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CPT Pedro Meza
CPT Pedro Meza
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Good to see that we are continuing a productive dialogue about women in combat, Cultural norms as Joe stated is what causing us Men in the US from seeing the potential that Women Warriors bring to the fight.
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CPT Pedro Meza
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"Cultural norms" is our worst enemy because the men in our culture are too afraid to change and even to recognize that Women Fighters in today's conflicts are the key to winning. SF fails to recognize that they are doing the same thing that regular ARMY did when SF was born!
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While I'm no fan of Afghan forces at all, The fact they are trying this speaks volumes being outside the house normally the woman would not even look at us directly, and the man would be ready to fight if she did, but in the homes, she RAN a right ship. The man took the back seat there. It's time for the world not just SOF to take women seriously as equals in battle. There are a LOT of BAMF's out there who aren't tabbed or anything "special", but have that intuition and critical thinking ability that rivals any "trained" man. Dammit Bravo Zulu Afghans...now hurry up and do your normal screw up so I can take that back.
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CPT Pedro Meza
CPT Pedro Meza
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In the 1960's when SF was born regular ARMY was opposed and did not see the value of SF, in Vietnam SF faced off against Women Viet Cong, SF/Spe Ops is now treating women in SF/Spe Ops as regular ARMY treated SF back in 1960's.
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SSG Warren Swan
SSG Warren Swan
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CPT Pedro Meza - Interesting. How did SF "feel" after dealing with women on the battlefield? Was there a culture shock being how we're told to protect them, or was the mentality "they're here, they get dealt with"?
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CPT Pedro Meza
CPT Pedro Meza
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SSG Warren Swan - SF of the 60-70 (same ones), learned that the female Viet Cong were deadly and that they could appear any where and were capable of causing extreme harm/death to our soldiers; can't use the words I heard.
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SSG Warren Swan
SSG Warren Swan
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CPT Pedro Meza - I get you Sir.
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