Congratulations to all of you!
Not sure, who you are congratulating and what does love have to do with army related things?
I’ll give you a hint about who I’m congratulating then:
800 service members kicked out under [Don’t Ask Don’t Tell] just got discharges upgraded to honorable
As for what that has to do with love, I’m sorry that you don’t understand what they told that they weren’t supposed to tell.
Maybe you need to look up what Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was?
Damn, that’s the shortest memory I’ve ever seen. I’d give you a medal or something, but you might forget what it is and try to eat it.
Can you shoot? Can you move? Can you communicate?
Then who the fuck cares who you prefer to be involved with!? Especially when a lot of soldiers/officers seem to like to be with other people’s wives/husbands!
This is the same reason why women should be allowed the same combat positions as men. They still aren’t and it’s stupid.
If I remember correctly, the US started rolling back restrictions in 2013. Progress has definitely been slow, and we aren’t where we should be yet, but things are moving in the right direction.
We still have a ways to go with psychologist research, to be fair. My dad served two tours between 2003-2006 and only more recently came to understand PTSD isn’t something you just “get over.”
Same for sexism. It’s not easy for service members to get over that engrained idea of protecting women at the cost of the team. There’s a lot of promising research in resilience studies preparing military members prior to entering combat that I think could apply. As long as researchers and artists involved in VR type training are careful to include particular elements like more femme voices and such, it can be overcome before it’s an issue in active combat
And to be clear, I’m not familiar with the research veterans have cited to me that it is an issue to begin with. I’ve only really looked at PTSD and the use of VR for exposure therapy and CBT. I’m inclined to believe it would be an issue for at least some men. I’d like to look at Israel as a case study example when I get some time since they’ve had compulsory service for men and women for a while now
Name one combat position women aren’t allowed in (US).
Navy SEAL when I was in. That may have changed since then, I’ve been out for well over a decade.
You’re giving squids a bad name. Surely you understood the question refers to present, not the past, right?
I would argue that half the army recruits can only do two out of the three of those, and half them only one at a time.
This should’ve been done sooner.
All justice should be swifter. I’m still glad some people got acknowledged.
Well put
