We Knew this was coming.

[numan]

You cannot insult by calling me a private....

You should look up what a böhmischer Gefreiter is (or perhaps I should say THE böhmischer Gefreiter). It's not a private.

It is what General von Hindenberg called a high-ranking subordinate. One might expect you to feel complimented, rather than insulted.
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[SFC Ollie]

Did you know my first wife was German and that I have 2 sons living in Germany? Yes that means I speak a fair amount of German and Gefreiter is a Private. I've no clue what a Bohmischer could be. But one thing I know for certain, I have many doubts that you are making an attempt to compliment me.

 

[numan]

Did you know my first wife was German and that I have 2 sons living in Germany? Yes that means I speak a fair amount of German and Gefreiter is a Private.

Gefreiter is usually translated "corporal", though in the US Army I think it can be equivalent to a private first class.

I've no clue what a Bohmischer could be. But one thing I know for certain, I have many doubts that you are making an attempt to compliment me.

How sad to see so much cynicism in one so young.
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[SFC Ollie]

Actually it is normally the second to the lowest rank possible. In the US Army that would be a private. I believe it may be called a Lance Corporal in the Swiss military, but still the second lowest enlisted rank. Something that I held for less than 3 months.

Now do you have anything intelligent to relate to us about the subject matter? You know, the OP....

 

[Mad Scientist]

Better be careful Newman. KFC Ollie is gettin' ready to call you an "asswipe".

You may NEVER recover!

 

[numan]

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I have already placed a stick between my teeth to help me endure the pain.
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[Sunshine]

U.S. Army trainers will soon lead an effort to create gender-neutral physical standards for all soldiers as part of a plan to allow women to serve in infantry, Special Forces and other combat arms jobs.
Army Submits Plan to Open Combat Jobs for Women | Military.com


Translation: We will now lower the standards for everyone so that women can qualify the same as the men, who won't have to work as hard as they used to.

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time I can honestly say that's not my military and I'm glad I'm out........

This is just one more step in the downward spiral of this once great country....

It's sad.

I think that if a woman wants to advance in the military there should be a way. There are many women who have served in combat zones and others who are still there. I know a nurse who was deployed for over a year. She came back to work as messed up in the head with PTSD as any veteran I ever treated. It would seem that there is enough 'general type' work now that if they would just count the things women do that women could advance. Nurses in a combat zone putting American fighting men back together and being at risk for death themselves should, IMO, be adequate without the military having to bend itself into a pretzel. And I can tell you all about 'secondary' PTSD from having worked with veterans. The therapists on the home front who have to put vets minds back together actually get PTSD from listening to their stuff.

 

[Warrior102]

This is just one more step in the downward spiral of this once great country....

Amen brother

 

[SFC Ollie]

U.S. Army trainers will soon lead an effort to create gender-neutral physical standards for all soldiers as part of a plan to allow women to serve in infantry, Special Forces and other combat arms jobs.
Army Submits Plan to Open Combat Jobs for Women | Military.com


Translation: We will now lower the standards for everyone so that women can qualify the same as the men, who won't have to work as hard as they used to.

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time I can honestly say that's not my military and I'm glad I'm out........

This is just one more step in the downward spiral of this once great country....

It's sad.

I think that if a woman wants to advance in the military there should be a way. There are many women who have served in combat zones and others who are still there. I know a nurse who was deployed for over a year. She came back to work as messed up in the head with PTSD as any veteran I ever treated. It would seem that there is enough 'general type' work now that if they would just count the things women do that women could advance. Nurses in a combat zone putting American fighting men back together and being at risk for death themselves should, IMO, be adequate without the military having to bend itself into a pretzel. And I can tell you all about 'secondary' PTSD from having worked with veterans. The therapists on the home front who have to put vets minds back together actually get PTSD from listening to their stuff.

You are correct, in fact a Nurse is always an Officer... But what they are looking at is lowering the Physical standards for combat arms jobs so that more women can qualify for those jobs. And lowering the standards simply is not a good idea, ever........

 

[numan]

This is just one more step in the downward spiral of this once great country....

I do hope so.

Perhaps, one day, we will reach the point where we will even be finally free of the foul incubus of the Constitution, and throw it in the garbage bin of history.

