Thread by @myth_pilot

Here’s a thread of anecdotes about women in the military. A peek at the actual dynamics behind the “go girl” propaganda. Enjoy.

1. It’s common for Generals to cultivate harems of female staff. Often one becomes “court mistress” and blocks out other staff she doesn’t like.

2. Female commanders commonly become overwhelmed by routine stressful situations. I have had buddies who had to yell at their female bosses to give orders because they went catatonic at breaking down a TOC in a rainstorm.

3. Females breaking down crying on training ruck marches in good conditions. This is common.

4. Females crying when bullets start flying and having to be literally kicked repeatedly to get out from behind cover and advance.

5. Females getting special treatment for basically everything. Preferential admission for schools and training, females being hand-held through Ranger School, females being prioritized for career advancement in order to satisfy diversity targets.

6. If a female gets pregnant, she can avoid deployment. During GWOT there were thousands of women who avoided combat deployment in this way, while their units went on to multi-year extended tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was absolutely endemic.

7. Women destroy toughness and cohesion. First, they can’t perform, so it’s impossible to hold a standard. You can’t haze them. And you can’t haze the men because young guys don’t like being hazed in front of women. Impossible to create a strict relationship environment.

8. On deployment women are (surprise) a constant source of indiscipline. They are always getting mixed up with men and alcohol (even if disallowed). Prostitution rings are not uncommon, often being pimped by a minority NCO.

9. Females have recourse to a whole body of discipline meant to police sexual assaults, but it’s often abused. A common situation at the service academies is for a female to be involved in a consensual relationship, but if caught having sex (which is not allowed on post) she will claim she was being assaulted to escape punishment. Many men have had their lives essentially ruined by their girlfriends in this manner.

10. One unit that I was in had the entire chain of command relived because they had ALL slept with one E4 who had been a stripper before she enlisted. Entire chain from BN CDR on down just one-shotted before they even got to combat.

11. Females in female-heavy units like medical support often start whisper campaigns against bosses they don’t like, filing spurious SHARP complaints in an effort to get their boss fired.

12. This is a fun little one. Female soldiers are notorious for sneaking out the protective plates in their armored vests so they weigh less.

13. Females often abuse the medical system to obtain “profiles” that excuse them from running or marching. One female at one of the service academies was notorious for running competitively every track season, then wearing an orthopedic boot EVERY summer training season.

14. The presence of females in the military has to be supported by endless rounds of training. A lot of time is wasted for this. Many of the trainings bring in civilian diversity consultants which is about what you’d expect. Grad students lecturing to an auditorium of soldiers about toxic masculinity. A waste of time and completely insulting.

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To summarize:
1. Women can’t perform to the required physical standards, compromising performance
2. Women introduce relational problems that compromise discipline, that can never be solved
3. Women are prioritized for better treatment, which destroys cohesion

Women do not belong in the military.

There’s also a larger point to be made. This feminist boosterism rose to the level of strategic significance. We were in Afghanistan for explicitly feminist goals (educate the little girls) and American female soldiers were essentially supposed to be the template that the new Afghan female would look up to. There was a program that embedded women with SF units that was supposed to accomplish this goal. They were supposed to be like Marvel heroes to inspire afghan girls. We saw how that worked out. The afghan army folded and we pulled out in defeat. In retrospect we can see how the supposed success of Obama era girl power integration really led these people to believe they could reshape Afghanistan at will. I hope the tawdry realities of women in combat shared in this thread give you some insight into just how fake that vision always really was, and how inevitable its failure would be.

Bonus Round stories from friends:

16. "The FET (Female Engagement Team) attached to my platoon once wandered off during a patrol, because their E5 NCOIC fancied herself just the same as a maneuver unit, I noticed but it was too late they were inside some house of the village elder, he freaks out and starts yelling because we’d broken social decorum, patrol ends with all their men throwing rocks at us. Miracle this didn’t end up going a different way."

17. "You could always tell which unit was deploying at JBLM because in the morning you’d see a bunch of females with the same PT belts with their unit written on them doing “pregnant PT” around the airfield."

(ie units that were about to deploy were easily identifiable because the women in those units would get pregnant all at the same time)

18: FET teams nothing but trouble, compromise security:

"I’ve got a story. I’m ripping out with the replacement platoon. My guys have already gone back to KAF ready to go home. I stick around and go on patrols for 5 days with the incoming platoon. First day I’m showing them how we do a TCP at one of the afghan police outposts, stopping and searching civilian vehicles. This new platoon had a FET team attached to them, and in the middle of the check point, fully exposed, 3 of the 4 NCOs, instead of monitoring their brand new scared privates on the perimeter, spent the entire op gathered around and flirting with the “cute” FET team. All eyes inward in a little half circle gaggle."

19: No words at all for this one 🤦‍♂️

20. Women getting special UCMJ treatment:

"Here’s my women in the military story. When I was a CPT I PCS’d to a new duty station and was immediately put in charge of a female Puerto Rican LTC in my specialty, which is extremely unusual given that she outranked me by two ranks. It turns out this was due to the fact that she popped hot for cocaine during a UA. She was not kicked out, but did have to submit to weekly UA’s for a year. She made it to week 50 and popped hot again. She still wasn’t kicked out."