Trump will NOT address the British Parliament

[Sherman8D]

My sentiments exactly, we all know women that are hardcore, but they are the exception to the rule and you don't make a rule for the exceptions. They get paid the same as us and physically are required to do less but that is what passes for equality these days and this is all done for the sake of inclusion. It bothers me because the military is not a social experiment. We also compete for the same promotion slots, but I need to do more than them.

Also my division, the 3rd infantry Division when I served in it had 4 full combat brigades with plans for a 5th, it now has 2 brigades and is being supplemented by troops of the Georgia Army National Guard. Like it or not part time national guardsmen are not of the same quality as regular troops. I served 4 years in the regular army and 1 in the reserves. As the regular army down sized the government planned to use Guard and reserves to fill the man power shortages. Having served in the reserves I can tell you that if our country had to rely on the reserve component we'd be seriously fucked, the reserves are without a doubt the least effective part of our forces and in my opinion not worth their pay.
I did not join the reserves but I was called back into service from the IRR and placed in a leadership position to act as a place holder for a year until the unit could find a Sgt to replace me, I worked for a YEAR in a job that I was untrained for as a military policeman. It is not uncommon in the reserves to have soldiers working in jobs they are not trained to do and as a result of this the reserve component is as a whole worthless.

The president is the commander and chief of the military and as such the buck stops with him, and rather than waste government money the military needs to be taken care of first.

I hope I have done a good job explaining it to you, the current state of our military breaks my heart.

First of all, I'd like to thank you for your service. Secondly, I have thoughts and questions that must be said and answered. You see, I am in the pursuit of knowledge and truth.

Perception of Equality: In general, a person's rate of progress can be determined by measuring one's level of achievement with regards to some endeavor. We must also consider their max potential in that endeavor. For instance, let us consider a female soldier named Patricia and a male soldier named Michael who both have to carry some heavy iron weights. Patricia, has the max potential (determined by height, weight, bodymass) of carrying 8, but currently can only carry 6. Michael, has the max potential of carrying 10, but currently can only carry 7.

Who has done more "work" ? If one looks at it from a superficial viewpoint, he/she would think Michael has done more work because he has carried 1 iron weight more than Patricia. But let us use some cold hard objective math.

6/8 = .75 x 100 = 75%
Patricia has worked 75% of her strength

7/10 = .70 x 100 = 70%
Michael has worked 70% of his strength
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Clearly, Patricia has exerted more work, or effort, in carrying those iron weights by 5% even though Michael produced more output[/COLOR]. This is the reason why it ~seems~ like men do more work than women, and the reason why equality here ~seems~ false. But people are not looking at this the right way.
Ofcourse, these kinds of things only apply to endurance or physical related abilities. Well, actually anything that be reasonably measured and is predictable.

Im not ok with that, but I certainly live with as long as it was equal. Another issue is that in a training environment women are guaranteed by regulation one shower a week, for medical reasons while men are given nothing. I did 28 days without a shower in the Georgia summer its not fun. More than medical its mental being sweat covered for a month is miserable. Its the special accommodations they get that chaps my ass. I was against it, most guys were, you need to understand for better or worse the army seems to be morally and culturally 40 years behind the rest of the country. Even the idea of homosexuals serving openly made me uncomfortable and I was gay and actively fucking other men the the entire time, and I was still like " Do we we need gays in our army?".

By medical reasons, do you mean for menstruating purposes? If so, that is not a "special accommodation," that is a ~reasonable accommodation~. This is similar to what people with disabilities get. A company provides a blind person a braille keyboard so that the person can do the work at the same pace as everyone else --not so they can unfairly outperform others. That's not to say, people can't abuse these required accommodations because people can. But they shouldn't . . .