I always tell people that if Americans had any sense, they would put their affairs under the direction of the British Colonial Office, until such time as Americans are ready for self-government.
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[SFC Ollie]

Damn, another hour before I can neg this douche bag again.......

 

[numan]

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We all have our trials, böhmischer Gefreiter.

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[namvet]

the new USA

 

[bripat9643]

Watch the military lower the standards for women. You know they'r egoing to do it to avoid the wrath of MOOCHelle and the rest of the feminists.

Marines: Most Female Recruits Don't Meet New Pullup Standard : NPR

Starting Jan. 1, every woman in the Marines Corps was supposed to meet a new physical standard by performing three pullups. But that has been put off.

The Marine Corps announced it quietly. There was no news conference — just a notice on its social media sites and an item on its own TV show, The Corps Report.

Lance Cpl. Ally Beiswanger explained that the pullup test had been put off until sometime next year, to gather more data and "ensure all female Marines are given the best opportunity to succeed."

So far, female Marines are not succeeding. Fifty-five percent of female recruits tested at the end of boot camp were doing fewer than three pullups; only 1 percent of male recruits failed the test.

The three pullups is already the minimum required for all male Marines. Now the Marine Corps has postponed the plan, and that's raising questions about whether women have the physical strength to handle ground combat, which they'll be allowed to do beginning in 2016.

Marine officers would not talk to NPR on tape. They said they delayed the pullup requirement to avoid losing not only recruits but also current female Marines who can't pass the test.

The Marine Corps has been using it to test upper body strength for men for more than 40 years. And that upper body strength, they say, is necessary to serve in ground combat: to pull yourself out of a canal in Afghanistan, to climb over a mud wall, to carry an ammunition box.​

 

[Daktoria]

Marines, neoconservatism, feminism...

...same thing. Isn't that what neocons campaigned on when it came to the wars in the Middle East anyway - how radical Islamofascists treated their women?

If I only had a nickel every time people complained about feminists because they support women being allowed to abuse beta males...

...besides, the marines will probably enjoy having more women in their ranks anyway to help compensate for their lack of social assimilation into civilian society.

Aye yay yay......

 

[Moonglow]

The military started to allow females and males to be trained jointly in basic training in 1982. You know it was really the feminist Nancy Reagan of which you reffer.

 

[bripat9643]

Marines, neoconservatism, feminism...

...same thing. Isn't that what neocons campaigned on when it came to the wars in the Middle East anyway - how radical Islamofascists treated their women?

If I only had a nickel every time people complained about feminists because they support women being allowed to abuse beta males...

...besides, the marines will probably enjoy having more women in their ranks anyway to help compensate for their lack of social assimilation into civilian society.

Aye yay yay......

You're a moron. There's no point bothering with a substantive response to your infantile babble.

 

[Daktoria]

The military started to allow females and males to be trained jointly in basic training in 1982. You know it was really the feminist Nancy Reagan of which you reffer.

Exactly.

It's really amazing how often conservatives ignore how much feminism has infected their ideology.

Rugged individualism hooah! /facepalm

Yes, let's just ignore domestic violence against men and how the public education system tolerates girls bullying boys because boys are supposed to be tough and so many conservatives aren't willing to confront female, feminist, unionized teachers.

Let's just throw boys into the military instead after getting socially alienated by the destruction of family values, ruining of public education, and tolerance of mass media pop culture consumerism backed by the free market.

It's no wonder the right is viewed as being anti-intellectual.

 

[deltex1]

Help her out...arms around her thighs...face in her ass...lift up! Oooooorah!

 

[Moonglow]

The military started to allow females and males to be trained jointly in basic training in 1982. You know it was really the feminist Nancy Reagan of which you reffer.

Exactly.

It's really amazing how often conservatives ignore how much feminism has infected their ideology.

Rugged individualism hooah! /facepalm

Yes, let's just ignore domestic violence against men and how the public education system tolerates girls bullying boys because boys are supposed to be tough and so many conservatives aren't willing to confront female, feminist, unionized teachers.

Let's just throw boys into the military instead after getting socially alienated by the destruction of family values, ruining of public education, and tolerance of mass media pop culture consumerism backed by the free market.

It's no wonder the right is viewed as being anti-intellectual.

You eat all that at once?