I always thought it unfair that I was competing for promotion against someone 15 years younger than me that only had to do half as many push ups and could take an extra 3 minutes to do the 2 mile run.

Great Article and nice sentiment.  But it aint going to happen (leaving them alone).  Political correctness will not tolerate it, nor with the pimple headed bureaucrats.

Hoo-AH!!!

When I get into discussions about females in combat units I always point out the lessons learned in Desert Storm.

I have never found any of these statistics published anywhere, but as a radio operator at command level in an Army airborne unit, these are the kind of statistics that passed through my commo equipment, to the company grade staff officers and on to the Colonel's morning briefing.

The facts are:

Females made up around 11-13% of the U.S. presence in Desert Storm.

Females accounted for around 32% of the daily sick call.

In the average week, around 20 females were sent back to home station due to pregnancy.

Now, do females have just as much right to go on sick call as males? Of course they do, but apparently, even in a war where almost all females were in support units, they accounted for 3 times their numbers in need for sick call.

Anyone who has served in a forward or Special Ops type unit can tell you how cleanliness is next to impossible. One question I ask females who get into this topic with me is; Could you go for weeks without washing yourself, without ending up with health problems?

Until women are built differently than men, it should be a given that women and men should not be deployed the same. It's not discrimination, it is basic biology.

Pregnancies, rapes, little silly high school games, you name it. It was aweful. The biggest problem I saw was not really the difference in the sexes, but the age. Do you expect theses 18 and 19 and 20 year olds to keep there hands off each other? It was a ridiculous situation. It is that mahem that must be avoided in the Teams. When you add femals to certain units......the drama comes with it. Just as much the guys fault as the girls

i guess it depends on who was doin the raping.

. One day at morning quaters, our addressed the issue of women being allowed in the Teams. Rumours have always losely circled around about women attending Bud/s. He said this, the day we have a female SEAL is the day I turn in my Trident. It is a fact that most Team Guys would do the same

the guy who seems to have originally posted this at navyseals.com uses the nick 'tadpole215' .  i hadda buncha other stuff to say but im laffin too hard bout poor lil tadpole and his grabbin their tridents and heading for the last all male bastions...the bathhouses of san francisco.  

the last all male bastions...the bathhouses of san francisco.

So what would happen if the PC crowd decided that them bathhouses need to go coed!!