Poor babies. They need special boots. (Thanks to George for the story)
Congress is prodding the armed forces to come up with a special line of women’s combat boots, in different styles, as studies show that military women are more susceptible to stress fractures from marching and training.
Or maybe they just can’t handle the same marching and training that men can.
Female troops in Afghanistan have complained to a member of the House Armed Services Committee that they have limited options for acquiring combat boots designed for them.
The congressional move comes as selected women have undergone direct land combat training to determine if they can meet tough physical standards to become an infantryman or a commando. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter predicts that he will open most, if not all, such units to women by Jan. 1.
On the eve of such momentous social and battlefield change, Army women lack boots specially designed for generally smaller and narrower feet, say 10 congressional sources. The Army buys different boot styles for hot and cold weather, mountain and desert warfare and the rain.
Prompted by the Obama administration’s 2013 decision to strike down a ban on women in direct land combat units, a new report by the Armed Services Committee on fiscal 2016 spending says it’s time to feminize the combat boot to increase performance in marches, long hikes and combat.
I hope they come in cute colors as well. Are they gonna also lower standards by not making them carry as much equipment as men? I have nothing against women in combat as long as they can do the same job that men can. Special boots? GMAFB! The problem is they cannot do the same job as men and cannot hack the training required for rangers and other special ops people. I have the same problem with women cops and firefighters. It’s nice that little Ashley want’s to be a fireman but if she can’t haul my crippled ass out of a burning building she has no business in that job. Same with the military. If GI Jane can’t keep up with the weakest GI Joe she has no business being in that unit.
Needing “special boots” is just a symptom of the real problem. The majority of women do not belong in combat. It ain’t sexist if it’s the truth.
They must offer the boots in heels and colors for formal events.
Women doing jobs they don’t have the natural talent for:
I remember some years back , I was moving to a different town for a contract job and as I would be gone for about 6 months , I took my cat with me. The cat didn’t really like riding in my truck so it spent most of the drive pacing back and forth on the bench seat backrest behind my head. At one point I was driving into a highway town after dark, when I got caught up in a police checkpoint. When I finally pulled up to the cop I saw it was a lady cop and she was shaking her arms and stomping her feet to keep warm as it was late November and I guess she was cold though it wasn’t that cold.
It was dark in my rig and she shone her flashlight in as I rolled my window down, and was about to ask me the usual questions when the cat sauntered up to the window to check her out. It startled the lady cop as she wasn’t expecting it and when the cat let out with a big meow , well you wouldn’t believe it ! The lady cop melted on the spot and said in a little girl voice, ‘ Oooh its a kitty !’
She went from being officious to my best friend in the blink of an eye.
I was concerned the cat was going to get out and said as much to the lady cop and she said that it was okay and that I could just go, which I promptly did.
I just shook my head on my way out of there cause she got so caught up in the cat that she didn’t even ask me for registration or ID. In fact she never asked anything related to why they were stopping drivers.
I did notice that the male cop checking cars on the opposite side of the road was taking papers from drivers.
Here’s a prototype for the new, BDU’s :
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/jasen151/KK9134_(1).jpg
😉
Here’s a prototype for the new BDU’s :
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/jasen151/KK9134_(1).jpg
😉
Sorry, but that model can’t be a genu-wine natcherl human bean. A waist that tiny simply cannot nutritionally support a caboose of those dimensions.
Nice chalobies, too. As the commercial from the 50s said, “So round, so firm, so fully packed.”
For a nickel. If she NEVER paid me.
OMFG, I misread the thread title.
I saw: “SPECIAL WOMEN’S BOOBS”
That brought to mind:
http://theshrug.net/holding-a-coke-between-your-boobs-is-the-new-ice-bucket-challenge/
My contention is that women ain’t equal to men ’til their upper body strength allows ’em to raise and lower the toilet seat without complainin’ about it.
It gets worse Denny… http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/04/23/sex-assault-prevention-cadets-army/26235135/