I AGREE WITH PETE
FRANCES CLALEN |
Pete Hegseth is hoping to be confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense. Some of his goals are to get rid of D.E.I., all wokeness programs in the military, and one thing that I am very much in agreement on removing women from combat units. Pete wants to make our military the best and most lethal military in the world. In the modern age of radical feminism I suspect that the majority of women will agree with Pete on this one. I am sure that the few radical feminists who don't agree with him will disagree violently. As a 21 year veteran of the military I think that my opinion has some merit on this subject. Although I have never served in combat I have trained extensively for it and I have studied military history since I was a child. I am convinced that American women are as brave and patriotic as any man. Physically, however; most women are not built for combat. Men are stronger and faster on average. They have greater lung capacity and body mass. We are finding this out almost daily with this stupid transgender issue in America. Mediocre male athletes that can't beat other men men athletes are identifying as women and defeating all their female opponents in competition. There were probably more women than we really know who fought in our early wars like the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War but these women had to fight disguised as men. They could get away with it because Army doctors didn't do a full body exam on recruits if they even did one at all back then. Doctors were primarily satisfied if the new recruit had both arms and legs as well as a full set of teeth to rip the end off of a paper cartridge. Women weren't able to get away with hiding their gender in the more modern wars that required full physicals in order to serve in the military.
Pete Hegseth |
There were women who fought on both sides in the Civil War. Many times they served because they didn't want to be separated from their husbands or boyfriends. Regiments then were formed from local communities and most of the time friends and family members could serve together. My great great grandfather Isaac Mayfield fought with two of his sons in the 13th Kentucky Infantry. This is why husbands and wives served together in the same unit. Like men, they fought for various reasons. Women sometimes joined to get away from a bad home situation, or they were bored, or they were just patriotic like the men. The picture above is of Frances Clalen. Francis was an Illinois farm wife and mother of three children when she joined the Union Cavalry in 1861. She wanted to be close to her husband. In order to maintain her identity as a male she learned to chew tobacco, play poker, and swear as well as any man. She went by the name of Jack Williams and served bravely and honorably. She fought in 18 battles. Was wounded three times and captured once. Clalin fought alongside her husband until he was killed at the battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro. After he went down she stepped over his body and resumed the charge until she was wounded and captured by the Confederates. They discovered that she was a woman and turned her over to the Union Army. She tried to re-enlist but the army wouldn't take her back. Clalin became a media sensation. Newspapers loved the angle of a woman loving her husband so much she couldn't be separated from him. She lived the rest of her life in Missouri.
The story about Frances Clalen could be ammunition for people trying to argue in favor of women in combat. Some women are like Clalen but they are in the minority. Hegseth is okay with women in combat as long as they can pass the rigors and high standards of combat training. Yet the military has lowered the standards for combat training in order to accommodate women. He wants to return to the old standards and if a woman can qualify they would be allowed to join combat units. Special Forces like the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers and Delta Force have not lowered their standards and to my knowledge there are no women in these units because they can't handle the training. Barack Obama was the first president to allow women to serve in combat units. The Marine Corps conducted a study during that time that made a strong case against including women in combat units. They found that all male units were more effective than mixed units. Women were more likely to be injured during training than men. The Obama administration ignored this study and went ahead with their decision to allow women in combat units. The problem that I have with women working in traditionally male environments, whether it is the military or in civilian jobs is that standards are lowed in order to accommodate women. This forces men to have to work harder and this practice has been going on since the late 1970's.
When I worked at Colonial Baking Company in the late 1970's they began to hire more women but supervisors wouldn't put them on the hard physical jobs. Before the women came in men worked the easier jobs along with the harder ones. After women began working at the bakery the men were pretty much confined to the hard jobs. When I was a supervisor at Cumberland-Swan in the 1980's they opened the utility and tow truck jobs up to women. Prior to that women were primarily confined to being line operators. A line operator job was not easy but it wasn't as physical as the utility jobs. That job was suited more for a man because the utility person had to lift heavy boxes filled with bottle caps and plastic bottles. They would then pour the contents into a hopper in order to keep the product lines running. The hardest job was the Epsom salts room. There the utility person was required to pound 100 pound bags of salt with a heavy steel bar in order to break up the salt. They then had to pick up the bag and pour the salt into a hopper. The utility worker would do this for eight hours. It was a hot and dirty job requiring strength. This was the type of job that we would rotate the workers so they wouldn't have to work so hard every day. After we started hiring women the supervisors avoided putting women in the salt room causing the men to have to work in there more often. I was one of three production supervisors and I tried to be fair by scheduling women in there on a normal rotation. The women complained to the other supervisors and the women utility workers were removed from my area leaving me with nothing but male workers.
