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Women Serving in Combat Positions Is a Batty Idea

jaybird8 Wrote: Jan 27, 2013 1:33 PM

(c) Only 21 women out of the initial 623 (3.4%) achieved a score equal to the male mean score of 260. (d) On the push-up test, only seven percent of women can meet a score of 60, while 78 percent of men exceed it. (e) Adopting a male standard of fitness at West Point would mean 70 percent of the women he studied would be separated as failures at the end of their junior year, only three percent would be eligible for the Recondo badge, and not one would receive the Army Physical Fitness badge.

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Women Serving in Combat Positions Is a Batty Idea

Last Thursday Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and other U.S. military leaders lifted the ban on women serving in combat positions. I, for one, think this is a great idea and have a few modest proposals, if the brass inside the beltway is open to suggestions, on how they should deploy the dames (and whom they should deploy).

First off, if you truly want to eviscerate the enemy—namely Muslims—then I propose sending the most nerve grating and foul women Hollywood has to offer straight into hot zones as our forward armies. I’m a thinkin’ starting off with Roseanne Barr, Joy...

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