ArmyRanger
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Interesting POV.
I heard a Commander called in to a show and recite about a female soldier who was "built like a bulldog" on his squad, but that in cases of crisis, some of his men still instinctively went out of their way to protect only HER, even endangering their life and their fellow male soldiers. He wasn't happy about it.
From reading most of your posts, you seem like a female who "gets it". You aren't about a political agenda, you call it like it is.
None of my comments or some of the other posters comments is about women bashing as a few posters like to make them out to be. Basically it is the difference between the genders that we all must agree do exist.
Being a field operative myself, you can't look at things through rose colored glasses. To get REAL results, you have to be honest, sometimes brutally honest but honest none the less. The decisions you make not only affects you but others around you. Being an administrator and making decisions from your desk is very different than being in the field.
BOTH the administrator and the field operative can be right in their decisions based on the information they are given. But it boils down to the choices the field operative make that can make a mission successful or not.
For example, you have two squads on patrol in the field, squad A and squad B. They both approach a village that looks like its abandoned. The officer from squad A calls back to headquarters and asks is there any information about this village. Headquarters tells him that the village is secure, it was secured 4 hours ago. The officer calls again to confirm the last transmission. TWICE headquarters confirms that the village is secure. So the officer tells his men everything is ok so they ALL start walking toward the village.
The officer from squad B comes upon the same situation. He also calls headquarters and TWICE they told him the village was secured 4 hours ago. However, the officer realizes that 4 hours is a long time, since headquarters does not have any immediate information about the village, he tells his men to stand put. He tells 2 of his men to go and scout the village and for the rest to stay back and give them cover if need be.
Now, if there is an ambush waiting on them in the village, squad A could get wiped out before they even know what hit them. Squad B, on the other hand, may lose 2 guys but their unit is still there to fight back.
BOTH officers were correct in their decisions but war is unforgiving, you lose, you're dead. It can't get anymore brutally honest than that. In war, there are no second chances, none. The front lines is no place for MEN not to mention females.
The beautiful part about some females being mad and upset is they are ALIVE to be that way. When she is dead, she can't do any of that. The administrators back at their desks don't see that, the field operatives do.