It is bad enough dealing with problems like this in civilian jobs but there is no place for it in the military. Believe me when I say that problems like this do exist. When I was inducted into the Air Force in 1968 women were serving in what was then called the W.A.F.'s or Women's Air Force. The Army had W.A.C.'s or Women's Army Corps. The U.S.Navy had W.A.V.E.S., a WW2 acronym for Women Accepted For Emergency Service. Of course sexism was much more prevalent in society back then and many men were fond of saying join the Navy and ride the W.A.V.E.'s. Finally the Marine Corps had W.M.'s or Women Marines. Some men referred to them as B.A.M.'s or Broad Ass Marines. Men and women trained separately in basic training or boot camp and they lived in separate barracks isolated from the male barracks. They were usually assigned to traditional jobs for women of that time such as administrative, clerical, or medical. When I think of it these were some brave women. Women in the military had to deal with the stereotype that only lesbians and whores served in the military. No good girl would ever join the military and they certainly weren't marriage material. This stereotype was prevalent with both sexes in mainstream society. Although I saw many W.A.F.'s during that time I never really worked with them until I was stationed at N.O.R.A.D. One of my men dated a W.A.F. and I got to know her pretty well. During my last year of the active Air Force the military began to change their policy toward women. For example women were allowed to work as law enforcement Security Police. Originally they were not allowed to work Security because of the possibility that we could be in combat. Back then the Security Police were divided into law enforcement and security units. Law enforcement dealt with traffic control, manning gates and criminal activity on base. I mostly worked security which was guarding Air Force resources, weapons, weapon systems, aircraft and radar facilities.
I was discharged from the regular Air Force in May 1972. In 1977 I joined the Tennessee Air National Guard as a security policeman and the military had radically changed it's policies regarding women. Even then I didn't serve with them until probably the mid 1980's when several women joined our unit. Some worked in administration and a couple served in security. By this time we were very involved with ABGD or Air Base Ground Defense. Which is nothing but infantry training. The Security Police, or Security Forces as they are referred to today, are the infantry of the Air Force. We are the Grunts. The two women that worked security couldn't have been more different. One had a more feminine way about her and the other one was feminist to the core. Our unit was divided into squads and fire teams. I remember training in a fire team once with the the softer of the two. A fire team usually consists of several riflemen, a grenadier and a machine gunner. The girl was the machine gunner required to carry an M-60 which are heavy. We were training one day in the woods and it was very hot. The training was tough. Several times she tried to get one of us to carry her M-60 for her and we had to stop frequently for her to rest. I never trained directly with the more feminist lady but I never heard any complaints on her. She seemed like the type who was out to prove that she was equal to any man. I did experience a couple of situations with her that reinforced my opinion of her. I was once leading a detail that involved heavy lifting and I assigned the men to moving the heavy stuff and gave her the lighter stuff to lift. She came up to me and asked if I gave her the lighter stuff because she was a woman. I can't remember my response but she was right. I did what most men are inclined to do in that situation. Especially traditional men like myself. We have protective instincts toward women and that is hard to overcome.
In the 1948 Arab-Israeli war Israeli women fought alongside the men and one of the biggest hindrances to the Israeli war effort was that the men were overly protective of the women. For that reason it is my understanding that with few exceptions men do most of the fighting in the Israeli Army today. Women serve in vital support and security roles but for the most part they don't serve in combat. On another occasion we were called into the ready room where our NCOIC of security gave us all a good talking to about the off color jokes and sexist remarks made in front of our female Airmen. I took it all in stride because this isn't something that I would be guilty of. I have always tried to steer clear of that kind of talk. After the meeting I walked over to the arms room to check out an M-16. The feminist lady was standing behind me waiting to check out a weapon. I was friends with both of the guys working in the arms room. When one of them saw me he said " How's it going Breeze". Breeze or Seabreez was.my nickname based on my last name Segroves. I answered " can't say it". Don't ask me what that means because for years my black brothers would tell me that when I asked them how they were doing and I just began saying it myself when I was asked how I am doing and I still do to this day. The girl behind me asked me if I said that because she was standing there. I looked at her in bewilderment because I didn't have a clue what she was talking about. She had taken a totally innocent remark on my part and tried to make something sinister out of it. I then began to think that she was the reason for the meeting in the first place. She had probably been the one to complain to our sergeant.
