Thread by @Jude_Eden

My #thread as a female Marine Iraq vet 👇 #DontDraftOurDaughters
Drafting women, like putting them in combat units, is bad for all: combat, nat’l security, women, and men. That women who *volunteer* for military service can now join combat units doesn’t negate the following: 1/x

It’s not a rights issue. Men & women are equal under constitutional law. It’s about victory in physical warfare. The draft is for replacing massive casualties on the frontlines in a national crisis beyond the scope of our volunteer force. It’s not for support jobs. 2/x

Repealing women’s combat exemption doesn’t repeal biology. Men & women aren’t the same physically. Women don’t have an equal opportunity to survive direct combat against men. Even outstanding women aren’t interchangeable w/infantrymen. 3/x

As it is active-duty women average 2-10x the injuries compared to men even before men’s standards or even harder infantry standards. This means higher liability to units that have to be the strongest, fastest and most ferocious. 4x

And women & men aren’t physically equal performers. USMC’s 3yr $36mil study aimed to prove they were but male teams outdid coeds in 69% of infantry tasks. That was top-performing female Marines against average male Marines. The draft won’t be recruiting top performers. 5/x

Already low standards will be lowered more. Women are also higher-value targets to our enemies for propaganda and much worse. When I served on checkpoints in Fallujah the intel was that insurgents target U.S. military women more than men. The risks aren’t equal. 6/x

To go thru millions of registrants to find the 1 in 10 or 20 women who make minimums but would still have 2-10x the injury risk would be a huge waste for little ROI. It’d be a bureaucratic nightmare in the heat of a national crisis. Disaster for diversity’s sake. 7/x

Many pushing this are the 1st to cut military funding and the types that call us returning vets “the next most likely terrorists.” They don’t care about nat’l security, winning war, veterans or women. They care about woke ideology, gov’t control, federalizing all the things. 8/x

Women like me have always volunteered during wartime & served with honor. We always will & we want our military to WIN against our enemies. Drafting women will mean sky-high turnover in a crisis, reduced effectiveness, & fewer of both men/women coming home alive & victorious. 9/x

Our peer adversaries aren’t putting women in their combat units. They want to be as lethal as possible. We should too. Drafting women for combat would be a terrible policy. Tell your reps #DontDraftOurDaughters U.S Capitol phone: [phone] Congress.gov/contact-us 10/