The recent efforts of the
American military to open combat to women is considered by some to be a a great
step towards gender equality. However, the vast majority of women in the
military, according to a study recently released by the Associate Press, are
not interested in being in combat. “The
Army surveyed its nearly 170,000 women. Less than 8% of who responded said they
wanted a combat job.” The Marine Corp did a study that showed that women do not
have the physical strength and ability to stand the stress of true combat. What
will happen when these women are turned loose to kill men who want to kill
them? If all of this is true, that the Army women don’t want combat, and the
physical realities revealed by the Marine Corp
study show that it is dangerous for a woman to be in combat, is this a
victory for women or something else? And what happens when there is a war with
ISIS, which is very likely, as American planes are fighting ISIS and some
troops have been part of the fighting on the ground. What happens when women
join these troops and ISIS captures one?
The Supreme Court in 1981 ruled
in Rotsker vs Goldberg that women cannot be drafted because they are not accepted for combat. That was then. But now that women are accepted for combat, women
will probably be drafted, and at least, forced to register for the draft. And
if they register for the draft, and there is a draft, there is now no excuse
for not drafting women, as both men and women are fully accepted in combat.
What does this mean to me, a great-grandfather who has daughters,
granddaughters, and great-granddaughters?
I consider mixing of the sexes
especially before marriage a great disaster. Every woman has the right to
escape sexual abuse. But when men and women mix, such as in colleges, men abuse
women. The problem is known and to understand it a huge study has been made
involving 150,000 students at 27 universities nationally. The Harvard Gazette
of September 21, 2015 had a lengthy article where the President of Harvard Drew
Faust, a woman who focused on the study of Harvard students, said the results
were “deeply disturbing.” 72.7 percent of undergraduate women in Harvard
reported an incident of harassment during their time at Harvard. Of the class
of ’15 31% experienced unwanted sexual contact at Harvard. Ninety suffered
unwanted penetration, or rape.
“Nationally, 6.5 percent of
students reported some form of unwanted sexual contact, while 2.4 percent
reported penetration or attempted penetration by force or incapacitation.” And
“More than 150,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at
27…universities across the country took part” in this survey. If so, 3,000
students were raped. And what happens when the men are not Harvard students but soldiers in combat where the biology boils?
Each year, the Defense Department must submit to Congress the status
of sexual abuse in the military. In Fiscal 2014 about half a million military
members were asked to participate in the study of abuse, and 145,300 participated.
(Footnote #5) There were 6,131 reports of sexual assault, which is about four
percent. But note that page six footnote
8 says, “Sexual assault is an under-reported crime. This means the number
of sexual assaults estimated to occur each year vastly outnumbers reports made
to DoD authorities.” If so, the numbers of victims of sexual assault and rape
derived from reports of victim's complaints are actually much higher than the
reported total. If the reported total was four percent, and that was “vastly outnumbered”
by the real victims, how many were the real victims? We are talking about a
disaster in the military. Can a woman be forced by the draft to join the
military? If so, the government is forcing rape, because the military will
never guarantee a woman’s safety in the military if men are around her.
If the government forced women
with a draft and there is sexual abuse or rape, the victim should sue the
government, big time. Okay, so there won’t be money for gasoline for the tanks,
but justice of some kind will be done, and maybe, the draft terminated for
fiscal reasons!
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