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Women in foxholes
Gen. Patrick Brady says putting females in combat poses 'an insane 
burden on readiness'
By Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, U.S. Army (Ret.)
World Net Daily
2/18/2013

For many Americans, it is hard to believe that Secretary of Defense 
Leon Panetta could top his statement in defense of the administration’s 
tragic bungling of the terrorists’ massacre in Benghazi: “(The) basic 
principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without 
knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information 
about what’s taking place (The Obama Panetta Doctrine).” But he did top 
it.

In justification of the administration’s policy to put women in 
foxholes, he claimed that women in (direct) combat strengthen our 
military. His statement is a contradiction of every war we have fought 
and the ethos of every warrior who ever fought in those wars. But it 
does reflect the attitude of the commander in chief, disastrously over 
his head in the international arena, a “leader” unable to make tough 
decision who is fearful of risk and does not know the difference 
between a corps and a corpse. He is more comfortable around homosexuals 
and feminists than warriors. Panetta’s statement extolling the 
readiness multiplier of women leading bayonet charges is beyond the 
pale.

Neither Obama nor Panetta has ever served in combat, nor has most of 
Congress. But worse, none of the current military leadership has had 
any serious combat (in the trenches) experience, and it is beginning to 
show.

World War II was won by combat veterans from World War I. In Korea we 
had the veterans of World War II, and in Vietnam the combat veterans of 
both World War II and Korea. The Vietnam veteran won Desert Storm. All 
those warriors and their leadership are gone, and we see a military 
with dismal leadership resulting in unprecedented rates of suicide, 
PTSD and security breaches. We had one high-ranking officer lament that 
the terrorist’s massacre at Fort Hood would damage his diversity 
efforts! Leadership relieved the judge in the trial of the Fort Hood 
terrorist for enforcing military shaving rules on the terrorist – and 
after over three years, he is not tried! And they are calling that 
obvious terrorist massacre “workplace violence,” deliberately depriving 
those killed and their families of deserved benefits.

Unimaginable in our past, we have leaders who consider awarding medals 
for not shooting, and now a medal for risking carpal tunnel syndrome 
that outranks the time-honored Bronze Star for valor. This gaggle 
actually lost graves of our warriors at Arlington Cemetery and are 
attacking the benefits of America’s nobility – our veterans. I don’t 
know where the term girlie men came from, but it perfectly describes 
many in this administration and their military leaders.

After commanding an all-men medical unit in combat, I commanded a 
medical battalion, including many women, in peacetime. These units are 
not direct-combat units but do spend a lot of time on the battlefield 
and are exposed to enemy fire and casualties. But it is nothing like 
the exposure of the grunts in the mud and grime for days and weeks at a 
time.

My rule in the battalion was standards, not gender-governed, except 
where they were already assigned, i.e., medics and mechanics. This was 
during the ’70s, a tough time for drugs and discipline in the military. 
Here is what I found. As a result of competition, my driver and our 
color guard, highly contested duty, were women. The women had less 
disciplinary problems than the men. In administrative jobs, they were 
at least equal to men. But most could not carry their load physically – 
loading litters in choppers, carrying wounded to safety, even lifting 
tool chests. As a result the men covered for them, often causing us to 
use two people when one should have done the job – all of which 
effected readiness. They were not good in the field and became less 
functional when issues of hygiene, and feminine hygiene, literally 
knocked them out and we had to jerry-rig showers, wasting valuable time.

And they got pregnant, which took out key jobs at critical times.

Other sexual distractions, favoritisms, fraternization and assault are 
also readiness disruptions and follow women throughout the military, 
even in our military academies. I had serious problems with wives whose 
husbands shared standby shacks with women overnight. This would go on 
for weeks in direct combat units; think tank crews. Male bonding, 
immeasurable to success in combat, would be damaged. All in all, the 
women pose an insane burden on readiness.

My conclusion, which I passed to my division commander at his request, 
was that I would not want females with me working the battlefield let 
alone in direct combat. I told him I would not want my daughters in a 
unit of half women going bayonet to bayonet with an enemy unit 100 
percent men. Those comments almost cost me my career because my 
immediate superior disagreed, which may explain some of the 
obsequiousness and cowering of military leaders today on this issue and 
a quad-sexual military.

The move to teach our daughters and mothers to kill is defended using 
the same criteria I used in my battalion: standards, not sex-govern. It 
does not work. Most men will not treat women as they do other men – 
thankfully. And there is no intention to do so despite what we hear. 
Listen to our top military leader, Gen. Martin Dempsey: “If we decide 
that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, 
the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the 
secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?” 
Those standards have been set over hundreds of years of combat! We 
should change them to satisfy the crazes of the president’s feminist 
supporters? Imagine how Gen. George Patton and all the leaders who 
founded and secured this country would react to those comments.

I have said, and many men agree with me, that Adam’s rib was the 
greatest investment in human history. Why? Because God then gave man 
woman, a different creature, who complemented him. God did it on 
purpose, and we are privileged to live with the differences. Feminists 
et al., get over it. It is not discrimination to accommodate God’s 
design; it is acknowledging His will – it is wisdom.

Despite “Kill Bill” and other Hollywood visuals of females pummeling 
men, women for the most part are not designed to kill. And they will 
not be good at it. God designed them to produce life and nurture it, 
not destroy it. They don’t belong in the trenches of the NFL or in the 
octagon in Ultimate Fighting; combat is the ultimate Ultimate Fighting 
– and they don’t belong there, either.

It is difficult to teach some men to kill, but they have no choice. 
Imagine a draft and a nation forcing our women into killing units. 
Visualize what will happen to women POWs, not to mention homosexuals, 
captured by our most likely enemies. We have heard of the man who sent 
his wife downstairs to check on a possible burglar (I actually knew 
such a man). We are becoming a nation like that man, a girlie nation.   
      There will always be burglars, (international thugs), most of whom 
are male, and they should be confronted by males.

Why these ridiculous changes? No serous person could believe that women 
in foxholes will do anything but reduce readiness. Just as devastating 
is the formation of a quad-sexual military, which introduces sodomy not 
only to foxholes but military communities – and with it serious health 
and deployment issues. Pregnant females cannot deploy, and some will 
get pregnant to avoid it. Homosexuals cannot give blood and may not be 
deployable. Every warrior is a walking blood bank – who would want his 
son or daughter to receive a blood transfusion from a homosexual? The 
NBA stops a basketball game for a drop of blood because of the threat 
of infection, the Magic Johnson rule; Johnson had AIDS. The battlefield 
is full of blood. Do we think less of our soldiers than the NBA does of 
its players? What will be the reaction when a warrior sees his 
commanding officer dancing and romancing another man – or if he is hit 
on by a homosexual? Yet we are told these changes will improve 
readiness.

Sequestration, designed by President Obama, will, if allowed to kick 
in, emasculate what is left of our military. Aside from the cruel 
impact these budget cuts will have on military careers and families, 
they are perfectly suited to Obama’s isolationist goals. He is a 
rhetorical celebrity dedicated to social issues, i.e. same-sex 
marriage, gun control and government running just about everything. He 
is also a man intimidated by crises and the decisions they require. He 
is a voting-present leader, and we are learning he was not even present 
to lead during the massacre at Benghazi. He apparently hid out during 
the entire event and tried to blame it on a video. What would he do 
during a major 9/11-type crisis? An insignificant military takes us off 
the world stage and requires only voting present in future crises, 
which perfectly suits our present leadership. We can only pray there 
will be no such crises.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, retired from the U.S. Army, is a recipient of 
the United States military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.