bruckheimer will make another bad movie where the women blow everything in sight away with their M4's and bad attitudes. Just when you are ready to throw in the towel, for a bad depiction of them and their capabilities, there will be a "make me a sammich" reference by the resident bad ass Alpha Male just to take the accomplishment away form them.
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CPT Lawrence Cable
6 y
That was my thoughts. No female in pilots when I was in, but there were certainly female medics, AG, supply etc. I assume that they mean that they can now serve in one of the Infantry squads.
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MSG Lonnie Averkamp
6 y
Well, when I was a grunt in the A-Sau Mountains in Vietnam, we got the Stars and Stripes Newspaper, with the headline being, "PRESIDENT NIXON DECLARES NO COMBAT TROOPS NORTH OF DA NANG" ....................... same thing.
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Posted 6 y ago
As long as they can keep to their male counterpart's physical standards and do not require special needs then I have zero problems with this. That being said, if standards are lowered for them, then I have real issues with the situation.
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SSG Warren Swan
6 y
You're taking the literal and correct assessment. I don't think there are too many women in any branch that would want to use their sex as a means to lower standards to compete against their male counterparts. I know there's always going to be the one, but that shouldn't hold water against the whole. While there are those who will, there are equally as many men if not more who will swear up and down they all are.
But I saw women in 1st ID.....or was that my imagination also? When did 101st get special in regards to getting women who were already there?
But I saw women in 1st ID.....or was that my imagination also? When did 101st get special in regards to getting women who were already there?
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CPL Richard Flagg
6 y
Exactly SSG Philips, as long as the standards are lit lessened or tweaked; because when they are the overall quality of the organization will suffer.
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LTC (Join to see)
6 y
With the tone of gunny and deleting pretty pink panties for the rest of my sentence LOL. I salute back at you!
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