My biggest problem with women serving in combat roles in the infantry, and Pete Hegseth's problem, is the strength difference. I am not talking about fighter pilots or combat jobs in the Navy. I am talking about women in ground infantry combat units. When I was in the service I usually weighed between 200 and 235 pounds. Can a 5'5" 140 pound woman drag me to safety if I was wounded? Can that same woman fight off a man my size in hand to hand combat if I were the enemy and especially if I were hopped up on drugs? In 1979 our unit was pulling our Summer camp down in Savannah Georgia. We were there to support our medical evacuation unit as pretend patients. Some of us were fixed up to look like we had been shot in the stomach with our intestines hanging out or we had compound fractures with the bones sticking out or severe head wounds. It was all pretty realistic. We were strapped onto an army stretcher and then hot loaded on to a running C-130. They hung us in rows suspended in air down the middle of the aircraft. After closing the rear ramps the plane would taxi to the active runway and take off. We circled the field once or twice and then landed. After a short rest we would go through the same process again. Every time I was carried on to the plane by males but once two female nurses picked me up and immediately the one nearest my head dropped me. Luckily my head didn't hit the pavement because the handles cushioned the blow. The nurse dropped me because she dislocated her shoulder picking me up. There are other potential problems besides the strength difference between men and women. Pete Hegseth is all about bringing back the lethality of America's military forces. Unit cohesiveness is a big factor in this. Having both genders in a combat unit can work against unit cohesiveness. It can complicate things. Sexual tension is not a good thing to have in a fox hole or love triangles in a fire team. Hygiene can also be a problem, especially for women. I have been in situations where I couldn't take a shower or change my underwear for days.
Pete Hegseth is wanting to end D.E.I. or Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs along with wokeness in the military. This will go a long way toward ending much of the foolishness that is taking over our military and society right now. Hopefully he can bring back the merit system to the military. D.E.I. is going to get people killed. It allows people to be hired or promoted first based on the color of their skin or if you are homosexual or transgender. Straight white people go to the rear of the line. D.E.I. is the standard in just about every corporation, hospital and government office. Standards should remain high and only the most qualified should be hired. If something is not done more people will die from medical malpractice and aircraft crashes. D.E.I. was probably a factor in the near assassination of President Trump. The head of the Secret Service was probably a D.E.I. hire and it is not a good look when a 5'5" female Secret Service agent is trying to protect a president that is well over six foot tall. It was Barack Obama that opened infantry combat units to women. The Democrats have tried to transform America since Woodrow Wilson but Obama is the most responsible for speeding up the process. His campaign slogan was that he was going to transform America. In one video before taking office Obama can be heard saying that he was just days away from fundamentally transforming America. This is all the evidence you need that Obama hates America. Why would you fundamentally transform the thing that you love. It would be the same as telling your prospective bride that I am going to fundamentally change you. He hates this country because he and his Democrat colleagues are Communists.
I am very much in favor of Pete Hegseth being confirmed as Secretary of Defense. He is a soldiers soldier and a man of the people. Yes, he has checkered past but after analyzing the circumstances I don't believe that he raped anyone and the Democrats are trying to do what they do best. Destroy peoples character while covering up for their more serious perversions. President Trump must defend Hegseth at all costs. His enemies smell blood in the water with the removal of Matt Gaetz from contention. If he loses another nominee I will lose respect for Trump and begin to question how serious he is about transforming the government. Yes, I do hate the government and love America. I am definitely ready to fundamentally change it and get us back to the Constitution. The establishment Republican's will be the biggest problem and Trump needs to lean heavily on them. He needs to threaten them, coerce them and fight as dirty as they do. Trump knows how to street fight. These same Republican's confirmed a traitorous piece of crap like Lloyd Austin but they can't vote for an amazing guy like Pete Hegseth. We know the Democrats will oppose most of trump's picks and if Trump can't confirm Pete how does he expect to get RFK Jr. confirmed? Pete looks like the Apostle Paul compared to RFK Jr. Let's not forget that our greatest combat general in WW2 George S. Patton had an affair with his niece while in a combat zone. Although Pete denies having a drinking problem Ulysses S. Grant had a problem with the bottle and won a bloody Civil War. As Americans we need to demand the confirmation of Pete Hegseth.
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