Female soldier on front lines in Afghanistan: "I kinda just like hit the deck and hide and let the boys deal with it. That's kinda...my way of dealing with it."

lowflyingmeat · 2014-11-09T06:17:01+00:00

Your post rips this out of context and would mislead readers to a false interpretation. Did you bother to read/look what this female engagement team is for? To engage females; that is female civilians in afghanistan who would otherwise not be culturally permitted to talk to a male outside of immediate family.

I clicked & watched your video for 30 seconds and found out she is a Marine Engineer RN.

Two minutes of Googling revealed

1. Her role/military job as a Royal Navy Engineer (Perhaps Officer even) boils down to logistics
1. Therefore, shes not in a true combat role
1. She volunteered for the Female Engagement team (Females in conservative provinces in Afghanistan are not allowed to talk to males outside of their immediate family). Her role is talk to/possibly frisk females (thus respecting the local culture)
1. The female engagement team is not really there for combat

Link to Engineering for the Royal Navy http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/skills-and-specialisations/engineering

Link to the Female Engagement team http://www.stabilisationunit.gov.uk/newsroom/534-female-engagement-teams-prepare-for-deployment-to-afghanistan.html

tl;dr Your post is completely wrong and there is zero evidence of gender inequality or some female-male gender relationship exploitation occurring here.

Saturnalia93 · 2014-11-09T05:31:44+00:00

That would've earned you a spot on a scaffold in the Red Army.

favours_of_the_moon · 2014-11-09T05:47:30+00:00

Yeah, it's not because she "hits the deck and lets the boys deal with it."

It's because they don't like girls! Maybe they're "not secure in themselves."

thewrightstuff88 · 2014-11-09T06:17:14+00:00

My issue isn't with women in the armed forces, what really gets me FURIOUS is when feminists are looking to LOWER our standards for training our members in the armed forces. why in the fucking world would i want to make my training program easier so that you could be able to complete it? its hard for a reason and thats what makes our armed forces one of the best in the world.

lowering our standards for training just to allow more women in is fucking ridiculous and feminists will never understand this until war happens and they find out they weren't prepared for combat. war isn't politically correct, bullets don't give a shit about your gender equality

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