Female Deck Officers

[cappy]

###lewis ah again we differ but most women on the front line in any country would kick your ass so quick and hard your question would be answered ...only proven capable would be on the front line .....as for harry you say it was rumoured how the feck can he have protection in a apache heli ...chopping up bad guys .........ps hope your have your ist tenner ready to send to marion in a few days ....love cappy

[Ivan Cloherty]

So who would agree with women as front line troops in the forces fighting alongside there male colleagues ?
No surprise here from me as I would be opposed to that.

Find myself agreeing Lewis, man has it inbuilt into him to protect the female species no matter how capable the female may be, on the ground in a front line situation a wounded male may be neglected (and lost) in order to save an already dead female body falling into the hands of the enemy, it's part of being a human having animal instincts of protecting the weaker (allegedly) sex, although some of the female amazons now walking around could give a good account of themselves.

Female fighter pilots are another contention but as they are flying alone and in charge of their own destiny in their front line operations I cannot see any logicical reason why they should not serve in that capacity and the physial demands are the same, or am I wrong and the same rules should apply. In the Navy onboard ship is again different as most situations are now computer controlled and a woman's brain power and dexterity is equal to her male counterpart and the physical demands are the same

[j.sabourn]

Lewis as I have already said my own views re women on ships. There are no doubt a certain type of woman capable of taking a life as well as a man. Personally myself. I would not like to have as a partner if an infantry soldier as know would still have a feeling of protecting the what I will always call the weaker sex. Thus prohibiting and maybe putting my own capabilities at stake. Maybe the training and phsyco. Corrections to this attitude maybe able to reduce don't know. But I would have an aversion to putting any females life in danger. As said I prefer my women feminine. JWS

[cappy]

many women in afghan shot and killed the enemy ....personally i would in todays world be quite happy with a seving female by my side .....they did shoot and kill many in afghan etc ...women pilots also did the killing bit ...as for the female being caught and raped ...i believe a big fear of the male pilots in the iraqu war was the same as it was used as a method of getting info ...

[cappy]

###jeez there was women in bettys bar in glasgow frightened me and they didnt have a bloody gun ....lol cappy

[Lewis McColl]

###lewis ah again we differ but most women on the front line in any country would kick your ass so quick and hard your question would be answered ...only proven capable would be on the front line .....as for harry you say it was rumoured how the feck can he have protection in a apache heli ...chopping up bad guys .........ps hope your have your ist tenner ready to send to marion in a few days ....love cappy

Morning Cappy new week, let the sparring begin. £10 is on standby as is yours no doubt. I would like to think a fully trained army female would kick my ass these days. But 40 years ago I don't think so as I have a Black belt to the 4th dan in Origiami.

[cappy]

Morning Cappy new week, let the sparring begin. £10 is on standby as is yours no doubt. I would like to think a fully trained army female would kick my ass these days. But 40 years ago I don't think so as I have a Black belt to the 4th dan in Origiami.

###morning lewis well your black belt in origami 4th dan doesnt bother me my missus has a 20th blacker than joe louis dan in arseekickee...cappy

[j.sabourn]

#35... was probably that one we took Down to Liverpool as a stowaway Cappy. Put her in the pilot cabin just off the wheelhouse on the Beechwood. The old man kept on coming on the bridge to see if she was alright. Think he came up to see that I wasn't in the pilot cabin as well. Hood Haggies would have been a good training ground for a Brigade of the D. L. I. Cheers JWS.

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36...is that French food Lewis. JWS

[Keith Tindell]

Very interesting, because 25 years ago all the points being brought up here was almost exactly the argument against women firefighters, would men want to protect them, could they do the job, how would they cope with mangled bodies etc etc, i must admit for a time i had my doubts, but today women firefighters do a good job. I don't have any figures to quote, but i can assure you, at some point women firefighters would have been wearing BA, inside the Grenville tower block and carrying out the same tasks as the guys. Just my take on it, although in my time at sea 50-60s we did not have female crew except on liners, as least that i know of, kt

[cappy]

thats an interesting situation to look at in the case of women and men in danger together keith .....must say i only made that mistake once ...sailing of west coast of scotland with a female astra master yachtee and her husband she was on the fordeck when this large green one apeared as we tried to bring the forsail down......i grabbed her and the mast ...after it was over and we were suitably soaked ...she gave me a dressing down in sailors language about trying to look after her ...but the that was because i did think ah feminine but soon learnt by her retort ...i would truly think that in the armed forces ie infantry the each would look after each other the same .....cappy